[gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-01 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Debain everywhere... Ubuntu everywhere... "To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this and apt-get that...your done". Hrrrmpppfff What the heck is "build-essential?" What's hidden behind it? I am currently facing a similiar problem: I am trying to get a TFT disp

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 1 November 2014 17:19:18 WET, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > One useful feature for me is that grub2 will boot from an ISO image, > I > > always keep system rescue cd image in /boot. > > We all have our own ways of doing things. My eq

[gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-01 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:47:15 +0200, Alan Mckinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits" (in <545546d3.3030...@gmail.com>): > On 01/11/2014 19:59, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [snip] >> Ah

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/11/2014 19:59, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > James [14-11-01 18:16]: >> gmx.de> writes: >> >> >>> I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits >>> are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, >>> which I think is not the best way to do that. >> >> Hello Meino, >> >> It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-01 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Nov 1, 2014, at 19:26, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 01/11/2014 19:15, James wrote: >> gmx.de> writes: >> >> >>> I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits >>> are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, >>> which I think is not the best way to do that. >> >> Hello Mein

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-01 Thread meino . cramer
James [14-11-01 18:16]: > gmx.de> writes: > > > > I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits > > are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, > > which I think is not the best way to do that. > > Hello Meino, > > It's a bit of effort, but the world's recognized authority

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/11/2014 19:15, James wrote: > gmx.de> writes: > > >> I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits >> are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, >> which I think is not the best way to do that. > > Hello Meino, > > It's a bit of effort, but the world's recognized aut

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: > One useful feature for me is that grub2 will boot from an ISO image, I > always keep system rescue cd image in /boot. We all have our own ways of doing things. My equivalent to that is to have a small rescue system in its own partitio

[gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-01 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits > are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, > which I think is not the best way to do that. Hello Meino, It's a bit of effort, but the world's recognized authority on algorithms is Don Knuth. [1] He's old now

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-01 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 11/01/2014 05:47 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel > wrote: >> You guys should check out the ELK stack: >> http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/ >> >> Basically, transform logs to JSON with logstash, throw the JSON into >> elastic search, and make plo

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 1 November 2014 11:19:58 WET, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2014 20:26:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On 31 October 2014 16:16:33 WET, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > > On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This

[gentoo-user] Re: cookie_monster

2014-11-01 Thread James
Walter Dnes waltdnes.org> writes: > It varies by OS and browser. See... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_shared_object#File_locations for a > list of locations. All very good to know. Thx, James

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 October 2014 20:26:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 31 October 2014 16:16:33 WET, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely > > > > caused > > > > > by some changes in used

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > You guys should check out the ELK stack: > http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/ > > Basically, transform logs to JSON with logstash, throw the JSON into > elastic search, and make plots with Kibana. We use it at work; it's > absolutely