On 16 April 2012 11:48, Markus Kaindl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> did you try, if your DELL is supported by libsmbios?
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_BIOS_Upgrade
>
> Worked for me on 3 DELL-Computers (1 Desktop and 2 Laptops).
>
> Markus
>
Please link people to the maintained version of the wiki, not t
On 28 February 2012 11:37, trevor donahue wrote:
> In situations like this I start deleting
> /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even a revdep-rebuild
> to fix something, but even then I'm left with no more then 100 mb, which
> obviously is not enough ...
Lots of good advice a
On 27 February 2012 23:29, Robin Atwood wrote:
> I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from
> release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo, it
> looks like it got reorganised some time after version 3.0.0 and lots of
> options were no longer
On 28 February 2012 00:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2012 23:29:35 Robin Atwood wrote:
>
>> "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
>
>> Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
>
>> from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kip
On 26 February 2012 17:00, Dan Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2012 13.43:13 Dan Johansson wrote:
>> On Sunday 26 February 2012 10.52:58 Willie WY Wong wrote:
>> >
>> > You guys are almost certainly running into the same problem as the one
>> > I mentioned in the thread I just started.
>>
On 27 February 2012 14:27, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 27.02.2012 15:04, schrieb Claudio Roberto França Pereira:
>> I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of
>> the book there is an about the author section that mentions two
>> contact addresses: one is an email, the othe
On 26 February 2012 17:10, John wrote:
> On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>
>
>
>> Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to
>> download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available
>> methods, it's the most recent. But beware th
On 23 February 2012 21:29, Grant wrote:
> [snip]
>
> I'm amazed but disconnecting and reconnecting the IDE and power cable
> fixed it. Which is your favorite tool for testing a HD's integrity
> with and without S.M.A.R.T. support?
[I] gnome-extra/gsmartcontrol [1]
Available versions: (~)0.
On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood wrote:
> I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE 4.8.0
> and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop it was
> running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ libraries have changed
> substantially
On 19 February 2012 23:08, Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Hartmut Figge:
>
>>But first i should look into that ominous xdg-open.
>
> 'man xdg-open' didn't help much, but xdg-open is part of xdg-utils. And
> there is e.g. xdg-settings. Looking into 'man xdg-settings' and then
>
> hafi@i5_64 ~ $ xdg-setting
On 18 February 2012 05:45, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Walter Dnes writes:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote
>>
>> > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one...
>>
>> I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case
>> it was a 4+ year old Dell wi
On 17 February 2012 20:47, Grant wrote:
> LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some
> little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD?
> Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always
> come back to:
>
> Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT diske
On 16 February 2012 09:10, András Csányi wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have been googling for a while to find the answer for the question
> how on earth I'm able to set up the default keyboard layout of slim,
> but I haven't find any answer for this.
> A few articles say that if the keyboard layout is
On 12 February 2012 08:51, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to play a mkv movie that is encoded with x264 720p.
> The movie get out of sync very quickly.
> I tried some suggestions in the gentoo forum, but they didn't help.
> It seems unreasonable to me that my cpu Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU
> M
On 12 February 2012 00:11, Alecks Gates wrote:
>
> On Feb 11, 2012 6:54 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote:
>>
>> So I've got Inara in position to be my HTPC box. Tried installing
>> MythTV, but I can't make heads or tails of how to have it do the
>> things I'd like it to do:
>>
>> * Play DVDs inserted into
On 9 February 2012 17:00, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's the first time I have to set up a wireless network on a notebook.
Save yourself some hassle and use either wicd or NetworkManager - both
wrap wpa_supplicant, and make for a much smoother mobile experience.
On 5 February 2012 17:19, James Broadhead wrote:
> On 5 February 2012 17:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 02/05/2012 06:02 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>>
>>> In short, both GStreamer and VLC can do anything that Xine do, and
>>> they probably do it
On 5 February 2012 17:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/05/2012 06:02 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>
>> In short, both GStreamer and VLC can do anything that Xine do, and
>> they probably do it better. If something is not working properly, it
>> probably is a problem with the integration wit
On 2 February 2012 15:34, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that
>> required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They
>> said it recognized the change in the serial numbers.
On 30 January 2012 13:09, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
>> actually work:
>>
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
>From the comments:
Barry Kelly: "Win95 Setup *does* make the floppy drive grind, tho
On 26 January 2012 16:18, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> Within our dataset of visitors, one in 0 browsers have the same
>> fingerprint as yours.
>>
>> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
>> conveys INF bits of identifying information.
>>
>> I think I broke it. I wi
On 23 January 2012 20:55, Daniel Troeder wrote:
> On 23.01.2012 01:00, Philip Webb wrote:
>> During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1
>> is now "testing", while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in "stable".
>> I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago,
>
Ok, looks as though it's time for a manually-installed version of
python to upgrade portage, then a portage-installed python:2.6 to
bootstrap your way towards modernity.
This is all explained here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
This may also help
http://for
On 21 January 2012 04:48, Grant wrote:
> # emerge -avDuN system
> [snip]
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-auth/pambase-20081028" have
> been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - sys-auth/pambase-201010
I think that that last post might be a little misleading for a new
user, I'd just like to clarify it a little bit.
On 18 January 2012 15:23, Fernando Freire wrote:
> I've installed other distributions of Linux before on a MacbookPro and
> have found that installing GRUB to the boot record of sda
On 16 January 2012 19:51, Hartmut Figge wrote:
> walt:
>
>>Oh, I forgot shotgun v.2 :) When faced with something as complex
>>as libreoffice I usually create a brand new user account and try
>>running it from there, to rule out breakage in my home directory.
>
> Fine to know about this. :) But...
I have a pile of files, and a personal svn repo totalling around 13GiB
which I want to back up to cheaply to 'the cloud'. I would also like
it to be non-trivial for someone with access to the cloud servers to
decrypt my data.
I have a 50GB free account for Box.net, but would consider others if
th
On 22 December 2011 15:41, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2011-12-20 11:00 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
>>
>> You should probably also restrict which files can be edited (not
>> /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow or /etc/sudoers, for sure!). You can do this
>> with globs. For example:
>> %sudoroot sudoedit/var/
On 2011-12-13, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:03:32AM +0000, James Broadhead wrote
>
>> So on returning to this machine, I see that another USB disk that I
>> have connected to it is also having those messages printed about it.
>> This leads me to suspect
On Dec 13, 2011 12:25 a.m., "Paul Hartman"
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:03 PM, James Broadhead
> wrote:
> >> Does it happen to be a >2TB USB drive? I remember reading about
> >> problems with some of those. It works in Windows with the factory
>
On 12 December 2011 23:52, Indi wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 03:40:02PM +0100, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> On Dec 10, 2011 8:50 PM, "LinuxIsOne" <[1]linuxis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ((No wonder NASDAQ uses Gentoo for its infrastructure))
>>
>
> Indeed
What a bunch of ricers :P
On 12 December 2011 20:55, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, James Broadhead
> wrote:
>>
>> Apologies; the correct message is:
>> grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744072382021139 for device
>> sdb1
>>
>> This ap
On 12 December 2011 14:14, James Broadhead wrote:
> ext4: "fill_buffer on unknown block out of range"
Apologies; the correct message is:
grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744072382021139 for device sdb1
This appears 42 times immediately following mount.
Running pic
ext4: "fill_buffer on unknown block out of range"
I have seen a number of these appearing in my dmesg recently for a
new-ish external disk. I'm afraid that it's a paraphrase, as I am away
from the machine at present.
ckfs.ext4 -f comes back clean and smartmontools reports nothing out
of the ord
On 11 December 2011 21:42, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 01:10 PM, James Broadhead wrote:
>>
>>
>> I didn't take this email at face value when I read it earlier, but I
>> just merged my openrc-0.9.7 config file.
>> Wow, what a cynical move.
>
On 11 December 2011 10:41, Andrea Conti wrote:
> On 27/11/11 16.36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> sys-apps/openrc-0.9.6 is just... gone? Not even masked, but completely
>> gone from portage.
>
> FYI, sys-apps/openrc-0.9.7 is out.
>
> Apparently, the solution to the rc_parallel issues was to remove
On 9 December 2011 12:44, Mariusz Ceier wrote:
> w3m,links and elinks. w3m and links as they support displaying images
> under framebuffer, and elinks for it's javascript support.
> If you don't need these features, any text browser is good for
> browsing html documentation :)
Not too long ago, I
On 8 December 2011 15:10, LinuxIsOne wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Don't take our word for it, go look for yourself.
>
>> I could give you examples of how that forum works, I could give you
>> links that show what we are saying, but NOTHING can prepare you for
On 8 December 2011 14:41, Jarry wrote:
> On 08-Dec-11 12:26, James Broadhead wrote:
>
>>> I do not want to upgrade to baselayout-2, but I want to
>>> re-emerge system. So how can I do it now, when all 1.x
>>> versions have been removed from portage?
>>
&g
On 8 December 2011 14:25, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, James Broadhead
> wrote:
>> Especially in the past, they have allowed their political views on
>> Open Source / Free Software to interfere with the best user
>> experience[3].
>&g
On 7 December 2011 15:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2011-12-07, Stroller wrote:
>>
>> On 6 December 2011, at 23:25, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> ...
>>> The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of
>>> wrong answers posted by people who didn't understand the question.
>>
>>
2011/12/8 Lavender :
>>I maintain http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon , which should sort you out.
>>
>>If not, please post again & I'll update the article to be more helpful.
>>
>
> I'm sorry, cause the policy of Internet in my country, I can't open the
> webpage.
>
> Could you send it to me or
On 8 December 2011 11:17, Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded gcc and after switching to the new version
> I want to update system too. But it wants to emerge
> baselayout-2 as dependency of system:
>
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/baselayout" have
> !!! been masked. One of the
2011/12/8 Lavender :
> I'm being working out with building KDE environment recently.
> Now I need installing Xorg first. As the
> says,
> if I use radeon card ,then I need emerge radeon-ucode or linux-firmware
> package.
> Then I need rebuild my kernel with External firmware blobs . My video card
On 8 December 2011 06:57, LinuxIsOne wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Stroller
> wrote:
>
>> I tried Ubuntu, hated this *so* much.
>
>> I'm sure all the respondents were just trying to be helpful, but they made
>> Ubuntu look like the distro of idiots.
>
> How do you say like this? Can
On 29 November 2011 23:17, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new
> TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm
> wondering what the process is to switch the audio & video output of my
> laptop the its HDMI port? I'
On Dec 1, 2011 3:32 p.m., "Frank Steinmetzger" wrote::
>
> I used to get stuck in vi, but at some point I asked a friend to give me a
> proper introduction and now ...
Now you're _completely_ stuck!
On 1 December 2011 10:55, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote:
>>
>> On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote:
>> > ...
>> > I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I
>> forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I
>> hav
On 20 November 2011 20:09, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:58:22 +
> James Broadhead wrote:
>> Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' of CFLAGS and USE, it would be nice
>> if it would use that information (roughly) to determine how much
>> space to c
On 26 November 2011 08:00, Stayvoid wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I have some fonts which are not included in the repository.
> How can I install them?
>
> Cheers!
Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts
Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME}
AMAZING: Cop
On 26 November 2011 00:28, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
> Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd?
I see that you have tried the SysRescueCD - have you tried the vanilla
Gentoo LiveCD? I find that it is usually pretty resilient.
In the past, I've found enabling legacy_ide mode helpful
On 22 November 2011 10:45, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> The 22/11/11, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > You seem to miss the fact that you are using gsed instead of sed.
> >
> > using -r makes scripts non-portable.
>
> You seem to miss the fact that the OP didn't asked for a portable script
> and didn't
On 21 November 2011 18:51, Dale wrote:
> James Broadhead wrote:
>
>>
>> Finally: You probably don't need the MAKEOPTS flag at all - try updating
>> vim without it. ( `emerge -u vim` )
>>
>> That about covers it ;)
>>
>>
> And don't
On 21 November 2011 15:00, 1990 dqgcs wrote:
> Hi Mick
> Here is my output ,Thanks for help!!!
>
> ***
>
> .-(~)-(ayu@Freedom
> )-
> `-->
On 20 November 2011 18:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:07:33 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>
> > Ok, then I'll narrow my guess to the size required being dependent on
> > USE flag combinations.
>
> Also CFLAGS and architecture, to a lesser extent.
Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' o
On 17 November 2011 09:07, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently
> manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make
> automounting possible?
>
> According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my
> system. I
On 17 November 2011 08:56, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
+1 for dropping kdepim. I used to love kaddressbook and kontact (but a
lot of that was enthusiasm about features that "were just around the
corner"). I found that I was having consistent problems keeping my
contacts between versions (fortunately,
On 16 November 2011 08:55, Dale wrote:
> Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
>>
>> On 11/16/2011 09:23 AM, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe check if there is a BIOS update available? Might be worth a shot.
>>
>> I already upgraded the BIOS to have the dual-core CPU recognized,
>> otherwise the kernel would not even
On 16 November 2011 08:42, James Broadhead wrote:
> Your user should be in plugdev, with the mountpoiny rwx by plugdev. I have
> root:plugdev rwxrwxr-x.
Oh, and run ifuse as the user, not as root :)
/ebooks).
I needed ifuse & libimobiledevice from git for my updated ipad1.
On Nov 13, 2011 5:06 a.m., "Mark Knecht" wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:14 PM, James Broadhead
> wrote:
> > As for native support, it looks as though Apple have updated their
> > protoc
On 10 November 2011 19:25, wrote:
> I have a 5 year old Mac OS X laptop which died last night -- no lights,
> nothing, as if the battery
> and AC line were disconnected. There's nothing on it which is a disaster to
> lose, but there are
> some things I'd like to get off. Is it possible to plu
On 9 November 2011 20:43, Aljosha Papsch wrote:
> 2011/11/9 Nikos Chantziaras :
>> What's happening with the kde overlay? All "Manifest" files are gone and I
>> can't emerge anything because of that.
>>
>
> The overlay uses new Manifest format. Read the blog entry:
> http://dilfridge.blogspot.com
As for native support, it looks as though Apple have updated their
protocol, so if you've a new i*, or have updated recently, then the
in-portage versions of ifuse and libimobiledevice won't work - I've
just gotten my updated iPad working with current git versions of both
however.
I've also been w
On 9 November 2011 17:09, Michael Mol wrote:
> I'd like to have the Handbook in a format convenient for reading in
> ebook readers.
>
> Now, I know I could take the existing HTML files and convert them, but
> I think it'd be nicer if I could get the handbook maintenance scripts
> to automate a con
On 9 November 2011 17:36, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A better method to review code?
>
You seem to be talking about doing a few different things, none of
which is _quite_ what I'd call a code review.
What you're currently doing makes sense if you're interested in
finding out what some code does b
On 6 November 2011 17:23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 06:16:59 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> I hope anyone reading who doesn't donate will at least consider
>>> donating.
>>
>> I used to9, but I'm no longer allowed to. In the
On 6 November 2011 16:45, Grant wrote:
>>> Does anyone know if open-source video drivers like radeon use the
>>> different GPU's in different cards differently? Maybe not and there
>>> is just a flat identical acceleration for all of the radeon cards?
>>
>> The GPUs are different, so yes, the dri
On 5 November 2011 19:45, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Saturday, November 05, 2011 04:48:54 AM Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
>> > On Friday, November 04, 2011 06:03:55 PM Mark Knecht wrote:
>> >> 2011/11/4 Jorge Martínez López :
>> >> > Did you instal
On 2 November 2011 01:17, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here
>> is the info:
>>
>> SNIP
>>
>> What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel handy
>> just in case.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :
On 31 October 2011 10:58, Dale wrote:
> James Broadhead wrote:
>> # Use 8MB input cache by default.
>> cache = 131072
>
> I have the same here too. Like minds maybe? o_O
I _think_ that it's the highest power-of-two that mplayer will allow
... so maybe not.
On 31 October 2011 09:13, Willie Wong wrote:
> When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1,
> mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all
> other mouse devices.
>
> On the console I want to use gpm to get a pointer, but gpm can only
> take one MOUSEDE
On 30 October 2011 15:29, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 30 Oct 2011 13:32:26 James Broadhead wrote:
>> I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet
>
> I have ...
Oops, sorry! I was reading the thread on my phone, and must have missed it.
JB
On 27 October 2011 09:15, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm wanting to get a hard drive that is pretty good size. I'm looking for
> about 1 to 2TBs or so. Thing is, a lot of them seem to be 5900 or even 5400
> rpm drives. I realize that the data on there is packed pretty tight so I
> want to ask a f
On 29 October 2011 01:03, Michael Mol wrote:
> Is this incorrect? Does it qualify as a bug?
Yes. The ebuild should respect your CFLAGS unless there is a USE flag
to enable/disable them. The counter to this is when a package won't
build without specific flags, then disregarding the user is okay.
S
On 27 October 2011 20:35, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Jarry wrote:
>> Hi, perhaps someone could explain this to me:
>>
>> I have bouth two the same hard-drives. The same model
>> (Hitachi HUA722050CLA330), the same firmware (JP20A3EA),
>> the same size (500GB). Well, no
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet - loads of lib
exploits allow system access, and there's a pretty solid argument that says
that compromising a user account on the average *nix system allows enough
resourses to do a lot of malicious activity without even needing privilege
escala
2011/10/23 Lavender :
>>First use modules. This post [1] from the forum is about the mic but
>>it walks you through the process of setting up sound pretty well.
>>HTH David
My reading of those errors implies that you might have an alsa config
file left over which is confusing mplayer. Make sure th
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet - loads of lib
exploits allow system access, and there's a pretty solid argument that says
that compromising a user account on the average *nix system allows enough
resourses to do a lot of malicious activity without even needing privilege
escala
On 15 October 2011 23:44, CJoeB wrote:
> (...)
If this is your first install, is FrameBuffer (pretty consoles) really
a vital component of getting your machine up and running?
If not, then you should not have any fb driver in your grub.conf (and
perhaps add 'nofb' to your kernel options line.
I
On 4 October 2011 13:21, Alex Sla <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> i got a problem build gconf. The problem is somehow emake again o.O
emake is merely a wrapper around make - that line means that there was
a compile failure.
Thanks for attaching your build log, but please try searchi
On 3 October 2011 01:42, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> foo
It's possible that you would prefer zsh's completion style and configurability.
On 2 October 2011 07:06, Canek Peláez Valdés
wrote:> emerge --changelog -p blah?
Oh wow. I'll be using that a lot from now on.
If only I'd read the portage changelog to find out when they added
this feature :P
On 26 September 2011 20:29, Jonas de Buhr wrote:
>>> between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a cracked
>>> boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least
>>> initially
>>
>>And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will
>>surely find out
On 26 September 2011 20:44, Michael Mol wrote:
> Yeah, I just saw that. Admittedly, when I saw this section:
>
> --begin-section--
>
> I'll add at this point that this isn't just a programmer problem. I've
> seen entire companies get locked into the idea that “perfecting” the
> program was everyth
On 26 September 2011 16:49, pk wrote:
> ...but don't take my word for it... If you really need to know for sure
> - contact a lawyer[1].
>
> [1] IANAL :-)
If you were, would you give your opinion freely on the internet?
`s/would/could`?
Since our system is set up so that one can spend significan
On 26 September 2011 16:26, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will
> surely find out a way.
Oh, I don't doubt that I'll be able to boot Linux, I just think that
we're going to enter another era where setting up a functional and
easily-switc
On 26 September 2011 16:01, Mick wrote:
> I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into UEFI
> boot what are the workarounds to compensate for Microsoft's efforts to
> exclude other operating systems from available hardware?
My opinion is that signed boot is probably on its wa
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio
> Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google
> (... )I didn't even know there was a better way of managing wireless networks!
This is exactly the problem.
I'm working on rewriting the Handbook's page on setting up wifi, but
I'm going to need some t
On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman wrote:
> Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd.
Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.conf for you (in
effect), has been the right way of configuring wifi for the average
user for years now. It's a real shame t
On 25 September 2011 03:15, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> It's stunning to know that something that's shipped by default with
> Ubuntu sucks so much? Canonical surely must have gone haywire.
It wouldn't be the first time that they've effectively tested software
by pushing it out to their user-base
On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in
> `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something?
What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or having
*tried* to use it).
Once you have, you will see why no o
On 19 September 2011 15:22, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> :-) Example:
>
> Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to
> display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org.
>
> And forget all about playing music.
As requested: http://i.imgur.com/WbQHa.jpg
On 6 September 2011 19:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> The support for lpr exists. It's being removed, for some reason. Given
> that printing works by constructing a postscript equivalent of the thing
> being printed, just how difficult can it be to squirt this postscript
> down lpr rather than the
On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage,
>> once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD
>> Priority: Stable (i.e., less chance of corruption), least CPU usage.
You would have to p
make.config != make.conf
:)
On 18 August 2011 12:45, Norman Rieß wrote:
> CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2 -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse"
Yes, those work out to the same set as I posted -- the major
difference is that I have USE="gtk gcj", which along with the
additional load probably accounts for the discrepancy. I also have
-j5.
JB
On 18 August 2011 09:23, Norman Rieß wrote:
> Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel:
>> Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc?
>>
>> - Matt
>
> Atom:
>
> genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
> * sys-devel/gcc
>
> Sat Feb 26 13:06:08 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
> merg
On 16 August 2011 01:28, Adam Carter wrote:
> "Linux also offered financial firms the ability to modify the source
> code to further speed performance, Lameter said. "It depends on how
> daring the exchange is," Lameter said, noting that NASDAQ uses a
> modified version of the Gentoo Linux distrib
On 15 August 2011 09:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun 14 August 2011 19:55:28 Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly:
>> On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> emerge --sync
> layman -S
> eix-update
$ man eix
(...)
/etc/eix-sync.conf
This file stores commands and configurations to apply
> On 08/12/2011 12:58 PM, dhk wrote:
> I have a Gentoo Box that is a standalone with no internet access. Is
> there a way I can update it by using my laptop?
My immediate response is that a PCI/USB wifi card costs less than the
combined brainpower that you have had respond to this question.
My a
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