Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Nils Andresen
Guys, I feel with you - "I was there", too. But please stop scaring the youngsters. Nils 2012/1/30 Frank Steinmetzger : > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:56:01AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 >> MB hard disk. >> >> (Or maybe 8

Re: [gentoo-user] mono and odbc

2011-08-22 Thread Nils Andresen
Hi, according to http://www.mono-project.com/ODBC the System.Data should contain everything you need (aside from odbc, that is) So you'll need dev-lang/mono (and dev-db/unixODBC or dev-db/libiodbc for odbc) But - are you sure you'll want to do this? Odbc - really? Yours, Nils 2011/8/22 : > Hi.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-08 Thread Nils Andresen
Hi, have you tried "/bin/bash -x your.script.sh" - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen > I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do > not know how to fix it. Please help. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin

2011-04-24 Thread Nils Andresen
Ok, thanks. I'll keep trying then ;-) Nils 2011/4/25 Alex Schuster : > Although I like the idea very much, I never tried this myself. I only know > that Al posted some questions here and told about his plan, and I see that > he wrote the wiki article. > >        Wonko > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin

2011-04-24 Thread Nils Andresen
Alex, have you re-tried lately? I fail during emerging baselayout-prefix. The error is > start-stop-daemon.c:64:4: error: #error Unknown architecture - cannot build > start-stop-daemon Any ideas? Nils 2011/4/19 Alex Schuster : > He was somewhat successful in emerging @system, then he wrote the

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Cygwin

2011-04-18 Thread Nils Andresen
Hi, I kind of stumbled across http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ - sounds interesting... Since there is no "News" after 2003 I did not try to install... (need a vm first...) Does anyone know about the project? Is it dead? Nils

Re: [gentoo-user] What needs x11-libs/libxkbui?

2011-01-25 Thread Nils Andresen
Hi, > equery depends doesn't show anything ... so I followed emerge --depclean's > suggestion and unmerged it.  Have I borked anything? Most probably not. I generally trust --depclean, But I generally follow --depclean's advice and run revdep-rebuild afterwards. > I'm asking this, because it also

Re: [gentoo-user] The new guy

2011-01-20 Thread Nils Andresen
Am 21.01.2011 08:19, schrieb Thanasis: > on 01/21/2011 04:46 AM Neal Hogan wrote the following: >> Am I missing something that indicates the OP is serious? > If you mean the OP is probably *not* serious, I agree ... > Hmm. I only wanted to say "Hi" before my first "real" post. I find it nice when

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Backing up emails

2011-01-20 Thread Nils Andresen
Am 20.01.2011 15:31, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > - Use a Mail-client (thunderbird, kmail,) to copy them across (copy > folder > should work) That has always been my choice, too. Never failed me. Never had more than 1 GB, though. Nils signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] The new guy

2011-01-20 Thread Nils Andresen
Hi, I'm Nils - "the new guy". I have been using gentoo since 2005.0 (or something...) and linux (as THE single os installed) since '98. Im above 30, a bit on the heavy side but I can see my toes when I look down (and bend my head only slightly...) I kind of stumbled across the mailing-lists recentl