Re: [gentoo-user] Call for opinions and/or use cases regarding games.eclass

2016-07-01 Thread Terry Z.
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > Most of us know about the games.eclass history. Let's put that aside; > I'm looking for user consensus on packages that use(d) games.eclass. > > 1. Do you take advantage of games.eclass features, including restricting > game access to a giv

[gentoo-user] Recommendations for a Gentoo supporting/capable VPS besides Linode?

2016-06-19 Thread Terry Z.
, so I'm not in a rush to get off them, but I'd like to see if there are any alternatives people enjoy. Thanks, Terry -- The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth disappeared because of MSWindows?

2015-12-06 Thread Terry Z.
Dell machines have lately started shipping with dual mode hardware. Most notably the i2s and hda modes. The trick is to boot with the right acpi revs and often it requires a cold boot to change mode. On Dec 5, 2015 6:31 PM, "Mick" wrote: > I came across a rather peculiar phenomenon today with my

Re: [gentoo-user] Technical imap mail question

2015-10-15 Thread Terry Z.
It's likely worth noting that while they may resolve to the same point now, there is nothing requiring the IMAP server (reading the mail stored on a server) to match that is the SMTP server (outgoing mail). They are entirely different purposes and protocols which do not need to live in the same pl

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-08-30 Thread Terry Z.
I personally find it beneficial to backup to an online source locally or in an online storage service (as long as encryption incurs etc). DVD are indeed limited in life. You are still better off with other offline storage mediums such as an external hdd or tape indeed. I've found crashplans unli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-29 Thread Terry Z.
So please contribute to the grub2 repo a pull request that meets your requirements rather than complain about it. You are also free to maintain any package you want in a custom overlay in gentoo that packages those requirements. Free software is about preventing lock in and empowering the user. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Terry Z.
On Aug 27, 2015 6:50 PM, wrote: > > > > > >It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is > >simply not supported. > > When a needed functionality is no longer working it is a bug. To have grub installing itself on the MBR when the users does

Re: [gentoo-user] Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-20 Thread Terry Z.
Seeing segfaults in a compile like that makes me question your hardware rather than the gentoo tools. Are you sure your hardware is in a functional state? I update my world fairly often and am running ~amd64 and have not experienced the issue you are experiencing. :( On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:26

Re: [gentoo-user] The state of public relations?

2015-07-25 Thread Terry Z.
In my opinion the installer is the last reason people do not use Gentoo. Look at the other distros out there without a graphical installer. One of them is one of the most popular distros out there. Gentoo experiences a difficulty pulling in more users for many reasons. Firstly there is a large m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The state of public relations?

2015-07-24 Thread Terry Z.
Honestly I would hate to see an installer become necessary. Other distros do not have issues with minimalistic or no installer causing user acquisition issues. What would be nice to see is the current minimal installer updated to support modern hardware (I believe some recent adjustments were mad

Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion doesn't always work with sudo

2014-04-06 Thread Rockinghorse Winner (Terry)
staticsafe wrote: On 4/6/2014 06:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I have a problem where commands preceded by "sudo" are not always auto-completed. This happens with executables that don't have user execute permission. For example, net-analyzer/tcptraceroute installs this binary: -rws--x--- 1 roo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How to make mutt open files by *EXTENSION*?

2012-07-23 Thread Terry
I may be mistaken (away from computer atm) but doesn't mutt use mailcap? I believe I use /etc/mailcap but you could also use per user files, /home/user/.mailcap to adjust your attachment handling. There's lots of guides on the web. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Terry
There are.many good docs on the web about it. Yes much of this is just resistance to change. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello, On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-07-05, James wrote: >> Has anyone seen/t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Terry
Plus you don't technically need a menu at all. You can.use the grub cli to boot whichever partitions you have mind to. Terry Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Friday 06 July 2012 01:18:42 Dale wrote: > >> But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then >

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-01 Thread Terry Eck
Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. I will give gentoo a try to see how it goes. I remember my first attempt at switching from redhat 5.1 to SuSE 6.2 many years ago. Although linux is linux, the different distributions implement and configure the software in their own manner. Terry BTW

[gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-01 Thread Terry Eck
converting. Any words of advice on getting up to speed using gentoo before I install it. Thanks for any advice you might be able to give me. Terry Eck -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) -- 2.6.13-15.12-default -- Sun 10/01/06 1:00pm up 16:53, 3 users, load average: 0.79, 0.54, 0.37 -- gentoo-