Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with emerge error msg

2019-03-10 Thread allan gottlieb
On Sun, Mar 10 2019, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/03/2019 00:24, allan gottlieb wrote: >>The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: >> inspector? ( icu ) >> >>The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression: >> python_targets_python2_

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with emerge error msg

2019-03-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/03/2019 00:24, allan gottlieb wrote: The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: inspector? ( icu ) The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression: python_targets_python2_7 inspector? ( icu ssl ) npm? ( ssl ) This seems more seriou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help...can't decipher emerge oracle...

2017-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/11/2017 03:49, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-11-15 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> Why is it trying to install the version? Is that unmasked? >> >> Are you running stable or testing? >> >> What does "grep -r glibc /etc/portage" say? >> >> I don't think you posted the command that star

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help...can't decipher emerge oracle...

2017-11-15 Thread tuxic
On 11/15 05:49, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-11-15 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Why is it trying to install the version? Is that unmasked? > > > > Are you running stable or testing? > > > > What does "grep -r glibc /etc/portage" say? > > > > I don't think you posted the command that

[gentoo-user] Re: Help...can't decipher emerge oracle...

2017-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-11-15 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Why is it trying to install the version? Is that unmasked? > > Are you running stable or testing? > > What does "grep -r glibc /etc/portage" say? > > I don't think you posted the command that started all of this? For some reason, these horrible

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/09/2016 18:39, Grant wrote: >> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via >> shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx >> logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could >> be happening? > > > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Grant wrote: > > I said I was under attack but it was really just an unthrottled and > very greedy bot. fail2ban would have gotten him. But while we're on > the subject, how would you recommend thwarting a DDoS attack against a > dedicated server in a hosted envi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-07 Thread Grant
> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via > shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx > logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could > be happening? I'm blocking like this with the firewall runn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Grant wrote: Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could be happening? >>> >>> >>> I'm bl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-07 Thread Grant
>>> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via >>> shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx >>> logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could >>> be happening? >> >> >> I'm blocking like this with the firewall running on the web

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On September 6, 2016 10:57:54 PM GMT+02:00, Grant wrote: >> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via >> shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx >> logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could >> be happening? > > >I'm block

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/09/2016 22:57, Grant wrote: >> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via >> shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx >> logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could >> be happening? > > > I'm blocking like this with th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-06 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Grant wrote: > > Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via > > shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx > > logs. What you really need is to set up net-anlyzer/fail2ban and not do this kind of stuff manually.

[gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

2016-09-06 Thread Grant
> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via > shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx > logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could > be happening? I'm blocking like this with the firewall running on the web server: /etc/

[gentoo-user] Re: Help! - I cannot emerge anything any more

2014-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/27/2014 01:59 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I am in a very strange situation where I cannot emerge anything any more. > Since it occurs on two different machines it won't be a hardware problem. > > When I try to emerge a package, say portage, it builds it just fine and > starts to in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-21 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 February 2011 04:07:20 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > otherwise my keyboard keybindings do not work. I have also tried the > pointer InputClass outside the xorg.conf file, that is, inside the > xorg.conf.d/ directory. As long as the 10-synaptics.conf file is read > first, the keyboard con

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 10:03 AM, Mick wrote: [snip] > > Have you had a look at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Yes. Got some info there. > > Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it >> exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and >> wired internet config. This laptop ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it > exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and > wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no > wired internet is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 00:25:24 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: > [snip] > > > On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad > > and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the > > synaptics and keyboard input drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] > > On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and > second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics > and > keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it doesn't hurt I > guess). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 February 2011 20:41:42 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I > >> do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I >> do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I >> never wanted to get into making my own udev rule

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >> Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE >> line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. > > You only need "evdev"

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 10:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wante

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 03:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I >>> do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I >

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You only need "evdev". "keyboard" and "mouse" are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore. I been wondering about that but never saw emerge complain so I left it in there, after all, it is working so why try to fix it. I'll r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 01:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] >> >> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" >> >> Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE >> line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. > > You only need "evdev". "keyboard" and "mouse"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 01:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] >>> emerge --depclean -vp >>> Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to >>> the following required packages not being i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> [...] >> I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in >> this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level).  I >> tried startx using the existing

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.con

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Dale
Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried sta

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 08:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen sc

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Vaeth wrote: > > Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of > > /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn > > From the ChangeLog: > > *eix-0.22.1 [...] > - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of > /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help renaming files

2010-04-07 Thread luis jure
on 2010-04-07 at 20:01 Kerin Millar wrote: >It can be done with Perl. i was afraid someone was going to say that... :-) > perl -M'encoding utf8' -MUnicode::Normalize -pe > '$_=NFKD($_);s/\pM//og' that works great, kerin, thank you! no idea though what $_=NFKD($_) might mean... that's fine, i'l

[gentoo-user] Re: help renaming files

2010-04-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 07/04/2010 17:21, luis jure wrote: hello list. i have a bunch of files with accented characters in their names, both upper- and lower case. i want to rename them using the non-accented equivalent. i thought that would be easy to do using something like tr. big mistake. confronted with accent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
change. Copy the ebuild to your private overlay and modify it there to preserve your changes. More details: portage documentation gotten via: equery files portage | grep man > > --- On Mon, 3/29/10, Paul Hartman wrote: > > From: Paul Hartman > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-29 Thread dan blum
If one tries to modify the ebuild and test a change, the system issues a file size error. How do you get around that? --- On Mon, 3/29/10, Paul Hartman wrote: > From: Paul Hartman > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Monday, March 29, 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-29 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Stroller wrote: On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: ... Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this year alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some programs haven't been bumped for 5 years.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this year >>> alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some programs haven't >>> been bumped for 5 years. >> >> That

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: ... Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this year alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some programs haven't been bumped for 5 years. That is true but I don't have a account there. Someone else does so they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-29 Thread Dale
KH wrote: Am 24.03.2010 23:18, schrieb Dale: Alex Schuster wrote: Is there a bug report files already? I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this year alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some program

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-29 Thread KH
Am 24.03.2010 23:18, schrieb Dale: Alex Schuster wrote: Is there a bug report files already? I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this year alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some programs haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-28 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Dale: I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. Is there a bug report files already? I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. If you are like me and don’t w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. Is there a bug report files already? >>> I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. >> If you are like me and don’t wanna create another bug tracker account >> just for on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
KH wrote: Am 26.03.2010 00:24, schrieb Dale: I would have to modify the script since it does random too. If KDE4 isn't broke now, I would surely finish it off if I started writing scripts. LOL I would think it could be disabled somehow but the folks on KDE mailing list couldn't find a way eithe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-26 Thread KH
Am 26.03.2010 00:24, schrieb Dale: I would have to modify the script since it does random too. If KDE4 isn't broke now, I would surely finish it off if I started writing scripts. LOL I would think it could be disabled somehow but the folks on KDE mailing list couldn't find a way either. I even s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dale wrote: Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to be a slideshow but if done

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dale wrote: > Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for > some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of > random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to be a slideshow but if done > in random order, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2010 schrieb Dale: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. I have a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > >> Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm > >> hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be > >> sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Dale
Michael Edenfield wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2010 15:41:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the next version of Xorg (ebuild sitting in some testing proving ground somewhere) will not use hal at all. What will we talk about now on slow news days? $

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:50:08PM -0400, Michael Edenfield wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2010 15:41:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the next version of Xorg > > (ebuild sitting in some testing proving ground somewhere) will not use hal > > at all. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Edenfield
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 15:41:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the next version of Xorg > (ebuild sitting in some testing proving ground somewhere) will not use hal > at all. What will we talk about now on slow news days? $5 says Dale won't get devicekit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to be a slideshow but if done in random order, they make no s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm > hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be > sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to > be a slideshow but if done in random order, they make no sense at all. > All I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2010 21:19:04 Dale wrote: Keith Dart wrote: === On Sat, 03/20, Neil Bothwick wrote: === r maybe he needs help turning off the white text on a white background setting :) === This is the longest thread about nothing that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:16:12PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Alan McKinnon asks: > > > And Dale himself holds the record for starting the longest email thread > > ever outside of UseNet. > > > > It started with ... wait for it ... Xorg and hal! > > > > It makes me just a little bit sad to se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon asks: > And Dale himself holds the record for starting the longest email thread > ever outside of UseNet. > > It started with ... wait for it ... Xorg and hal! > > It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the next version of Xorg > (ebuild sitting in some testing proving groun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 21:19:04 Dale wrote: > Keith Dart wrote: > > === On Sat, 03/20, Neil Bothwick wrote: === > > > >> r maybe he needs help turning off the white text on a white background > >> setting :) > > > > === > > > > This is the longest thread about nothing that I have ever seen.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Dale
Keith Dart wrote: === On Sat, 03/20, Neil Bothwick wrote: === r maybe he needs help turning off the white text on a white background setting :) === This is the longest thread about nothing that I have ever seen. -- Keith Dart You ain't been around here to long then have ya?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
Score 2 points for mr. obvious. :D On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Sat, 03/20, Neil Bothwick wrote: === > > r maybe he needs help turning off the white text on a white background > > setting :) > > === > > This is the longest thread about nothing that I have ever seen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-24 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 03/20, Neil Bothwick wrote: === > r maybe he needs help turning off the white text on a white background > setting :) === This is the longest thread about nothing that I have ever seen. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-23 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:21:06AM +0100, KH wrote: > Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick: > > >> > >> In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who > >> is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) > > > > But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-23 Thread KH
Am 23.03.2010 01:51, schrieb walt: On 03/22/2010 04:21 PM, KH wrote: > ... There even is a tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - > like you once hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to > turn legal again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:47:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > > If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... > > ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. > > > > You sig was sort of ironic considering the subject discussed. That > thing have ESP or something? It does seem like it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 17:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/22/2010 06:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller wrote: I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying it myself, but I re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 22:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: There is nothing unfair about this. No vendor has a *duty* so sell you what you want and they cannot be forced to. Microsoft does not enforce that vendors sell Windows-only machines (and they proved as such to the relevant Commission). .

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 22:51, Mick wrote: ... In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 23:21, KH wrote: ... There even is a tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - like you once hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to turn legal again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are done without installing every

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread walt
On 03/22/2010 04:21 PM, KH wrote: > ... There even is a tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - > like you once hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to > turn legal again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are > done without installing every

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: -- Neil Bothwick If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. You sig was sort of ironic considering the subject discussed. That thing have ESP or something? Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:56:33 +, Mick wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2010 22:00:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +, Neil Walker wrote: > > > The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;) > > > > The Dell Mini 10 I bought was very reasonably priced. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Dale
KH wrote: Oh and all of this started with a email just saying "help". Wander what another word could have done. kh Maybe he should have said PLEASE help. lol Where is the OP anyway? Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread KH
Oh and all of this started with a email just saying "help". Wander what another word could have done. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread KH
Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick: In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft. I'll try run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 22:00:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +, Neil Walker wrote: > > The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;) > > The Dell Mini 10 I bought was very reasonably priced. > > So that deals with the over-priced issue... I did some resea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 22:04:24 KH wrote: > Am 22.03.2010 23:01, schrieb Stroller: > > On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: > >> Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: > >>> TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows > >>> tax on > >>> all of us I had no other option if I wante

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 22:04, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 23:01, schrieb Stroller: On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:00:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +, Neil Walker wrote: > > The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;) > > The Dell Mini 10 I bought was very reasonably priced. > > So that deals with the over-priced issue... The Dell XPS M1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:02:54 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 22 March 2010 21:21:26 KH wrote: > > > Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: > > > > TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread KH
Am 22.03.2010 23:01, schrieb Stroller: On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license agre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:36:59PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2010 21:21:26 KH wrote: > > Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: > > > TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax > > > on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particula

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:21, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:55:34 +, Neil Walker wrote: > The real insanity is buying over-priced crap from Dell. ;) The Dell Mini 10 I bought was very reasonably priced. So that deals with the over-priced issue... -- Neil Bothwick Standard: (n., adj.) a design target which manufacturers may

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 March 2010 21:21:26 KH wrote: > Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: > > TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax > > on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular > > laptop. > > You can refuse the license agreement and give window

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Walker
On 22/03/10 20:33, Mike Edenfield wrote: > "Sure, we'll happily sell you one of three crappy laptop models with > Ubuntu pre-installed, at a slight discount, while bombarding you with > 'Dell Recommends Windows' ads while you shop. What's that? You want a > desktop machine with Linux? Are you i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Walker
On 22/03/10 19:21, KH wrote: > Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: > >> >> TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows >> tax on >> all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular >> laptop. > > You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/22/2010 10:33 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/22/2010 3:40 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this parti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/22/2010 3:40 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote: >> Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: >>> TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax >>> on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular >>> laptop. >> >> You can refuse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote: > Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: > > TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax > > on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular > > laptop. > > You can refuse the license agreement and give window

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread KH
Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular laptop. You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are lucky, the vendor will give you some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Mick
On Monday 22 March 2010 17:05:12 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/22/2010 06:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller > > > > wrote: > >> I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a > >> customer and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/22/2010 06:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller wrote: I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying it myself, but I realised that the inability to copy settings from one profil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller wrote: > > I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer > and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying it myself, but I realised > that the inability to copy settings from one profile or machine to another > is a *complete*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-21 Thread KH
Am 20.03.2010 22:28, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: [...] And people still claim it's Microsoft products that are bugged... :P They call it improvement and not bugfixing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Mar 2010, at 21:28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... So, I had to create a new profile, copy the good stuff over to fix the issue with Seamonkey. Now I can send a new message and it not be blank. I think it annoyed the list but it really got on my nerves. After all, who wants to spend 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-20 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/20/2010 10:46 PM, Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 14:55 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: or maybe he's using Seamonkey, like Dale :-) :-). Hey! What's wrong with seamonkey? I upgraded from Seamonkey 1 to Seamonkey 2. I let it copy the s

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