Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:30:23 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > It does, but since you have no reference to cups in make.conf, the > > default is used. Many USE flags are enabled by default in the profile, > > add -cups to make.conf to override this. > > It was garbage like this that finally convinc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

heheh ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is normally cold enough here to not need ice :] An addition to your script Darren ### cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth ### ^^ shamelessly stolen from a g

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

I do not have a solution to your question, but in general there has been some discussion in the press [UK] of late that covered this very issue. The link has some further links that may lead you to your answer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20051124.shtml stu On 25/12/05,

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

* Alexander Skwar schrieb: [traditional vi] > Beats me why somebody would want to use it, though. Experimental archaeology, historical reenactment. It's one of the most successful applications ever. Thirty years after Bill Joy started coding it, people are typing "$> vi ~/.emacsrc" ;-) I just in

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:33:26 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 00 . > Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? > Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast > & adjust over a fe

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

On 24 December 2005 18:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 09:59, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: > > On 24 December 2005 15:49, Dale wrote: > > > Holly Bostick wrote: > > > >Dale schreef: > > > > > > Who is this schreef guy? I'm just Dale. > > > > That's Dutch for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

Great picture. I am always on the lookout for some nice tux wallpaper :-) On 12/25/05, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > heheh > > ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those > Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is > normally cold enoug

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

On 25 December 2005 12:36, Stuart Howard wrote: > heheh > > ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those > Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is > normally cold enough here to not need ice :] Hey, I can assure you that it isn't cold around, but we

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

051225 Ian Hastie wrote: > 24 Dec 2005 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 & 060101 00 . >> Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? >> Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast >> & adjust ov

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:45, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: > On 24 December 2005 18:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Ahh but what would that read in Namibian? > > There is no language "Namibian". We speak over 10 languages here, among > them: Oshiwambo, Otjiherero, English, Afrikaans

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, George Ellison wrote: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ivan Novick schrieb: > >> Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not > >> vim?? > > > > No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. > > But if you d

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005/12/25, Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, George Ellison wrote:> Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> > Ivan Novick schrieb:> >> Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not > >> vim??> >> > No, as there's no normal VI for Linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Merry Christmas!/Hanukkah

On Sunday 25 December 2005 03:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > More than one Jew, I'm sure. And many other religions, I expect. Is > Diwali considered a winter festival? Ramadan has passed already, no? > Others? > > Anyway, happy winter whatevers to all of you. > > M > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Peter w

[gentoo-user] firefox window sizing

Hello everybody, I can no longer see the status bar in my firefox browser. I can't seem to alter the vertical size by dragging the upper right corner of the window down. Horizontal re-sizing works but not vertical. The 'resize' function(rt. mouse click) doesn't do it. X was installed w/o a window

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

On 25 December 2005 15:42, Ernie Schroder wrote: > well then Otatu ku halele okili iwa nodula ipe iwa! The same to you! I am more familiar with the Oshidonga dialect of Oshiwambo. This must be Oshikwanyama. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: 2005/12/24, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] I tried an "emerge -uD world" but get: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-java/sun-j2sdk". (dependency require

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:59:20 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The details are in Appx E : it seems a warning bit is set manually > by the operator of the primary time server during the previous day Seems like I should have looked more carefully. > & one supposes -- hopes (smile) --

[gentoo-user] Errors when emerge is unpacking the source.

When I emerge things I get errors similar to: /usr/share/aclocal/sigc++.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_SIGC run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending%20aclocal /usr/share/aclocal/pth.m4:43: warning: underquoted

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

On 12/24/05, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not talking about wars all over the place. I'm doing my monthly > update on my emergency backup machine. Here's what I've run into. Has > pmidi been deprecated? More than deprecated...removed from portage: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bi

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox window sizing

maxim wexler wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 heathen users 14 Dec 25 08:37 .mozilla/firefox/k6z1oz36.default/lock -> 127.0.0.1:7029 This is Firefox's lock file. It will be deleted automagically when Firefox is shut down. But sometimes, after a crash you will have to remove it manually. -- gentoo-user@ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors when emerge is unpacking the source.

David Harel schreef: > When I emerge things I get errors similar to: > /usr/share/aclocal/sigc++.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of > AM_PATH_SIGC > run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' > or see > http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending%20aclocal > /usr/share/aclocal/

[gentoo-user] is this samsung i-pod-like thing kaput?

Hello everybody, Have a Samsung YH-820, 5-gig USB iPod-like music player. It shows up in lsusb and dmesg. sfdisk lists four empty partitions. Each one starts at cylinder 0 but the last cylinder line just has three dashes '---'. The part indicates 0 cyls, 64 sects, 32 secs/track. O cyls? That's

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

> > It was garbage like this that finally convinced me > to put "-*" at the > front of my USE variable, I've got CONFIG_PROTECT "-*" in my make.conf on a seperate line IIRC to spare me the tedium of accepting manually long lists of default settings when something is emerged. Does this have the

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

At Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:19:27 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not much use telling a native Dutch > speaker to choose Edit=>Preferences=>Composition=>Send Options if their > desktop is not in English, they don't speak English, Really? My (limited) experiences with native dut

[gentoo-user] can't resize firefox window vertically

Hello everybody, My apologies if you've already seen this. I don't think I hit 'send' the first time. I can't see the status bar in my firefox window, it's out of sight below the bottom margin of the screen. Clicking the right upper corner and dragging the mouse only can alter the horizontal size

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | . No you can't. It's either broken or will become broken in the future wit

[gentoo-user] kernel audio config issue

Hello, I have been trying get the right combination of kernel modules selected for building a kernel that allows me to select the output and input hardware via kmix. The machine laptop has an onboard frame grabber: lspci: 02:04.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:08:04 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not talking about wars all over the place. I'm doing my monthly > update on my emergency backup machine. Here's what I've run into. Has > pmidi been deprecated? > Don't think so. And don't run - emaint -f wor

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

Allan Gottlieb schreef: > At Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:19:27 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> It's not much use telling a native Dutch speaker to choose >> Edit=>Preferences=>Composition=>Send Options if their desktop is >> not in English, they don't speak English, > > > Rea

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:38:11 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: > I've got CONFIG_PROTECT "-*" in my make.conf on a > seperate line IIRC to spare me the tedium of accepting > manually long lists of default settings when something > is emerged. Does this have the same effect as in the > USE variable

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 10:38:11AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote > I've got CONFIG_PROTECT "-*" in my make.conf on a > seperate line IIRC to spare me the tedium of accepting > manually long lists of default settings when something > is emerged. Does this have the same effect as in the > USE variable l

[gentoo-user] PPPoA with AVM DSL Cards?

Hi, afaik, these AVM Fritz!Card DSL-cards support PPPoA/PPPoATM, and afaik it is supported by some DSL-Providers. Does somebody know, how to make pppd/capi use PPPoA instead of PPPoE? Thank you Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages?

Richard Fish wrote: On 12/22/05, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 'dev-db/mysqltool' has no ebuilds available 'dev-java/htmlparser' has no ebuilds available 'media-libs/divx4linux' has no ebuilds available What I'm not sure about is how to check dependents and unmerge the t

Re: [gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages?

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:35:06 -0600, Roy Wright wrote: > What had me confused was that there were no ebuilds, and I was thinking > an ebuild was required to unmerge. It is, but unmerging uses the ebuild stored in /var/db/pkg, not the one in /usr/portage. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many radical fe

[gentoo-user] gentoo installer Flags

in the gentoo live cd installer there alot of flags that can be check off how do you know what are the right one to check and what not this is for a older system fic AZ11E board Duron 800 15gig HD 524 mb SD Ram will have KDE yahoo IM Powered by Gentoo Linux" ___

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:33:04 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | > |

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer Flags

On Sunday 25 December 2005 17:47, Ken Robbins wrote: > in the gentoo live cd installer there alot of flags that can be check > off how do you know what are the right one to check and what not this > is for a older system fic AZ11E board Duron 800 15gig HD 524 mb SD > Ram will have KDE yahoo IM The

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer Flags

On 26 Dec 2005, at 1:16, Dan Meltzer wrote: On Sunday 25 December 2005 17:47, Ken Robbins wrote: in the gentoo live cd installer there alot of flags that can be check off how do you know what are the right one to check and what not this is for a older system fic AZ11E board Duron 800... The

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox window sizing

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 08:09:13AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote > Hello everybody, > > I can no longer see the status bar in my firefox > browser. I can't seem to alter the vertical size by > dragging the upper right corner of the window down. > Horizontal re-sizing works but not vertical. The > 'res

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:56:24PM +, Ivan Novick wrote > OK. Thanks for all the replies. > > I will just use vim. Run it as "vim -C". From the vim manpage... -C Compatible. Set the 'compatible' option. This will make Vim behave mostly like Vi, even

Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:28:40PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote > My machine automatically connects during boot, and this works great. > When I shutdown the machine, I get an error that adsl doesn't seem > to run. I have a combined ADSL modem/router that logs on and coverts ADSL into ethernet.

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:12:13PM -0600, John Jolet wrote > and your pick for client-side portable code is??? Client-side code is inherently risky. The website is executing a program on your machine. It's not that much different from allowing people to telnet on to your machine anonymously a

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:12:13PM -0600, John Jolet wrote and your pick for client-side portable code is??? Client-side code is inherently risky. The website is executing a program on your machine. It's not that much different from allowi

[gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

Hi guys, and Holly, :D I'm on dial-up and try to watch my traffic and every once in a while I see a little blip on gkrellm. I fired up ethreal and started to sniff around. Parden the pun there. LOL This is what it says though which is strange. It's really the last two lines that matter b

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

There is a good article on current thinking in Washington Post : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/25/AR2005122500496_pf.html It doesn't mention NTP, but that's implicit in the anti-leap position. -- ,,===

[gentoo-user] ivtv 5.1 From Portage?

It was suggested to me on the MythTV list to upgrade from 0.4 to 0.5.0 or 0.5.1. However after running 'emerge --sync', portage still show 0.4.0-r2 as the latest version. I have it unmasked with the '~x86' in package.keywords so I assume this is the latest version in the normal portage tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv 5.1 From Portage?

On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 21:33 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > It was suggested to me on the MythTV list to upgrade from 0.4 to 0.5.0 > or 0.5.1. However after running 'emerge --sync', portage still show > 0.4.0-r2 as the latest version. I have it unmasked with the '~x86' in > package.keywords so