Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-12-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote: > ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ... Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically improved. On the other hand: $ time (sudo emerge --sync) [...] real10m3.185s user0m6.331s sys 0m0.575s This is

[gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Yesterday my ~amd64 machine updated python. I ran the python-updater and all seemed well. However, this morning wicd is failing. The first indication was a never-seen-before popup stating "Granted permissions without asking for password" (full text below) I re-installed wicd in case python-upda

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-12-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:27 on Wednesday 01 December 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote: > > ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ... > > Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically > improved. On

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:51 on Wednesday 01 December 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: > Yesterday my ~amd64 machine updated python. I ran the > python-updater and all seemed well. > > However, this morning wicd is failing. The first indication was a > never-seen-before popup st

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:51 on Wednesday 01 December 2010, Allan > Gottlieb did opine thusly: > >> Yesterday my ~amd64 machine updated python. I ran the >> python-updater and all seemed well. >> >> However, this morning wicd is failing. The first indication w

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:46 on Wednesday 01 December 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: > However version 1.7.1 (with the fix) hasn't been released yet. > I am surprised since the released version doesn't work with > python 2.7. > > Should I file a gentoo bug to have them apply the

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails (after python update?)

2010-12-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:46 on Wednesday 01 December 2010, Allan > Gottlieb did opine thusly: > >> However version 1.7.1 (with the fix) hasn't been released yet. >> I am surprised since the released version doesn't work with >> python 2.7. >> >> Should I file a

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-12-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2010 02:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote: ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ... Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically improved. On the other hand: $ time (sudo emerge --sync) [...] real10m3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-12-01 Thread Stroller
On 1/12/2010, at 12:27pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote: > >> ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ... > > Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically > improved. On the other hand: > > $ time (sudo emerge --sync) >

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation

2010-12-01 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 23:16, Alan McKinnon wrote: [..] > *and* to be able to configure > windows so they don;t bounce all over the place when getting focus I knew I read somewhere that was possible.. :-) but failed to disable this annoying thing. Could you guide me through the menu please? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-12-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 17:24:24 Stroller wrote: > On 1/12/2010, at 12:27pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote: > >> ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ... > > > > Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically > > im

[gentoo-user] OT HD video camera & Gentoo

2010-12-01 Thread James
Howdy, I'm going to get myself an HD video camera, that works well with open source software on Gentoo. Problem is (head scratching), I recall when I went through this some years ago I had lots of problems making a decision that worked with linux. I ended up with a Sony DCR-SR42. It works and the

[gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT. Building a rig. Want to get opinions before spending $$$

2010-12-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I'm planning to build a new rig. My current rig is about 7 or 8 years old now and it needs to be updated. Current rig is AMD 2500+ with 2Gbs of ram and a Abit NF7 v2.0 mobo. Couple hard drives too. <> Dale :-) :-) Little update. I caught the case and power supply on sale,