Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, > which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't > make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s). The load balancing technology will be slow to respond if the TTLs are h

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, >> which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't >> make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s). > > The load bal

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

On 05/19/12 04:13, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >>> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, >>> which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't >>> make sense, but some sites like twitter

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

Willie Matthews wrote: > > > On 05/19/12 04:13, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter wrote: Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't make s

[gentoo-user] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.19 | "there are files installed outside the prefix"

This error seems to be from the ebuild script side of things, as far as my quick research into the error messageI'm on a PowerBook G4, with Gentoo Prefix installed. Is the problem the trailing "/" in the DESTDIR command? >>> Emerging (3 of 19) app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.19 * build-do

[gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

Hi all, Is there a way to change the "volume" of a mp3/vorbis track? By volume, I'm referring to lining up several tracks on your computer/phone/tablet/thingy, setting the one volume level and then letting them play. For example, the first track will be quiet, of all ironies my Led Zeppelin t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

On May 19, 2012 7:00 PM, "Andrew Lowe" wrote: > > Hi all, >Is there a way to change the "volume" of a mp3/vorbis track? By volume, I'm referring to lining up several tracks on your computer/phone/tablet/thingy, setting the one volume level and then letting them play. For example, the first

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

Nice! I will have to go and try that one soon. On 05/19/12 05:22, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On May 19, 2012 7:00 PM, "Andrew Lowe" > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > >Is there a way to change the "volume" of a mp3/vorbis track? > By volume, I'm referring to lining up sever

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Willie Matthews wrote: > > > On 05/19/12 04:13, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter wrote: Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:58:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Sorry for necro-posting, but I wanted to “add my mustard”, as we say over here. > > > Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT? > > > > Your guess is as good as mine! > > […] > > Perhaps the ability to hear the computer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 07:54:10PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Is there a way to change the "volume" of a mp3/vorbis track? By volume, > I'm referring to lining up several tracks on your > computer/phone/tablet/thingy, setting the one volume level and then > letting them play. Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

On 05/19/12 20:22, Pandu Poluan wrote: On May 19, 2012 7:00 PM, "Andrew Lowe" mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: > > Hi all, [snip] ... ... ... [snip] What you're looking for is called "replay gain" (alternative spelling, "replaygain"). Basically, it's a two-step process : (1) analyze the 'eff

Re: [gentoo-user] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.19 | "there are files installed outside the prefix"

hello daniel, please report a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/ about it. thanks, sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

On 05/19/12 04:54, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Is there a way to change the "volume" of a mp3/vorbis track? By > volume, I'm referring to lining up several tracks on your > computer/phone/tablet/thingy, setting the one volume level and then > letting them play. For example, the first track w

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

On May 19, 2012 6:46 PM, "Dale" wrote: > > Willie Matthews wrote: > > [le snip] > > > > You should really try changing you DNS server to some faster ones. I was > > having this same problem with my ISP or DSL modem with built in router > > taking a long time. I changed my DNS servers to Google D

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and all? At least, "equery uses " *does* work with uninstalled packages. (However, "equery files " does not.) -Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

On Sat, 19 May 2012 07:45:56 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > Hi, > > Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using > pdns-recursor, which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set > minimum ttl (doesn't make sense, but some sites like twitter have > ridiculously low ttl of 30s)

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?

On Sat, 19 May 2012 17:11:20 +0200 Matthias Hanft wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and > > all? > > At least, "equery uses " *does* work with uninstalled > packages. (However, "equery files " does not.) You've answered a

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?

Am Samstag, 19. Mai 2012, 17:11:20 schrieb Matthias Hanft: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and all? > > At least, "equery uses " *does* work with uninstalled packages. because you just need to look at the useflags and ?DEPEND to figur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

I have no surefire solution, but so far everyone and their $PET seems to have taken for granted that your toolchain is just fine and sane. Perhaps "emerge -e @system" (without ccache, distcc or other distractions) would jiggle those bits again? -- Arttu V. On 5/19/12, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote

[gentoo-user] Re: Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background

On 05/16/2012 05:41 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:43:50AM -0700, walt wrote > > On 05/16/2012 01:40 AM__Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > _( ) __ >> I want to do ( )s, s\ (ha( \do n()e to wait while non-crucial >> services are__)\ng __) \ed) (

[gentoo-user] Re: In X: wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?

On 05/16/2012 05:22 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > On 05/16/2012 07:08 PM, walt wrote: >> You did me a huge favor by asking that question, thanks! While >> poking around in the keyboard settings applet I discovered a >> well-hidden option to disable the Caps-Lock key. I hit that stupid >> thing by a

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 120518 Michael Mol wrote: >> Remarkably simple. Probably because I was only stitching two photos. > > -- details snipped -- > > Thanks : that gives me a 3rd method to pursue. > > NB in your result there are some badly curved lines : > bottom r

[gentoo-user] Running programs compiled with a different gcc version

Yesterday I manually compiled photivo, a camera raw file converter and image editor. One of the requirements for installing is gcc 4.6. So I manually unmasked gcc 4.6.3 and installed it with portage. After switching gcc with gcc-config and . /etc/profile, photivo compiled fine. A test run showed th

[gentoo-user] Re: Running programs compiled with a different gcc version

On 19/05/12 23:23, Urs Schutz wrote: Yesterday I manually compiled photivo, a camera raw file converter and image editor. One of the requirements for installing is gcc 4.6. So I manually unmasked gcc 4.6.3 and installed it with portage. After switching gcc with gcc-config and . /etc/profile, phot

[gentoo-user] Resolved: Running programs compiled with a different gcc version

On Sun, 20 May 2012 01:01:48 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 19/05/12 23:23, Urs Schutz wrote: > > Yesterday I manually compiled photivo, a camera raw file > > converter and image editor. One of the requirements for > > installing is gcc 4.6. So I manually unmasked gcc 4.6.3 > > and installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 07:45:56 +0530 > Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using >> pdns-recursor, which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set >> minimum ttl (doesn't make sense

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

On 19 May 2012, at 20:28, Michael Mol wrote: > … > Worse, if the photographer was not using a prime lens[1], and was > instead using a lens with variable zoom, you can't easily know what > the real focal length was, as this will change depending on how far > the photographer has zoomed in. Thro

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

120519 Michael Mol wrote: > According to Wikipedia, the Zeiss Ikon is 35mm SLR, > but that's about all you're going to get from it. No ! -- as Stroller pointed out, zoom lenses were invented only c 1950. My stepfather's model was made in Germany c 1939 & had been mentioned to him as a good buy by

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

120520 Stroller wrote: > Zoom lenses were much less common even 2 or 3 decades ago. > For a long time, a 50mm prime was the common kit lens, > rather than the 18-105mm zoom which is sold today. > This was because on a camera using 35mm film, a 50mm focal length > gives a field of view very close to