Mark Knecht writes:
> Possibly you installed something other than xfce4-meta?
>
> firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils
> [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1
> firefly ~ #
I'm just seconding fireflys' report. I suspect xfce4 expects you to
be starting X from a system
Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail):
Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent
Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467065] hdc: status error:
status=0x00 { }
Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467071] hdc: possibly failed
op
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 00:36:42 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail):
>>
>> Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent
>>
>> Feb 16 09:38:48 reader ke
Alan McKinnon writes:
> Remote logging and just leave it till the machine freezes again will
> hopefully give you the useful logs you need to identify the
> problem. To save disk space you can configure logrotate on the
> remote logger to delete the previous days stuff - you don't need
> logs fro
I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery
generating tools available on linux.
I have photos on smugmug.com and wondered if there is do it yourself
tools that come anywhere close the sophisticated handling they do.
Iain Buchanan writes:
> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery
>> generating tools available on linux.
>>
>> I have photos on smugmug.com and wondered if there is do it
Mick writes:
> On Thursday 18 February 2010 01:35:12 Iain Buchanan wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> > I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and
>> > gallery generating tools available on linux.
>> >
&
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
>> never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I
>> push JAlbum. You can create some pretty good looking albums and run
>> them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you
I'm trying to get a gentoo guest running in vmware app on windowsxp.
I just installed a prebuilt appliance (gentoo 2008) and am now
updating it.
I got the kernel rebuilt and updated to 2.6.32-r5 and rebooted into
that.
I now have all uppercase at the cmdline. The actual keyboard is not
in upper
photo/album/...
>
> the on-the-fly bit is only done if the requested size doesn't exist yet, eg.
> it will only do it once (unless you clear the derivatives folder ;) )
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:53:15 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> > If you
Harry Putnam writes:
> I'm trying to get a gentoo guest running in vmware app on windowsxp.
>
> I just installed a prebuilt appliance (gentoo 2008) and am now
> updating it.
>
> I got the kernel rebuilt and updated to 2.6.32-r5 and rebooted into
> that.
>
>
How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd?
(This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org)
There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either
of those ends in a gui.
I always find it takes me 10 minutes to find a terminal once the gui
comes up
Dale writes:
> Unless it has changed, it is "gentoo nox" at the prompt. Whatever
> option you want to use, you have to put the gentoo first. At least it
Yup, sorry for missing it in the options (F7). Iain B. nailed right off
the bat.
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
to a newly created one.
I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an
unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated
(with no boot up), but I recall seeing things during boot like
`populat
On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
installed?
I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only
log server.
Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be
removed?
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> well, cfg-update keeps a backup. It detects manual edits and try to
> resolve conflicts resulting from that automatically. Which works
> surprisingly well. If
Volker gave me that same advice long ago, I've used cfg-update ever
since.
Its capable of dispatching mea
ALERT [ This is a slightly rewritten repost from
`gmane.[...].perl.beginners', where it got no responses]
---- ---=--- -
My subject line is probably not really that
good at describing what I want advice on but here it is:
I've setup one linu
Alan McKinnon writes:
>> Then tap into the fifo with a perl script that is written to be able
>> to sort and write the syslog output according to various regex that
>> may be part of startup cmd or fed in later during the running script.
>
> I don't know rsyslog at all (I use syslog-ng), but cert
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Friday 26 February 2010 23:44:03 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Where I'm weak is the part where the custom script checks if the
>> daemon is running, before the script itself starts. That part would
>> need to be something pretty fool proof...
I've run into something here on an OS that was installed from scratch
only a week or so ago.
emerge -vuDNp world shows only 8 pkgs (on a todays sync).
But none of them will install even with --skipfirst and --keep-going
All fail when aclocal is trotted out. I don't see recent threads here
ab
Alan McKinnon writes:
> FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards
> compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that comprises
> Unix. Which is to say, almost always useless for real work.
A little turn towards OT:
so what are using your opensolari
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon writes:
>> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris:
>> > standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common
>> > denominator that com
For quite a long time I've been using things like:
vga=0x31A
On the kernel line in grub.conf
Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found
somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago.
## 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
## 256 0x301 0x303 0x3050x
Mark Knecht writes:
>In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption
> problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have
> you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this point?
Sorry to butt in here... is that tool, smartctl in some pkg on
I'm having trouble when revdep-rebuild tries to emerge
dev-perl/DBD-mysql
I can't really make much sense of the output but I see it involves
scripting from perl-5.8.8
I've included the tail of the emerge below, and below that the output
of emerge --info =dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3 as suggested by
Willie Wong writes:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:21:35AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> >>> Unpacking source...
>> >>> Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.013.tar.gz to
>> >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work
>> >>>
Michael Higgins writes:
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:52:30 -0600
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> >> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry
>> >> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 223. object
>> >> version 1.609 does not match $::V
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Monday 08 March 2010 21:48:12 Laurent Kappler wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm using htpasswd to write the user password form my htaccess.
>>
>> It works only if I put "require valid-user" not if I put "require
>> specificuser"
>>
>> any idea?
>
> It should work, if everything
I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess.
I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write
freely there.
This line, does not do it:
grep hdd7 /etc/fstab
/dev/hdd7 /home/reader/spool reiserfs noatime,exec,users,rw 0 2
(using the singular `user' didn't help
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess.
>>
>> I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write
>> freely there.
>>
>> This line
Alan McKinnon writes:
> Stop fooling around with fstab and mount options.
> The commands you want are chown and chmod
Got ya ... thanks
I need a little coaching on qmerge usage.
I'm trying to emerge sys-fs/zfs-fuse. The merge fails on a known bug,
a duplicate of another bug... 303623
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303623
In the comments... (#3) someone has asked to make the emerge once a
specific file is edited to remo
William Kenworthy writes:
[...]
> qmerge is an argument to ebuild:
Neil Bothwick writes:
[...]
> Actually, you don't need all of this as ebuild will perform all
> uncompleted previous stages, so you only need
>
> ebuild unpack
> edit file
> ebuild qmerge
Nice... thanks... I got confused wit
Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with:
emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0.
I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
But when I look there, I see:
# Ulrich Mueller (10 Mar 2010)
# Emacs live ebuilds. Use at your own risk.
~app-editors/emacs-vcs-23.1.
~app-editors/emacs
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:19:03 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Ok, fine but first I want to find out what the unexplained tilde
>> means. There are only a handfull of packagew with that notation in the
>> masked file... where do look to find out it
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:34:41 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Seriously, Do you know why emacs-24 is masked like that?
>>
>> What little I know of Ulrich Mueller is that he is quite a stalwart
>> fellow and not much would get by him. I gues
In my home lan setup its an opensolaris (zfs fs) NFS server that is
supposed to be set to show NFS vers=3 on offer.
Somehow on the client end... my gentoo desktop, its getting mounted
with vers=4 as evidenced by the output of `mount'
opensolairs_NFS_SERVER:/pub on /pub type nfs
(rw,users,addr
I'm trying t umount an nfs mounted share but am told the resource is
busy. umount -f fails too.
So first I turned off all the xterms I had running which should have
killed any shell operating there.
Still says resouce is busy.
So trying to see what is doing it with `lsof'
However, when I run `
Steve writes:
> I have recently started looking at server resilience and availability in
> the context of a hardware failure or hardware upgrade. I've come to the
> conclusion that it would be very desirable if terrabyte-scale data did
> not need to be restored from backup. This isn't a commerc
I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able
to see a solution.
I've make the propers kernel settings and the w83627hf modules is
built and available in /lib/modules/*
I tried rebuilding the kernel with that stuff built-in. but then
lm_sensors couldn't even find tools to
Harry Putnam writes:
Forgot to give kernel version:
uname -r
2.6.33-gentoo
> I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able
> to see a solution.
>
> I've make the propers kernel settings and the w83627hf modules is
> built and available in /lib
Helmut Jarausch writes:
> On 21 Mar, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Harry Putnam writes:
>>
>> Forgot to give kernel version:
>> uname -r
>> 2.6.33-gentoo
>>
>>> I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able
>>>
Helmut Jarausch writes:
> Hi Harry,
>
> first of all,
> have you enabled
> Device-Drivers/Hardware monitoring support/
> AMD Phenom/Sempron/Turion/Opteron temperature sensor ?
>
> and then
> Winbond W83627EHF/EHG/DHG, W83667HG
>
> I have an ASRock M3A790GXH/128M board.
>
> I'm running the 2
Neil Bothwick writes:
[...]
> You can set features on a per-package basis by putting FEATURES="blah"
> into /etc/portage/env/category/package.
If that would also work for something like always using a specific
EXTRA_ECONF for a certain package:
EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-rootcommit"
Can you sh
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:17:14 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> > You can set features on a per-package basis by putting FEATURES="blah"
>> > into /etc/portage/env/category/package.
>>
>> If that would also work for somethi
This is not a question about cvs... its only used for example.
I'm puzzled about a change in what I see when I run
cvs -n update 2> /dev/null
I've apparently lost the ability to remove stder from output.
I used that command to trim out file descriptor 2 which used to leave
a list of any chan
walt writes:
> On 04/09/2010 08:19 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> This is not a question about cvs... its only used for example.
>>
>> I'm puzzled about a change in what I see when I run
>> cvs -n update 2> /dev/null
>>
>> I've apparently l
Harry Putnam writes:
>>
>> $cat /tmp/testfile
>> cat: nonexistantfile: No such file or directory
>
> Thanks...
>
>> Are you running cvs as root, or user, or ...?
>
> I was running cvs as user, and now trying your tests... it appears the
> trouble ha
Mick writes:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a (native) way to configure sendmail to send messages via a
> secondary smtp account, if dor some reason the primary ISP smtp is
> down, without some bespoke DIY script?
Not give you the runaround, and there may well be some sendmail
experts here... but I thin
Mick writes:
> For the purpose of posterity:
>
> The way to set up a fall back host is to use confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to define
> a fall back smtp server.
Thanks Mick... Instead of asking for help, you ended up giving help.
Did someone answer your question privately?
I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more
than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with
Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC.
I'm not finding it now readily.
Can someone tell me where that setting may be made.
If it has something to do with new way of starting X where we don't
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
>> Read more details here:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml
>
> HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not
> the "new" way ;)
Well, its just not the NEWEST way. But what is the newest (post
Harry Putnam writes:
> Nikos Chantziaras writes:
>
>>> Read more details here:
>>>
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml
>>
>> HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not
>
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented
than any of the other pretenders.
Now understand, that I am easily the dullest knife in the drawer on
this list even though by unix/linux standards I'm fairly long in the
tooth having started my computing skills in 1996 and bro
Grant Edwards writes:
> On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you
>> are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then
>> let m4 sort out sendmail.cf.
>
> IOW, s
Mick writes:
> The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up in
> your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so:
>
> terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
>
> Read more details here:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml
I am running hal
Mick writes:
> I think you did not read the link properly. You are meant to copy
> the relevant .fdi file from
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and then modify the last
> paragraph:
Yes, I did misread apparently... it doesn't say that a
Mick writes:
[...]
> The penultimate paragraph says that you should copy _some_ file from
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
penultimate Egad... does that mean its explosive? ... : )
[...]
>
>> [...]
>> 17
>> 18
>> 19 us
>> 20
>> 21
>> [...
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented
>> than any of the other pretenders.
>
> One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and
>
Alan McKinnon writes:
>> Internet mail is quite complex, yes.
> This statement is the source of the confusion surrounding sendmail.
> Internet mail is not complex, it is stunningly simple:
> mail comes in,
> look up where it should go,
> send it there
[...]
Egad, I had no idea it was so simp
Alex Schuster writes:
> After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries somewhere
> in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra slot for the 1.2
> version. So, just emerge media-libs/libpng:1.2 , and I'd expect all to be
> fine then.
Doesn't seem to be the case her
Alex Schuster writes:
> Harry Putnam writes:
>
>> Alex Schuster writes:
>> > After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries
>> > somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra
>> > slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emer
Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how I can backup a disk on a
remote laptop running windows vista.
I've utterly destroyed the laptops screen, even plugging it into an
external monitor... fails. vnc access fails as well.
However due to having installed an sshd daemon with cygwin, I can ssh
to
Mick writes:
> Isn't this an indication that more than the screen was damaged? Did you try
> pressing Fn+F4 or whatever the appropriate key is to activate the external
> monitor? Did you try rebooting just for good measure?
You can disregard my other response. It turns out the laptop does
h
I've been looking for a perl based search tool that uses some kind of
indexing to index and render searchable my home library of software
manual and the like. Quite a few html pages involved, maybe 15-16,000.
Webglimpse is something I've worked with before and know a bit about
but thought I might
Does anyone else notice a serious mess when copy/pasting to firefox.
Some other places too.
I'll mouse scrape something from and go to paste it into google, and
get some older paste plus the new one intermixed as a result.
Its been going on for a good while and finally reached the point where
I'm
Brandon Vargo writes:
> As an example of how it works, suppose I am making a news website and
> have a bunch of news posts, each of which has an author, category, and
Thank you brandon for such a nice through answer... Yeah, looks like
I'm barking up the wrong tree.
I know about htdig.. Not muc
Lie Ryan writes:
> On 06/06/10 07:56, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Does anyone else notice a serious mess when copy/pasting to firefox.
>> Some other places too.
>
> I don't. But, I guess you need to clarify, when you're saying you
> "copy/paste", is it Ct
Brandon Vargo writes:
> do. When I go to find code that I have written, I do not remember
> variable names, lines of code, etc that I can match with a regular
> expression. Thus, that kind of search is pointless for me. I remember
> what the code does, the project for which I wrote the code, and
Brandon Vargo writes:
> [1]: http://www.google.com/codesearch
> [2]: http://beagle-project.org/
Acckk, I forgot to thank you for the URLS you posted.. thanks
pk writes:
> On 2010-06-06 22:13, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I disagree that we all are accustomed to Cntl-v etc. That is more a
>> windows phenomena... long time linux (X) users are more accustomed to
>> left mouse highlight... middle mouse paste, I think, at lest I am
With recent updates (done thru cron) I have quite a hefty number of
new X related config files.
They unmodified and I think most are new. Especially the X related
ones.
I have `inlined' the list at the end of this post. It may contain a
few normal changes as well I wasn't sure what might be rela
The following comments turned up in my elogs recently:
---- ---=--- - ---
>>> Messages generated for package dev-libs/mpfr-3.0.0 by
process 12988 on 20100622-081454 CDT:-
WARN: postinst
Old versions of installed libraries were detected on yo
On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is
not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the
wallpapers packaged with the install.
Other obvious changes are that ctrl-alt-bkspc no longer shuts X down
And the desktop seems to take a good bit longer to initially l
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is
>> not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the
>> wallpapers packaged with the install.
>
> Did you
Mick writes:
>> On my old computer it detected the highest resolution as 1280x1024,
>> but could actually do 1600x1200 with no problems. I had to create a
>> custom Modeline and put it in xorg.conf - this was before the HAL
>> revolution. I've got no idea if modelines still belong in xorg.conf or
Mick writes:
>> Subsection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>> Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> Virtual 2048 1536
>> ViewPort0 0
>> EndSubsection
>> EndSection
>>
>> [...]
>
> Sure, but we're talking about setting modelines and
Paul Hartman writes:
> In short, jpeg-7 breaks some things :) It's not compatible with
> previous versions and while most programs don't have a problem with
> that, some do.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what causes XFCE to break, but gtk+ is broken
> with jpeg-7 and causes other apps like gqview to b
I didn't notice that mplayer wasn't working in firefox right away but
I think it may have started with a recent update.
(All updated packages are listed at the bottom)
Now I just get a black screen in player window on a web page. The
player loads and indicates its loading the video and playing
Kelly Hirai writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I didn't notice that mplayer wasn't working in firefox right away but
>> I think it may have started with a recent update.
>> (All updated packages are listed at the bottom)
[...]
> i had trouble with consol
Harry Putnam writes:
>> i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update as mplayer was
>> built against another version of /usr/lib/libx264.so revdep-rebuild
>> fixed that.
>
> Thanks...
> revdep-rebuild here, turns up several pkgs needing rebuild but
The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is:
media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1
It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries
with
emerge -vu mplayer
Anyone know where it can be found.
By the way I did try downloading the sources from:
http://www
Harry Putnam writes:
> The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is:
>media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1
>
> It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries
> with
>
>emerge -vu mplayer
>
> Anyone know where it can be foun
dhk writes:
> I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something
> happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I
> can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again
> or they are displayed but off the screen. Any ideas?
>
> Than
Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only
produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files.
Ditto in firefox. This was working.
But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko
installed but in the firefox settings/applications it lists:
quick
Mick writes:
> -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors-
>
> (reason: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : invalid
> sender domain)
>
> -Transcript of session follows -
> ... while talking to smtp.ISP.com:
MAIL From: SIZE=745 AUTH=<>
> <<< 550 5.1.0 sender rejected :
Mick writes:
>> I think you might avoid the problem by making sendmail Impersonate your
>> isps domain.
>>
>> Using some or all of these settings in sendmail.mc
>> MASQUERADE_AS(`yourISP.domain')dnl
>> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`youractual.domain')dnl
>> FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl
>> FEATUR
Ward Poelmans writes:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote:
>>
>> When using the line:
>>
>> @ 5 fetchmail -a
>>
>> nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded
>> with
>>
>> fetchmail -a
>>
>> from the commandline.
>>
>> May be I am a little overhacked today...
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only
>> produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files.
>
> It works for me on ~amd64. I'm using mplayer-1.0_rc4_p
I use a laptop with one of those touch pads you use for a mouse where
you drag your finger around on it and have two buttons for left and
right mouse.
Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse
button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text
(console)
Grant Edwards writes:
[...]
> One assumes that "console mode" means he's not running X.
>
> That said, I presume gpm holds the answer. But, I don't run gpm
> and don't know much about it...
James Ausmus writes:
[...]
> then edit /etc/conf.d/gpm and add a (or modify an existing uncommented):
>
Mick writes:
> On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam
> squawked:
>> > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse
>> > button provided on the touchpad) bu
Harry Putnam writes:
> Mick writes:
>
>> On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam
>> squawked:
>>> > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse
>
Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in
firefox.
I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I
can only get a look where like in a google search.. The hits are
displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the
search box where you
Do we have tools other than Konqueror that are aware of smb/UNK
addressing?
Before you answer please note that:
I know about ssh
I know about fuse
I know about mount -tcifs
I'd really like to be able to use UNK addressing from the cmd line.
cd //host/share
I don't now how many of you have not
Dale writes:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> and my brain just doesn't
>> work the way vi does.
>>
>>
>
> I'm with you Grant. Mine doesn't work that way either.
You guys do know that Bill Joy was lopsided drunk when he wrote the
bulk of vi ... right? (or so it is said by oldtimers)
Nobodys' b
walt writes:
> On 10/02/2009 01:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Do we have tools other than Konqueror that are aware of smb/UNK
>> addressing?
>>
>> Before you answer please note that:
>> I know about ssh
>> I know about fuse
>> I know about mount -tcif
How to make eix search an overlay too.
The manpage for layman says:
You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on
http://overlays.gentoo.org by using "eix". Emerge the package and
run update-eix-remote update.
But I find no such option in eix or eix --help|grep update
walt writes:
[...]
>>>
>>> Well, it sounds like you know more about the subject than I do, but
>>> do you know about smbmount that comes as part of samba? Seems to me
>>> like that's what you're asking for.
>>
>> I had forgotten about smbmount but that too is not the same as being
>> able to c
Paul Hartman writes:
>> Emacs is said to be able to do this using tramp but I haven't ever
>> gotten it to work.
>>
>> Konqueror can do it... but I don't run kde, and don't really want to
>> fiddle with it in that direction.
>
> Midnight Commander can do it.
Haa, there is an old time tool... wha
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