On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 22:33 +0200, Simon Kellett wrote:
> Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > So the question is: why does wget try to download it from the
> > beginning? wget shouldn't do this even if the server can't resume,
> > wge
mp/portage/evolution-2.6.0/work/evolution-2.6.0/config.log
[...]
as you can see, it complains that prefer-plain is not a plugin, but I
less'ed the source, and it is still available in 2.6!
Any ideas?
thanks,
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ortage
still gets too much disk "time" and other processes suffer. nice
doesn't seem to affect disk access.
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d nicely say `nice emerge -uD world` and it wouldn't take a
whole lot of disk time away from my nice browsing, music playing, etc...
eh...
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On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:00 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:56, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the
> > disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice, portage
> >
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:57 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:08, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > wlll, it's not exactly old - it's a 3.0GHz P4 laptop (Inspiron
> > 9100). It could be a RAM issue - only 512 Mb.
> >
> > But I definately
le font like "Monospace" would be ok, but its
not...
I don't know where to start with this... any hints?
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mouse without restarting...
Hope this helps you on the way though.
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On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:42 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:47:42 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to do this automatically, nor how to make X use a
> > different mouse without restarting...
>
> Would a symlink help here? L
ld help me out a bit, I think.
so far, I don't have dri (the Load "dri" command in xorg.conf locks up
my laptop)
thanks,
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to. Try turning
DPMS on in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and setting:
Option "BlankTime"
Option "StandbyTime"
Option "SuspendTime"
Option "OffTime"
to 0 (if 0 means disable - man xorg.conf).
HTH,
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e is my device-section:
[snip]
Thanks, that's pretty much what I had. I'm interested in your
framerates though. With glxgears I only get about 130 fps with the
radeon driver, yet I get 2500+ fps with ati-drivers...
Any suggestions? What can I look for to make sure I've done it rig
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:21 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > (snip)
> >
> > Thanks, that's pretty much what I had. I'm interested in your
> > framerates though. With glxgears I only get about 130 fps with the
> > radeon d
I) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe13b2000 at 0xb7f07000
but agpgart and radeon are both "compiled in" to the kernel.
I heard something about the RV350 or RV300 (not sure) chipset not being
supported - is this true?
thanks,
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se udev, because I would like a general solution that
works for any of my usb mice (OK, I have a few at different locations :)
Ideally, I would like to make /dev/input/mice use all mice
from /dev/input/mouse2 and up (ie. not the stick or touchpad). Can I do
that somehow?
Any pointers would be appre
I like about NVidia's driver is that it is a unified driver
> model and the drivers are basically feature for feature identical on the
> different oses.
really? Wow, if I didn't have a laptop, I would have bought an NVidia
card by now.
HTH!
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When man calls
Flags Metric RefUse Iface
0.0.0.0 172.16.0.4 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 wlan0
which implies that net.wlan0 is ignoring my -m 0 setting.
Am I doing it right? I think I've got the right file, but I'm not sure.
any help would be appreciated,
thanks,
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05-11 20:14 /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt ->
/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
and it works. I don't have time to care why atm. Just letting you know
in case you haven't fixed it yet...
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On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 06:50 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > I just made a symlink to /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt :
> >
> Great idea. I'll give that a try on Monday when I'm back at the
> office. If that really fixes the problem, then it shou
me-screensaver:
1. Choose "pictures folder"
2. make a symlink to your picture folder:
$ ln -s /path/to/photos ~/Pictures
and you're done!
If you feel game, you can convert some of the xscreensaver hacks
(/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/) to gnome-screensaver xml files
(/usr/share/gnom
x27;t work, let me know and I may get around to
working on it :)
save this as xs2gs.pl
enjoy :)
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kind word alone.
-- Al Capone
[Also attributed to Johnny Carson.
script has gone in favour of
udev (version 090, ~x86). How do I make udev recognise hotplugged
hardware?
can anyone help me? It's a pain to reboot every time I want to plug in
the camera!
thanks,
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Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to intr
time... yes they've gone, and no they won't come back!
Evolution devs make a few changes over every minor revision. They've
been trying to remove some of the clutter in menu's and toolbars. Some
people like it, some don't.
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interest, n.:
g in favour of udev,
but if you're using x86, hotplug and coldplug may still be around.
OR
2b. Instead of coldplug, you could just load the usb modules
automatically on boot with /etc/modules.d/...
3. You might not have compiled usb support into your kernel, or maybe
you left out usbhid.
let
eople who dislike
evolution - maybe some of them can help you change it :)
Otherwise, there are plenty of other mail clients.
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-- Robert Heinlein
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the latest ~x86 everything, but it still happens...
thanks,
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muddy paw prints on the hood of my car.
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me 2.14, which if you're trying, I suggest you bookmark.
Essentially, you have to re-emerge gnome-panel and gnome-applets.
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.:-)
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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uilds each time I change kernels, even if I've compiled for that
kernel on a previous boot.
HTH. It's late, so if I've left something out, let me know.
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather
a new wearer of clothes.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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it if you didn't have to edit grub? Does
`uname -r` agree with the new version you just installed?
cya,
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost
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rnel, you have to call genkernel. If he's typing make &&
make install, then he's just using the plain old kernel makefile.
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There is not much to choose between a woman who deceives us for another,
and a woman who deceives another for ourselves.
-- Au
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> >
> > > Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)...
> >
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 14:14 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> My /var/log/messages is filling up with the lines like
>
> May 24 12:01:50 orpheus rc-scripts: status: stopped
>
> They're coming in two's, about every two seconds. What on earth is
> causing this?
>
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> I made it a bit further: something is calling
> "/etc/init.d/samba status" - I found this out by
> editing /etc/init.d/runscript.sh and changing the output to print the
> service name, so instead of
>
> rc-s
, you
run the risk of multiple problems snowballing on you.
Nevertheless, if you have any reason to keep your system stable,
standard disclaimer applies: stay away from ~x86. Just cause it works
for me, doesn't mean it always will.
cya,
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-- Stephan Zielinski
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- esearch only takes seconds for me...
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You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think.
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to the
terminal PC and run skype (or whatever) from inside the ssh session...
maybe there is a better way though.
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All good ideas look like bad ideas to those who are losers.
-- Dilbert
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-ed (although I doubt there are enough
readers here to flood google :)
anyway, does it upload anything to google? I don't like the thought of
a gmail-for-pictures sort of app on my PC.
thanks,
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m` to make sure it's
not there, `killall Xorg` if you like, and then: `/etc/init.d/xdm zap`
to bring it back in line. Then try starting it again.
HTH,
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 15:47 +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote:
> Am Samstag 27 Mai 2006 13.54 schrieb Iain Buchanan:
> > anyway, does it upload anything to google? I don't like the thought of
> > a gmail-for-pictures sort of app on my PC.
>
> On http://picasa.google.co
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 21:44 -0400, JimD wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > I'm not saying it _does_ these things, but where does it say it
> > _doesn't_?
>
> Hey, Google has a corporate slogan of do no evil. We can trust big
> corps right? :-)
ha
ee.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_GoogleEarth_with_wine
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-- Decklin Foster
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On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 00:19 -0700, Kenneth Hopping wrote:
> I
> also learned to always keep the last working kernel as a backup when you
> reconfigure.
And you can add another piece of self-taught knowledge to your
toolkit :) This is one that I do without thinking now.
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Hi,
I was just going back through some archives, and found mention of the
command 'synclient' to modify the Synaptic touchpad driver options - but
I can't find it anywhere. equery, esearch, and slocate show nothing.
Where do I get it?
thanks,
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The problem that
chess from time
> to time. :)
Civilisation 4 has a "play by email" mode. Never tried it though.
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Yes, it is written. Good shall always destroy evil.
-- Sirah the Yang, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown
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: Phone call for Al, Al Coholic, is there an Al Coholic here?
heh heh.
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What kind of love is that? Not to be loved; never to have shown love.
-- Commissioner Nancy Hedford, "Metamorphosis",
stardate 3219.8
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/init.d scripts. Maybe -z is not standardised or something?
Dunno why people use it.
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It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in
which there is absolutely nothing.
-- Descartes
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On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 07:10 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> Tuesday 30 May 2006 06:48 skrev Iain Buchanan:
> > I see this [ "x" != "x$BLAH" ] test all over the place, especially in
> > the /etc/init.d scripts. Maybe -z is not standardised or something?
>
BCC is your friend!
yeah. On behalf of everyone in your contacts list, thanks for giving
their email addresses out to spam-bots.
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read, so I got flip-ups.
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On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 11:23 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> I usually would not reply to a subject like this, but
[...]
And then you see that Daniel, your second candidate for the job hit the
send button 5 times...
;) couldn't resist.
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Everyone writes on the wall
trol the
fan, and hence fighting with the bios. In which case you might get high
fan speeds, or weird alternating fan speeds.
3. Try another OS and see if the fan behaviour is the same.
HTH,
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There is something in the pang of change
More than the heart can be
Did you look at /proc/acpi/fan, as suggested?
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-- Walt Kelly, "Pogo"
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nothing of value. Any leads would be greatly appreciated!!
thanks,
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It is not a good omen when goldfish commit suicide.
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Have a look at the INVOCATION section of `man bash` to get more info.
Maybe bash treats ssh like rsh and executes .bashrc for ssh connections,
not .bash_profile...
HTH,
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The faster I go, the behinder I get.
-- Lewis Carroll
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hidden.
But, it's interesting to see I've made 490 posts to this list since Mar
2004. That must be when google groups was "turned on", as I've posted
earlier than that, but oh well, who's keeping count?!! (Better make that
491 now ;)
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If you
ng machine, type `quickpkg gcc` or `quickpkg
=gcc-3.4.5-blah`.
I think the result goes int /usr/portage/packages. Then take that to
your broken machine, and unpack it.
Hope it works!
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what
is the root of
e gcc, and you'll fix the post-install and other
ebuild stuff. I hope :)
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I pray the double lock will keep;
May no brick through the window break,
And, no one rob me till I awake.
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On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:04:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > But, it's interesting to see I've made 490 posts to this list since Mar
> > 2004. That must be when google groups was "turned on", as I&#
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:23 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
> I should be
> able to say whether your steps worked within an hour or so. Thanks
> again.
*meep*
no news is good news?
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pavement is pr
;d be using
gnome-screensaver. So far, with gnome-screensaver, you have to edit the
vidwhacker.desktop file by hand I think.
HTH,
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e a symlink to your /dev/v4l/video0
maybe /dev/video0? I'm only guessing...
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reboot.
IMHO `emerge -e world` isn't generally necessary to update gcc. Have
you read the gcc upgrade howto on the gentoo-wiki?
HTH,
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to
stick to one thing till it gets there.
-- Josh Billings
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On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 20:01 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 10:19 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> >
> > next thing to do would be to check what device xscreensaver uses for
> > video capture. Maybe you have to make a symlink to your /dev/v4l/video0
>
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 03:21 +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote on 02/06/06 02:55:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 20:28 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >> 3) A vaguely related item... will it make any noticable difference if
> >>I rebuild my kernel with gcc.3.4.5 a
ow I won't
be able to emerge anything from source without most of the /usr/portage
stuff, but I'm happy with that, as all these PC's are close images of
each other, and we have one master copy with a larger HD.
thanks,
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The nice thing about Windows is - It does no
, which let you view and
control terminals remotely. Kind of like vnc for text-consoles.
I am aware of screen, but AFAIK screen can't show the buffer locally on
the console as well as remotely to a user, at the same time...
thanks for the tips,
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The end of labor is to
nstalled one.
Lastly, what does the program do? My wife is a Dental Assistant, and
I've been trying to convince her boss to switch to a computer based
appointment and record system, but he doesn't want to spend any money...
cya,
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Dogs just don't seem to be able
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:36 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I use gentoo on small industrial-pc's, and strip out a lot of stuff that
> >just takes up space, such as /usr/portage.
>
> Could you put /usr/portage
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 23:51 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:40 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> > > What is the best way to transfer content of an old HD to a new one
> > > bigger one?
> >
> &
e? make sure you have a backup, then copy your old hd
to your linux partition, and run wine from it. If it's a simple app it
should work ok...
HTH,
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Does not run on any existing machine.
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On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 17:44 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:25:11 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > > 1) How do I resume the build?
> >
> > emerge --resume
> > so long as you can still boot :) which you should be able to.
> > Oth
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know screen could do that. For those
interested, I had to:
1. sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen
2. sudo chmod 755 /var/run/screen
3. screen -r sessionowner/[[pid.]tty[.host]]
and that's it! I could use it as a simple "talk", and also to see what
w
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:24 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > 1. sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen
> > 2. sudo chmod 755 /var/run/screen
> > 3. screen -r sessionowner/[[pid.]tty[.host]]
>
> I think the little part of me that's even slightly securi
home that I've been upgrading
gentoo on for a couple of years now, and I used to get quite a few apps
not updating for this reason. Hopefully I've found them all by now :)
cya,
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s all over the place.
I've tried installing a few fonts, or looking for use flags that might
affect it, but nothing worked - I'm completely stumped.
Can anyone help me solve this? What would you suggest? xorg.conf? use
flags?
thanks,
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Nietzsche is pietzsche, but Sch
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:13 +, Mick wrote:
> On 13/06/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution
> > shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 22:21 +, Mick wrote:
> On 14/06/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make
> > much difference. However, I did notice this when I started fire
$ ls /usr/portage/media-video/tovid
ls: /usr/portage/media-video/tovid: No such file or directory
thanks,
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preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1
-sort /tmp/kde-iain/k3bwrhUta.tmp -rational-rock
-hide-list /tmp/kde-iain/k3bRGm4Yb.tmp -joliet
-hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-iain/k3bYBqJba.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames
-iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-iain/k3brIl4xa.tmp -dvd-video
-f /tmp/kde-iain/
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 16:01 +0200, Petr Uzel wrote:
> Dne středa 28 červen 2006 15:51 Petr Uzel napsal(a):
> > Dne středa 28 červen 2006 15:04 Iain Buchanan napsal(a):
> > > Hi again :)
> > >
> > > I have been googling for this one for a little while, and tryin
ttempts so far don't catch output or send input properly...
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
thanks,
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g out the line:
Defaultsenv_reset
I don't know if gksudo uses this file, but if it does, your problem
should go away... If it does go away, then uncomment the line and do
something better like:
Defaults:yourname env_keep-=TERMCAP
HTH,
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but surely I'm not the first to
notice it?
any comments appreciated. thanks,
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
-- Robert Frost
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On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:45 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using ~x86, and I just noticed that the PORTDIR_OVERLAY
> (/usr/local/portage) is being ignored.
on closer inspection, it's not being ignored, but I'm just not getting
the [1] /usr/lo
turned on some debugging for ieee1394.agent, but I basically see
nothing!
I tried googling, but the terms are so generic, I can't find anything
useful.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I would appreciate any
comments, thanks.
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Underlying Princip
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 10:17 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 16:01 +0200, Petr Uzel wrote:
>
> > file /proc/self/status is a link pointing to the
> > directory /proc/pid_of_process. And by parsing status file in this
> > directory
> > you shoul
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:55 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Someone mentioned that /proc is deprecated for 2.6? is this correct? Is
> > there a /sys alternative to /proc/self/status?
>
> Again, I *highly* sugges
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 21:48 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > yes I would, except that I'm editing a class which is inherited by a
> > multitude of programs, so the /proc way I only have to change one file,
> > w
nning, or "bad things" will happen
(there's quite a bit of shared memory which would get corrupted). And
some tasks require that a whole list of other tasks are not running.
QNX used to have some functions to register a name with the system to
stop this (qnx_name_locate, etc), but lin
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:41 +, James wrote:
> Iain Buchanan netspace.net.au> writes:
>
>
> > hotplug doesn't hotplug!
>
> I've recently discovered these 2 little jewels. They may not help, but
> it's worth a whirl.
>
> # udevstart [af
st run
fdisk /dev/sdx
to create a partition, then you should see /dev/sdx1
Also, you could provide udev and kernel versions.
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instead of some old.
Something to do with the nature of the continuing development on
portage.
I think you don't need to worry about it at all, so long as your package
installs in the end.
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onded to and sent files to / from the PC. If I bond pda
to mobile, I can see the "com port" options available, but just not with
the PC.
Can anyone shed any light? I've followed various howto's / wiki's
(gentoo-wiki and synce.sourceforge.net), but they all assume that you
the scope of program_invocation_name is
global.
cool! Oh well, reading /proc/ was an experience :)
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 22:34 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi again :)
>
> I have been googling for this one for a little while, and trying various
> options, but I can't se
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On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:20 +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know that PID's wrap around if they get to a sufficiently
> large number
> - anyone know what that number
le by
hand that I specified in /etc/conf.d/iptables, if I have to. webmin is
pretty good, so usually I don't have to edit anything by hand...
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sliced bread."
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t box problem is still there too:
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > $ firefox
> > No running windows found
> > Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-b&h-lucida-medium
I just discovered something else: when I click in a text box in java in
firefox, I get this message on the terminal:
Warning:
Name: textfield
Class: XmTextField
Character '\61' not supported in font. Discarded.
what does that mean? is it related?
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/profiles.
yes you will know. Eventually you will get a message every time you do
an emerge that says something like "your profile is deprecated, please
see www.blah.blah for information on updating to the latest profile"...
so you will know when it matters :)
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the option too...
This way, it shouldn't matter what the Voltage is (240V, 120V,
3.141592653589793V) you just adjust the switch on the meter.
Some of the more expensive products have waveform capture and
datalogging features too.
HTH,
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