Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
or & Krusader to see if that helps. > Any KDE gurus out there ? They're all too busy looking at their reflections in Plasma (smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Cristian Gary wrote: > 2009/6/8 Philip Webb >> 090608 Mick wrote: >>> The problem remains with most menus and submenus in KDE applications: >>> e.g. right-click on a file in Konqueror, then 'Open With' >>> and there are no applications in the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
? Not here. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved

2009-06-09 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Philip Webb wrote: > 090608 Mick wrote: >> I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency: >> kde-base/mimelib >> Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug -elibc_FreeBSD) >> I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-10 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-11 Thread Philip Webb
t rebooting check they're there in Fluxbox, then reboot & see what has happened, presumably they wb lost again. After that has been confirmed, we can look into the cause more closely. Anyone else have suggestions ? -- ,,======== S

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-11 Thread Philip Webb
090611 Philip Webb wrote: > You can test this by restoring the settings in KDE, > then without rebooting check they're there in Fluxbox, > then reboot & see what has happened, presumably they wb lost again. Actually, there are 2 possibilities, at user login & at reboot,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-12 Thread Philip Webb
Krusader. Does anyone have any suggestions ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-12 Thread Philip Webb
x27;open with' ok ! So my problem seems to lie in starting 'kdeinit' without the KDE desktop. It will take another couple of reboots (tomorrow) to confirm this. Mick mb doing things a bit differently & his problem mb elsewhere. -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
090613 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: >> Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least: >> (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : "must be started by Kdeinit"; >> (12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
090613 Philip Webb wrote: > It looks as if the problem here is that if 'kdeinit' is started > without an existing desktop to relate to, some connection is not made. I've investigated further & can't find which file Krusader uses to remember its file associat

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
re bug remaining, but if it works, don't fiddle with it ! -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] To be mesa or not to be mesa...

2009-06-25 Thread Philip Webb
libs/mesa-7.1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.29 (media-libs/mesa) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Seek advice: converting Sabayon to Gentoo ?

2009-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
ences don't sound typical of a sensible user (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
include it in your kernel, than you can simplify your drivers. HTH -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : purs...@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openoffice fails on qt_plugins_3.3rc

2009-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
heir locks. This is OO 3.1.0 (compiled from source) + 'qt-3.3.8b-r1'. HTH -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

2009-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
ich does what you want. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
ven the highest and most professional level > of assistance to a rather clueless user. > This is typical, and always has been with Gentoo's community. The devs do need to get regular thanks for their unpaid work. -- ,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
on Gentoo). The tools are all there in Gentoo: you just have to find & use them. Perhaps someone should write a doc 'Gentoo for the Time-Challenged'. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

[gentoo-user] Firefox PDF problem (was something vague)

2009-08-14 Thread Philip Webb
ersion of Firefox ? Which PDF files (one or more examples) ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When will the ~ go from Firefox 3.0.12?

2009-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
r stand-by machine. My policy is to avoid 'testing' for system or other vital packages, but use it for well-maintained items like Firefox. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with the web browsers

2009-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
f you're on a Core2 and a recent GCC, > you might want to change that to "-march=core2" or "-march=native". I use Gcc 4.3.2-r3 & have CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe". -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Free memory issue

2009-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
that stuff, if it needs the space. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

2009-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
box using 'emerge world', so I won't run into serious blocks & masks. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 installation

2009-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
reen space is exceptional. I use Krusader for heavy lifting. MC 4.7.0 sb out soon & they mb aiming for a really new MC 5 , which wb worth investigating. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
feteria). Quality is what matters & I'ld say it has improved in recent years. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Philip Webb
ers may have hit this too. Otherwise, try compiling with Java (and any extra pkgs that requires). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Philip Webb
y problems with either installation. My CAD 0,02 . -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
e the problem, but is there a more conventional method ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
081201 Justin wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> Something keeps resetting the permission for /mnt/usb to 755 , >> which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user. / sb 'writing' >> My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:ha

[gentoo-user] waiting for Godot & uevents

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
this problem ever resolved ? Does anyone have suggestions ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
081201 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:10:00 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> in /etc/fstab I have : >> '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' >> I reformat USB sticks to a Linux fs, as 'fat' seems to reduce capacity. > You didn

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for Godot & uevents

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
081201 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My back-up box has an irritating problem, which was discussed here >> in a thread which ended 080731 (msg 73690) apparently unresolved. >> At boot, it says "popul

[gentoo-user] LVM2 log file puzzle

2008-12-06 Thread Philip Webb
lable Use% Mounted on ... /dev/mapper/lvm-var2097084647704 1449380 31% /var If so, what is the correct way out of the jam ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-23 Thread Philip Webb
y lifting, I use Krusader, which is very powerful. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-23 Thread Philip Webb
081224 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Philip Webb wrote: >> FYI & others', there's a very nice lightweight FM called 'vifm', >> which is in Portage & uses Vim-style commands in a terminal; >> no FM cb faster & it's highly c

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2008-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
Bugs or KDE bugs ? Anyway, it's clearly a bug in Kpdf, which sb reported. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2009-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
E bugzilla, but also their database sb searched first. One further idea is to see what happens if you try to open it with Open Office 3 , which claims to input PDF. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2009-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
ok upto c page 32 . However, it doesn't alter the fact that there is a bug in Kpdf, which should never crash whatever file it's given: at least, there sb an appropriate error message with 'ok' to close cleanly. -- ,,=======

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2009-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
090101 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> One further idea is to see what happens >> if you try to open it with Open Office 3 , which claims to input PDF. > I have OOo3 here and it said it was a 13,000 page document > and it was full of garbage at that. > That didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
for that machine not to try to upgrade the Nvidia driver. Portage knows that what is proposed is going to break the user's system, so it should refuse to do it. It's like "Package A blocks package B", which causes the emerge to stop till the user acts more sensibly. -- ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2009-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
fonts and > + http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?23973 , incorrect scaling > of > + certain fonts. > + You beat me to it ! -- I've just submitted KDE bug 179280 . -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2009-01-03 Thread Philip Webb
for me and the rest of us. Yes, Kpdf & Xpdf now show p 10 correctly here too. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSI

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
090105 Willie Wong wrote: > What is Uniserve? Sorry, I assumed the context made it clear: Uniserve is my ISP. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University

[gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
pop.ca.inter.net (2763 octets). reading message purs...@ca-inter-net.uniserve.ca:1 of 1 (2763 octets).. flushed -- end of message -- -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre,

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
090105 Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:04:45PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: > have you checked your outgoing mail logs > to see if cron attempts to send mail when fetchmail is called? Thanks for the suggestion: the last few lines of /var/log/syslog are :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: weird cron mail problem

2009-01-06 Thread Philip Webb
090105 Harry Putnam wrote: > Philip Webb writes: >> The problem originated 090104 c0520 , >> when I edited ~/.fetchmailrc to delete the reference to a logfile. >> However, attempts to restore the STATVS QVO ANTE have failed: >> I've restored the previous v

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-06 Thread Philip Webb
... (smile) Rewriting .fetchmailrc using fetchmailconf thro'out didn't help, so that's one set of possibilities ruled out & I will try the suggestions above (thanks) next. Your or others' further comments are very welcome. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem

2009-01-06 Thread Philip Webb
: perhaps there's an obscure bug, but the irritating problem has been resolved & I have other jobs today. Thanks for the helpful advice (smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: weird cron mail problem: basically solved

2009-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
090106 Harry Putnam wrote: > Philip Webb writes: >> 090106 Willie Wong wrote: >>> you may want to change the root line to "root=purslow", >>> so the mail gets sent to purslow instead of postmaster >>> (which according to /etc/mail/aliases becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

2009-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

2009-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
ng looks good to me. Same here. I'm using Firefox 3.0.5 . -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 and KDE-3.5

2009-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
p; no doubt it will supersede KDE 3 over the next year or so. My plan is to try out 4.2.1 when it's released & gets into testing. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] weekend fun

2009-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16497-international-wildbird-competition/2 -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
just another thing to trip you up. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Philip Webb
e book ... (smile) -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-12 Thread Philip Webb
cker to do : :m,ns/^/#/ -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread Philip Webb
l arrived. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Open Office: PDF import

2009-02-16 Thread Philip Webb
98 pages of garbage. I tried rebooting & re-opening OO, but not change. There's nothing in OO Help re the add-on or importing PDFs. I'm using OO 3.0.1 . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTR

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office: PDF import

2009-02-17 Thread Philip Webb
090217 Sebastián Magrí wrote: > On Tue, February 17, 2009 7:26 am, Philip Webb wrote: >> Has anyone succeeded in importing a PDF to Open Office Impress or Draw ? >> I've added the add-on from from under /usr/... (as it says), >> but when I try to 'insert file&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site

2009-03-20 Thread Philip Webb
I did that with Konqueror 3.5.10 & it's ok, so it's a KDE 4 bug. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
ed, Gentoo is not for people who want to install & forget: for that, try Mandriva, a respectable distro. Anyway, I've offered a few hints above: try them & ask again here. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

2009-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
t so far. My CAD 0,02 ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
090322 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:58:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >>> Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. >> I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world', >> then decide which packages to update & emerge them individually. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Philip Webb
try. > How can I find out what font is being used and mb substitute it with CSS? I leave that to others ... (smile) -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Univers

Re: [gentoo-user] lynx - cookies

2009-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
ry prompt reply from the maintainer. AFAIK as a long-standing Lynx user, you can do this only per session. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANS

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
's been no reply. Fltk 2 is needed to try out Dillo 2 , which I'ld like to do. I don't like to complain when bug-fixers are volunteers, so haven't. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating menu in KDE

2007-07-06 Thread Philip Webb
ce, but leaves everything else alone. Just use the menu editor to fix it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT

[gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
CRT monitor (2000) still works very well. Does anyone have any warnings or comments re any of the bits & pieces ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
s so far. Further comments are very welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of T

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
osen what appear to be mid-priced items from the store's list. Someone mentioned a quad-core: are they presently supported by Gentoo ? All comments are most welcome & will go into my specs file. -- ,,======== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
with AMD, which has worked well since 2003. > Hope it helps Definitely ! -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
her connections (which cost CAD), besides learning how to set it up & secure it from possible malware when either machine is connected to the Internet. The KVM switch mentioned costs CAD 32 = USD 30 . -- ====,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
070709 Philip Webb wrote: > I'm planning to build a 3rd machine later this summer. Thanks for all the advice & suggestions, which I have recorded & will consider carefully before actually buying stuff in August. Any further thoughts from anyone wb added gratefully to the file.

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Philip Webb
ng PDF. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
sed deadlines for Foundation legal stuff. I'm confident it wb all settled in a few weeks time & again thanks for your & everyone's volunteer labors (big smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb :

Re: [gentoo-user] charset iso/utf (was:packages.gentoo.org down?)

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
070810 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> (I've just been reading LeCarré), > Your email uses UTF-8, What do you mean ? > but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. That is what I woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
g 'ctl-v 233'. It doesn't make much difference to me, but suggestions are always welcome. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
070811 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I write e-mails with Gvim called up by Mutt (as now). >> [...] >> termencoding -- character encoding used by the terminal >> set tenc=utf-8 > This suggests you are using a UTF-8 locale. In /etc/locale

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf : PS

2007-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
070811 Philip Webb wrote: > 070811 Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> That does not solve the actual bug: >> Mutt should not advertise charset=iso-8859-1 , >> when the message contains UTF-8. In .muttrc I have: set charset="iso-8859-1" Perhaps this sb changed to co

[gentoo-user] Mutt depends on Lynx ?

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
bring in Lynx ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt depends on Lynx ?

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
070812 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 12 August 2007 14:27:16 Philip Webb wrote: >> I went to emerge the latest Mutt & found it wanted to emerge Lynx too. >> I have a recent Lynx in /usr/local & am experienced with both apps >> (yes, I know that that L

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
many which have updates, but are not related to the Expat problem. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
quot;POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= > Philip We

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
> If just setting the better locale doesn't help, > then also try with an empty .muttrc. That sounds rather extreme (smile): are there specific lines to comment out ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-13 Thread Philip Webb
070813 Philip Webb wrote: > I now have (via a line in .bashrc ): > > LANG= > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" ... snip ... > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > > There's no difference in the headers. > It occurs to me that I'm running Mutt via 'konsole -e mutt&

[gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
me what to do next ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 8/16/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've just bought my first USB memory stick (Kingmax 1 GB ). >> When I insert it into a USB slot, devices appear : >> /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00 ep01 ep82 ep83 >> but when I try

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
-> 2.6.22 , & enable USB storage. Thanks for the hint. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O-

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Philip Webb wrote: > 070816 Florian Philipp wrote: >> USB-sticks appear as SCSI drives. >> That means their block device is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc. >> check if "usb mass storage" is enabled in your kernel. > Yes, that's it presumably : > So I&#

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070818 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: >> On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: >>> I've successfully mounted the stick & copied a file onto it: >>> it seems you have to 'umount

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070819 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 20:13:14 schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> Hello Philip Webb, >>> I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, >>> the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
070820 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 19 August 2007, Philip Webb wrote: >> I copied a series of dirs to my USB stick >> & as each one was done, they took successively longer to finish, >> tho' they were all roughly the same size. It must be something >> to do with

[gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-21 Thread Philip Webb
070821 James wrote: > Philip Webb sympatico.ca> writes: >> (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as >> "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 >> integrated High-definition video processing >> with maximum resolution 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-22 Thread Philip Webb
070822 Florian Philipp wrote: > Philip Webb sympatico.ca> writes: >> (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as >> "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 >> integrated High-definition video processing >> with maximum resol

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
ORAGE' in your kernel, after which you should see 'sda' listed in /dev . Then as root, 'mount /dev/sda /your/chosen/mountpoint' & set the permissions for the latter to allow your user to access it. -- ,,=====

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