Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
ks correct. I can e-mail you the full dir list, if I have your personal e-ddress. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
anyone know ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
070615 Andrea Bona wrote: > 070614 Philip Webb wrote: >> what does [I] mean ? and where are these letters documented ? > I think that [I] means that the package is already installed. Yes, that seems intuitive & matches experience; it's part of Eix (not Portage) & do

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.7 : slow shutdown

2007-06-17 Thread Philip Webb
. Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have helpful suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-22 Thread Philip Webb
to compile OO ( 5 hr here). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: "A file listed in the Manifest could not be found"

2007-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
irst try is to resync. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
ly suspect. It's very recent (see bug 183887). I have version 6 : try restoring that & see what happens ('emerge =kde-base/kdebase-pam-6'). You should also look in /etc/pam.d/ for further clues. -- ,,======== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
your existing KDE material, then remerging the latest 3.5.7 (which I've been using since 070610) using whatever individual packages you need. Then keep it upto-date. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
here is *no* other distro that has a package management system that is > better than portage, IMHO. So, thanks from me to all the devs! :-) Thirded (smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2012-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
30 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 11:41:57 Philip Webb wrote: >> A further question: since I had previously updated /etc/conf.d/net , >> I was given a router by my ISP & therefore started to use DHCP. >> The new net.example file suggests I might mak

[gentoo-user] PDF puzzle

2012-01-13 Thread Philip Webb
the size of the PDF created with a test run of Ps2pdf ; the .ps file created with LO & then used for the latter is even bigger. Can anyone explain what is going on ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF puzzle

2012-01-13 Thread Philip Webb
120113 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:32:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice. >> I was reminded of 'ps2pdf': the result is these 4 files : >> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users34

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PDF puzzle

2012-01-13 Thread Philip Webb
120113 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/13/2012 12:32 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >>-rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users 366711 Jan 13 04:05 boox.pdf >>-rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow 67184 Jan 13 04:07 boox-test.pdf >> the PDF created with LO direct export is 5 times >> the s

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF puzzle

2012-01-13 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] PDF puzzle : files available

2012-01-13 Thread Philip Webb
120113 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 13.01.2012 11:32, schrieb Philip Webb: >> I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice. >> I was reminded of 'ps2pdf', which resulted in : >> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users34475 Jan 12 07:52 boox

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF puzzle

2012-01-13 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] PDF puzzle : files available

2012-01-14 Thread Philip Webb
est/ so you can see what happens on your system with my original .odt version & hopefully let us know the result. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Universi

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF puzzle

2012-01-14 Thread Philip Webb
120114 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 14.01.2012 04:21, schrieb Philip Webb: >> 120113 Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Try the pdfdebugger provided by dev-java/pdfbox to inspect both files. >> That needs Java, which I am definitely not going to re-install (smile). > Well, I&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PDF puzzle

2012-01-14 Thread Philip Webb
ffonts, as I reported in another msg. That seems to be the cause of the difference in size. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-

Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install

2012-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
e pkgs Portage wants to update & shows the order in which it plans to tackle them : you can use that to do a few pkgs at a time & as you do them, check the output, warnings etc. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Phi

[gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Webb
so, I compiled LO 3.4.3.2-r1 with USE="pdfimport", but it refuses actually to import a PDF when presented with one. Does anyone know if/how it is possible to get that to work as well ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT _

[gentoo-user] managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Webb
there's a log file 'Packages' in the dir, which suggests there sb some method of removing unwanted ones. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice : solved

2012-01-23 Thread Philip Webb
n't need Java for PDFs in LO. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

2012-01-23 Thread Philip Webb
120122 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Besides having rescue instances of system pkgs in /usr/portage/packages , >> I also try to remember to keep a quickpkg of LibreOffice there too. >> Creating these files is easy, but is there an approved way of managing them, >&g

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-27 Thread Philip Webb
There is a fork of some kind at https://github.com/rbrito/xpdf-poppler , which is given as the contact by 'eix'. I very much hope there is at least an alternative or otherwise some reconsideration of removing Xpdf from Gentoo. -- ,,======

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
nything else I will need, if I decide to go that route ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
story. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
ry emerging 0.1.8 , which is what I have. Also, I don't use the 'nls' flag, so try '-nls' too if necessary. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
ed to use to manage them. Like your other advisor, I never automount devices (with Fluxbox), but goto my Root desktop & manually mount them from there. Mtools takes care of all that, however, for diskettes. -- ,, SUPPORT ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding recent poppler down-/upgrade...

2012-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
atest Testing. I'm conservative re system + similar pkgs, so still use 0.16.7 . -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TR

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
120129 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2012 00:01:50 Philip Webb wrote: >> Below is the output from 'localepurge' after this week's system update. >> Please don't drop it till 'should' does = 'does'. > the vast majority of tha

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
n-interesting language directories in the image. Thanks for the useful & polite response. I will look into LINGUAS. How to set it is not mentioned in make.conf.example or in man make.conf : where is it documented ? -- ,,======

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping localepurge

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
120130 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On E, 2012-01-30 at 06:56 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> Thanks for the useful & polite response. I will look into LINGUAS. >> How to set it is not mentioned in make.conf.example or in man make.conf : >> where is it documented ? > http:/

[gentoo-user] Konsole question

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
tried to find where the browser to open is configured, but can't. Have I missed a setting somewhere or is this a KDE bug I should report ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Citi

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole question

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
120130 YoYo Siska wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 07:51:45AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >>> When an URL appears in a console, it is usually possible to R-click, >>> then choose 'open link' & a browser(

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konsole question : solved

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
120130 Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On 2012.01.30 at 12:33 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> 120130 YoYo Siska wrote: >>> Konsole should open the default browser set in KDE. >>> You can check that in systemsettings -> Workspace Appearance and Behavior >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konsole question : solved

2012-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
120130 Philip Webb wrote: > 120130 Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: >> On 2012.01.30 at 12:33 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >>> 120130 YoYo Siska wrote: >>>> Konsole should open the default browser set in KDE. >>>> You can check that in systemsettings -> Work

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove the "clear screen" just before login

2012-02-03 Thread Philip Webb
: /etc/bash/bash_login . Both replies are interesting, but incomplete : (1) to which line in inittab do we add '--noclear' ? (2) what do we put in bash_login ? -- 'man bash' doesn't help. I'm still using earlier versions of Openrc & Util-linux & don't want to

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails

2012-02-19 Thread Philip Webb
ually easier to read + search than the internal help. HTH -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-21 Thread Philip Webb
mory. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
120223 Willie WY Wong wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:22:27PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: >> I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems : >> it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage >> & most/all of my 2 GB memory. > Argh. 3.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
lace Flash long before then ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
e a difference. Does anyone know if & how accented characters cb entered in KDE apps ? -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
120226 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 03:32:58 schrieb Philip Webb: >> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . >> Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, >> but there&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
120226 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> In Gvim I can enter 'e-umlaut' via the keystrokes 'control-k e : ', ie ë . >> Kate has a Vi mode, which seems to reproduce Vim fairly well, >> but there's no sign of 'control-k' or any sub

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-27 Thread Philip Webb
I have submitted Gentoo bug 406047 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
KDE, Geeqie mb a useable alternative. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
120308 Daddy wrote: > On March 8, 2012 at 10:38 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> I use Gwenview to review collections & Feh to browse from a terminal: > Yeah, that was it ... feh. Now to figure out how to keep > that page of thumbnails from overflowing my 1600x900 Fluxbox desktop.

[gentoo-user] KDE compose key with Fluxbox

2012-04-09 Thread Philip Webb
that it starts with Fluxbox ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE compose key with Fluxbox

2012-04-10 Thread Philip Webb
120409 Mick wrote: > On Monday 09 Apr 2012 20:35:33 Philip Webb wrote: >> The gruesome details cb found in KDE bug 294949 . > I add the second keyboard as Option "XkbLayout" in my xorg.conf > and Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

[gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
without going thro' a partial re-install or do I need to do a change-root etc to get it to work ? Can anyone advise ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, U

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
120420 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Freitag, 20. April 2012, 05:25:58 schrieb Philip Webb: >> My motherboard went on the blink earlier this week. >> I've now successfully installed a new one, >> but now can't get the kernel to find the SATA hard disk ("803 e

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI

2012-04-21 Thread Philip Webb
120421 pk wrote: > On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote: >> It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says : > the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines > with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI. That's important to he

Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI [SOLVED]

2012-04-21 Thread Philip Webb
120421 Graham Murray wrote: > pk writes: >> On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote: >>> It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says : >> the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines >> with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem t

[gentoo-user] new mobo : no Eth0

2012-04-21 Thread Philip Webb
bit LAN"; a mobo review via Google mentions "LAN: Qualcomm Atheros Gb LAN". The mobo is P5G41T-M LX PLUS by Asus. Does anyone have suggestions ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Phi

[gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-21 Thread Philip Webb
ist came thro' yet again : I hope I sometimes manage to help others with similar problems. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-21 Thread Philip Webb
120421 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> You actually have to remove the offensive file >> from the dir, not simply rename it to 'xx70xx...' ! > That's the same way files in /etc/portage/ works too. > I do wish we could put a # on the front to make it ignore

[gentoo-user] a gentoo hatchday

2012-05-02 Thread Philip Webb
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1172052--penguin-celebrates-record-breaking-milestone-in-montreal -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

[gentoo-user] no /usr , no problem

2012-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
ve procedure carefully, the system came back & everything is now working normally, incl Portage. YMMV, so make sure you design your own procedure to fit your own needs. HTH a few users. -- ,, SU

[gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
successfully & what did they use ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2012-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
120510 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, >> which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; >> I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. >> Now I want to reasse

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

2012-05-12 Thread Philip Webb
he lives, so that wb my starting-point. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
& can update Udev without any worries when it becomes stable. HTH -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2012-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
se photos ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2012-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
it can do soon : it has 'layers', which look like what is needed. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2012-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
120515 Philip Webb wrote: > 120515 Urs Schutz wrote: >> I just tried with fotoxx. >> This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. I've installed Fotoxx & it does a very good job ! >> The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg. There's n

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

2012-05-16 Thread Philip Webb
120516 Urs Schutz wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 00:12:25 -0400 > Philip Webb wrote: >> I can't find out how to turn it into a rectangle. > Transform -> Unbend Image > Play with the vertical values, this is very easy, fast and > intuitive. With brum-3.jpg the best combi

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

2012-05-16 Thread Philip Webb
120516 Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I tried Hugin, but got nowhere.  I set  6  points on each picture, >> which are  2  overlapping parts of a single original negative, >> but all it offered was a black screen; I did follow the

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

2012-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
120517 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On May 17, 2012 1:07 PM, "Stroller" wrote: >> On 17 May 2012, at 05:34, Philip Webb wrote: >>> Please do (smile) & send me the result off-list >>> with the steps you followed to get there. >> I have been really enjo

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

2012-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
ctly before) in May 1953 just before the final trams. The photo was taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera, a well-reputed make : perhaps you can find the focal width on the I/net somewhere. -- ,,==== SUPPORT

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

2012-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
amp; can serve as a resource for anyone searching the I/net for advice how to make a panorama from smaller images, but we shouldn't take it too far & images themselves belong elsewhere. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___,

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

2012-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
doing the stitch a few times, > each time telling Hugin the lens is 47mm, 48mm, 49mm, … 51mm, … 53mm. > Perhaps you may find that one of those is perfectly spot on. Thanks for the further lesson ! -- it sb tried at 75 mm . -- ,,=

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

2012-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
#x27; file ? -- I downloaded it & it's text. > And the final stitch is here: > http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2030/brum3068brum30702.jpg All Firefox gives me is a black window : can you check ? -- ,,=======

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop colors and widgets are weird after update

2012-05-22 Thread Philip Webb
ported in 4.10 . I use Fluxbox, but have used Xfce4 in the past & it sb ok once you get the latest version properly configured. I updated to Qt 4.8.1 recently & haven't had any problems there. -- ,, SUPPORT

[gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
he same one over & over -- , so I've given up on it. Hopefully eventually, they'll get things together : I used Mandrake 2000-3 , before I moved to Gentoo. HTH a few others. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] KDE 3 : a nasty problem

2012-06-10 Thread Philip Webb
(big smile). However, I can't test 'kdelibs 3' again without unmerging 'mDNSResponder', so it's not nice to try to submit a bug & anyway how far are KDE Sunset bugs taken seriously ? Does anyone have advice ? -- ========,,=

[gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
compiler.h system_info.h system_misc.h . Also the Ethernet kernel config lines have changed a bit & I had to ask explicitly for my mobo's version with 'r8169'. HTH others -- ,, SUPPORT ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-15 Thread Philip Webb
120615 microcai wrote: > 2012/6/15 Philip Webb >> after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wouldn't compile. >> The solution (via Google + Launchpad bugzilla) is to copy 4 header files >> from /usr/src/linux/arch/arm/include/asm to -/-/-/-/x86/include/asm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-18 Thread Philip Webb
120615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > 2012/6/15 Philip Webb >> after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wouldn't compile. > I can see that 295.53 and 295.59 are available. Use 295.59. I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 &a

[gentoo-user] Adobe vs Gnash

2012-06-18 Thread Philip Webb
rience with these or any advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Oszkár Ocsenás

2012-06-19 Thread Philip Webb
sh or anything else. I'll try tuning them up when I have a bit of spare time, but my feeling after 9 yr is that Gentoo is the easiest distro to use. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Phi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
120621 Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 18.06.2012 11:29, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 & it's working ok so far. > that there is a bug that affects lots of people with 302.xx: > X-console-switch and resume-from-suspend are broken. >

[gentoo-user] I/net server throttling

2012-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
any comments ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling

2012-06-22 Thread Philip Webb
120622 Mick wrote: > On Friday 22 Jun 2012 05:41:14 Philip Webb wrote: >> In recent weeks, I've seen many instances of downloads of files >> coming in small segments, which seem to be the same for each server, >> but vary between different servers. Some Gentoo mirrors

[gentoo-user] lots of X pkgs no longer needed

2012-06-24 Thread Philip Webb
explanation or other comment ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling

2012-07-01 Thread Philip Webb
he Internet is ordinarily responsive at the moment here. Has anyone else come across this ? Any thoughts or comments ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling

2012-07-01 Thread Philip Webb
ith my ISP once I've clarified other aspects. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling

2012-07-01 Thread Philip Webb
120701 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> So 2 conclusions for me : (1) yes, servers do impose time-slices ; >> (2) my basic problem remains the very low bandwidth I'm getting, >> which I have to take up with my ISP once I&

Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling

2012-07-01 Thread Philip Webb
120701 Philip Webb wrote: > Well, the simpler alternative in my case wb to use the UoT service. > I can 'ssh' into a CLI on the CHASS machine, which runs Irix, > then use 'wget' from there with a very fast connection. > Downloading a file from there to here wo

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-09 Thread Philip Webb
110210 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:09:14 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) I never use testing versions of system pkgs like Glibc & > Someone has to or they'll never get tested. Come on ! -- not on a production system ! >> (2) I have FEATURES="bu

[gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-16 Thread Philip Webb
110215 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I recently put some files at  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . >> One of them is  README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents >> using SSh or Krusader, but whi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-16 Thread Philip Webb
110216 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I recently put some files at  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . >> One of them is  README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents >> using SSh or Krusader, but whi

[gentoo-user] irritating cron habit

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
110220 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 20.02.2011 15:04, schrieb Philip Webb: >> I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security. >> Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs >> before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection

Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved

2011-02-20 Thread Philip Webb
110220 Philip Webb wrote: > 110220 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Just change your cron job to look like >> 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid && fetchmail' > That's by far the simplest & it still fetches the mail, > so we'll see if it also avoids the oc

[gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-25 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-25 Thread Philip Webb
110325 Alex Schuster wrote: > Philip Webb writes: >> In /var/log/ there is a file wtmp , which is 24 MB & owned by utmp >> . It is in binary format & is updated when I reboot. >> Can anyone explain what it's for & whether it cb safely deleted ? >

Re: [gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-26 Thread Philip Webb
110325 Alex Schuster wrote: > Philip Webb writes: >> In  /var/log/  there is a file  wtmp , which is  24 MB  & owned by  utmp >> Can anyone explain what it's for & whether it cb safely deleted ? > It tracks logins, you can use the 'last' command to show its

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