Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Philip Webb
060517 Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:32, Philip Webb wrote: >> BTW my problem is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: >> does anyone else experience this & does anyone have a solution ? > Have you tried reducing "scaling" in view settings. Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla won't start after upgrading to 1.7.13

2006-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
o WWW sites. Is it some restriction in gentoo-hardened ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
g out-of-date distfiles by hand. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-29 Thread Philip Webb
e a big 13 GB partition which I call '/z' for making ISOs etc & use /z/tmp as PORTAGE_TMPDIR . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for U

Re: [gentoo-user] Email-based games

2006-05-30 Thread Philip Webb
ot via Internet, eg : http://www.diplom.org/ You should find some very challenging opponents there. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Communi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is Google getting evil?

2006-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
ng this very message & our peaceful, ordered & well-governed country may be targetted (grin)). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban &

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread Philip Webb
er glsa-check -l | grep "\[N\]" -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] pppoe connect problem after updates

2006-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
& CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP in my kernel (2.6.14). Before I recompile the kernel, can anyone confirm that might be the problem ? There's nothing useful on the Forum & I've exhausted my own thoughts: does anyone have any other useful suggestions ? -- ,,

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe connect problem : more

2006-06-05 Thread Philip Webb
060604 Philip Webb wrote: > I've just spent several hours trying permutations to get ADSL to connect > after updating to Baselayout-1.12.0 & Ppp-2.4.3 . > I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example & copied what seem the needed lines : > > config_eth0=( "192.1

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-11 Thread Philip Webb
a bit of trial+error to get it right for your system+ISP. If you really can't get it to work, you can go on using Rp-pppoe: just omit/reverse steps (1-2) & restore your old /etc/conf.d/net ; there's a section in net.example confirming this. -- ==

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
o new versions. Generally, always go through all the etc-updates & keep back-ups of /etc . -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] net.ppp : speed improvement

2006-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] big problem, small solution

2006-06-30 Thread Philip Webb
51 C , rising only to 58 C while successfully compiling GCC 4.1.1 . Hopefully, I won't need to build a new machine till well into 2007 . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] []

[gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

2006-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
Any known-to-work solution ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] escape from hell: kdelibs

2006-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
060702 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:47, Philip Webb wrote: >> I thought I'ld try GCC 4.1.1, Glibc 2.4 & update to KDE 3.5.3 . >> I tried to compile Kdelibs 3.5.3 & got a long series of "can't find" msgs >> followed by

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular block (mozilla V. Seamonkey)

2006-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
e -C mozilla', then 'emerge seamonkey' worked for me. I then remerged Epiphany & Galeon, which depend on one or other of them; I'm assuming that Firefox doesn't, but haven't rebooted yet. -- ,,=======

[gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

2006-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
his while KDE is running, but that hasn't mattered in the past. Does anyone have suggestions or enlightenment, before I file a bug ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

2006-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
060703 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/3/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone have suggestions or enlightenment, before I file a bug ? > Do you have MAKEOPTS=-jN, with N>1? No: I have no MAKEOPTS (that line is commented). > I thought KDE properly supporte

[gentoo-user] kdelibs : solved ! blame confcache !

2006-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
060703 Philip Webb wrote: > (2) I recently added "confcache" to FEATURES : might that affect things ? I removed "confcache" from FEATURES & KDE 3.5.2-r6 emerged successfully ! I'll try 3.5.3 later after some sleep. Is confcache considered stable ? Should I file a

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

2006-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
060703 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/3/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> FEATURES=" ... confcache ... " > confcache has also been known to cause strange problems > and in fact is currently package.mask'ed. Yes, as I now notice: it was "testing

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' & USE flags ?

2006-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
060704 Philip Webb wrote: > So having dropped Confcache, I'll try the whole exercise again. FEI I've successfully updated to GCC 4.1.1 , Glibc 2.4 & KDE 3.5.3 . The only problem is that Krusader fails, but there's a thread on Forum & it is predicted that a new version no

Re: [gentoo-user] Console vanishes after X server is run

2006-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
er X is stopped. I was never able to find out why & long ago accepted it was defective. It now has Mandriva 2005, as I couldn't see to install Slackware. Your best bet mb simply to buy another card. -- ,, SUPPORT

[gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
h fonts. Has anyone else seen this ? Does anyone have suggestions ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060709 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/9/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (1) Konqueror 3.5.3 (3.5.1 3.5.2) displays news sites with an ugly font >> despite 'Standard font = New Century Schoolbook, min/med size 11'; >> there is no problem with Firefox:

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Randall Barlow wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> do you know of a beginners' guide to style sheets anywhere ? > W3Schools has good tutorials for this: > http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp Thanks: I've bookmarked it & will investigate later. Any advice

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/10/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It makes no difference when I select that: any further suggestions ? >> Perhaps I need to change the "system font" somewhere ? > The 'system' font in this case shou

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
' ? I prefer Fixed GNU to Helvetica & it's a pity to have to use the latter simply to avoid an awkward problem when using OO . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror & Open Office : font problems

2006-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
060710 Philip Webb wrote: > 060709 Richard Fish wrote: >> On 7/9/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Konqueror 3.5.3 (3.5.1 3.5.2) displays news sites with an ugly font >>> despite 'Standard font = New Century Schoolbook, min/med size 11';

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
e to gcc 4.1.x from 3.x. I upgraded to 4.1.1 a couple of weeks ago & haven't done a mass recompile & I have yet to run into any problem: yes, there's always tomorrow (grin). -- ,,======== SUPPORT __

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
060719 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 060719 Philip Webb wrote: >> I upgraded to 4.1.1 a couple of weeks ago & haven't done a mass recompile >> & I have yet to run into any problem > I recompiled glibc, to be on the safe side > and KDE because it did have problems, but n

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Philip Webb
temporary array of icons on your desktop representing apps. I have it assigned to L-click & use it for apps I commonly use, but don't have restarted by KDE when it starts up. Apwal deserves to be better known. -- ====,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Philip Webb
er version of KDE, which may do things differently, though again I haven't noticed it. You don't have to put everything in the KDE menu: you can use the miniterminal ( Alt-F2 ), which has a history list. -- ,,==== SUPPORT _

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this cruft in my /tmp?

2006-07-22 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is this cruft in my /tmp?

2006-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
060723 Philip Webb wrote: > 060722 Mick wrote: >> I noticed in /tmp a rather large number of files of the type: >> prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151622697 > It looks like part of the calculation of dependences. > I have a long list roughly

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

2006-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
ts to remerge the same package ! So if nothing is noticeably wrong, just ignore the R-r warnings. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread Philip Webb
called up via Ctl-Alt-F2 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Philip Webb
eviously defined line width. > I cannot find this functionality in vim: is there anything like that? Do you mean ':set lbr' ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
work, you can go on using Rp-pppoe: just omit/reverse steps (1-2) & restore your old /etc/conf.d/net ; there's a section in net.example confirming this. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] .keep

2006-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: > Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, eg esp during a package update. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip W

[gentoo-user] browsing browsers: was Active ?

2006-08-23 Thread Philip Webb
060822 Scott Lampert wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 060822 Lindsay Haisley wrote: >>> Is this list up and running? >>> I haven't received any traffic from it since Aug. 10. >>> Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key >

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole lost bold letters

2006-08-27 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

2006-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.1 with gentoo 2006.1

2006-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
ike it, so you remerge pkgs only when you want to or dependencies demand it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] Bonehead mistake

2006-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
having to reinstall my whole system? http://dev.gentoo.org/~avenj/bins/ -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

2006-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
tils png pop python qt3 readline scanner session slang ssl tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb X xml xv zlib" -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

2006-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
flags, like cdr or gnome, set in brackets? Not here : [ebuild N ] media-video/dvdrip-0.52.7-r1 \ USE="cdr -gnome -mplayer -ogg -rar -subtitles -xvid" 513 kB -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

2006-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
060912 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:50, Philip Webb wrote: >> I also get >> equery depends evolution-data-server >> [ Searching for packages depending on evolution-data-server... ] >> app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 >> So it looks

[gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-20 Thread Philip Webb
rom a previous reply here), but it didn't make any difference. Does anyone have a helpful suggestion ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Co

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060921 Andrew Frink wrote: > On 9/20/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've just updated to modular X & everything seems to be working, >> except that after Ctl-Alt-F2 I can't get back to X with Ctl-Alt-F7 . >> I can get back to the original

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails (solved)

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060922 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, >> when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 & 2 . > Because on most machines inittab tells init to start agetty > on the first six VTs, and X

[gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060922 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 22 September 2006 02:35, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've updated to modular X >> and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? >> root: X11> pwd >> /etc/X11 >> root: X11> ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-22 Thread Philip Webb
060921 Philip Webb wrote: > I've updated to modular X > and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? Modular X does create its own version on the fly, but it's better to have the file in /etc/X11 in case of further change. On the raw console (outsid

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions

2006-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
a quick pointer to where to find them, so that I can comment them out of whatever file they're mentioned in ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions

2006-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
060923 Ted Ozolins wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> (2) I compiled the sensor items into the kernel, not as modules, >> but I'm now left with 2 orphan module lines when Init runs: >> "loading lm_sensors modules ... [!!] ". >> I've looked around, but

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions : 1 answered

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
060923 Philip Webb wrote: > I've successfully installed Kernel 2.6.18 > -- is it imagination or is it a bit faster on this desktop ? -- , > but there are a couple of simple questions I'm not sure how to answer. > (1) I used 'make xconfig' & it didn't show

[gentoo-user] modular X : all's well + a suggestion

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
the Forum). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
060924 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote >> I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, >> Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session, >> so perhaps the command to return uses t

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get vi!?

2006-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
e Vi, Vim has a setting to make it so, but why would anyone want that ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSI

Re: [gentoo-user] elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
ersion of Portage. Perhaps someone should report it: it's not a high priority for me. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
060925 Richard Fish wrote: > On 9/25/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can either of you post your make.conf please? You asked (smile): # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
em & find out (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to build during revdep-rebuild

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
upto-date & try again. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread Philip Webb
a few big PDFs -- perhaps c 20 MB ea -- & the big ones simply stay where I put them, so no changes to handle. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Tor

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory.

2017-10-16 Thread Philip Webb
ilable Mem:790611805271 13914546041 Swap: 8191 08191 root:529 ~> uptime 21:28:07 up 1 day, 20:43, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.02 -- ,, SUPPORT _

Re: [gentoo-user] The uselessness of equery

2017-10-16 Thread Philip Webb
.4.0 (/usr/bin/equery -> ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2) real0m3.776s user0m3.651s sys 0m0.092s How reliable is 'time' (smile) ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

[gentoo-user] Python 3.5

2017-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
ce '3_4' '3.4' with '3_5' '3.5' ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-10-29 Thread Philip Webb
enabled. What is the purpose of the long list of SANE_BACKENDS, if Xsane finds the correct driver with none enabled ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-10-31 Thread Philip Webb
171030 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:39:31 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> 'sane-backends-1.0.27' just stabilised, so I updated to it. >> Previously I had selected 4 items from the list in SANE_BACKENDS, >> which is shown by 'emerge', ie

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-01 Thread Philip Webb
sane/libsane-dll.so.1.0.27 root:553 log> -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-01 Thread Philip Webb
171101 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane' >> Here all I get is : >> root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane >> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
've now done. Thanks for Neil's suggestions. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] boost-1.63 dependency confusion

2017-11-11 Thread Philip Webb
t be updating this one, as I don't want to rebuild Libreoffice. BTW in 14 yr using Gentoo, I've never done 'emerge ... world' without '-p'. I always emerge pkgs individually or at most a few related ones together. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
#x27;re at it (grin), 'e.g.' has the same force as 'etc', so it's duplicating effort to write 'e.g. fire, flood etc'. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
180201 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:47:57 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> And while we're at it (grin), 'e.g.' has the same force as 'etc', >> so it's duplicating effort to write 'e.g. fire, flood etc'. > 'etc' is fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-03 Thread Philip Webb
'that' was the original relative pronoun, while 'which' came only later. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Gentoo in a VM

2018-03-05 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] A new AMD CPU weakness?

2018-03-13 Thread Philip Webb
180313 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > https://v.gd/PZkiuR > Does anyone know more details? See LWN. It is being described as a scam by people shorting AMD stock. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb EL

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox with tab-grouping

2018-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
>= 57 ? Does any other browser -- Waterfox ? -- provide them in any form ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-02 Thread Philip Webb
ange spaces in my editor (emacs 24) > when I start replying to him and quote his material. No problem with Vim. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-02 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mutt database option

2018-04-08 Thread Philip Webb
always used Most as pager with Mutt : it's easy to set that up. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] weird goings-on with Firefox

2018-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
e here, but instead am recording the facts in case they help someone else. Comments welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRA

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 recovery

2018-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
> Is it possible somehow to "take over" the original X11 session, > which is still running in the background > to cleanly ending the tasks running and waiting for my input? I suspect there is a way to do that, but I don't know how. -- =====

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE VM Plasmashell corrupt

2018-05-22 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Weird firefox

2018-06-02 Thread Philip Webb
splays in an empty tab. My desktop manager is KDE. Does this work for you ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1

2018-06-09 Thread Philip Webb
is 4.9.16-gentoo. Has anyone else run into this ? Any other advice or comments ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc failed to compile, mpfr-4 compiled successfully...

2018-06-24 Thread Philip Webb
amp; I wb using it for next week's upgrade. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources : stable versions

2018-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources : stable versions

2018-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
180626 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:58 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> Does anyone know why the latest stable version of Gentoo-sources is 4.9.xx ? >> I installed 4.9.16 , which I continue to use, on 2017-04-06 . >> The tree contains versions of 4.14 4.16 4.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources : stable versions

2018-06-30 Thread Philip Webb
180626 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:58 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> Does anyone know why the latest stable version of Gentoo-sources is 4.9.xx ? >> I installed 4.9.16 , which I continue to use, on 2017-04-06 . >> The tree contains versions of 4.14 4.16 4.1

[gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

2018-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

2018-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
180703 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted : >> one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a spreadsheet ( .ods ). >> I haven't used encryption like this before

Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

2018-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
180703 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted : >> one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a spreadsheet ( .ods ). >> I haven't used encryption like this before

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1

2018-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
180610 Philip Webb wrote: > I updated to the latest stable Nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1 , > rebooted & 'startx' : > the result was an X error "No devices detected ... no screens found". > Downgrading to 390.48 got X working again. > Nothing to see on the Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1

2018-07-15 Thread Philip Webb
180709 Davyd McColl wrote: > 180610 Philip Webb wrote: >> I updated to the latest stable Nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1 , >> rebooted & 'startx' : >> the result was an X error "No devices detected ... no screens found". >> I updated to kernel 4.14.52

[gentoo-user] scanner problem

2018-07-16 Thread Philip Webb
ib64/sane/archive/libsane-epkowa.so.1 /usr/lib64/sane/archive/libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15 My user is a member of the 'scanner' group : scanner:x:104:purslow I am puzzled : does anyone have a suggestion what to do next ? -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

2018-07-18 Thread Philip Webb
012 : see esp # 20 & # 144 . (9) Vuescan is a possible alternative : does anyone have experience ? Further thoughts from anyone are very welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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