[gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, my konqueror does not support the protocol "devices". Which library am I missing? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 18:00, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > my konqueror does not support the protocol "devices". Which > > library am I missing? > > maybe emerge -pv kdebase will show you use flags which have > been disabled during compile time? It doesn't really reveal anything interesting: [ebu

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 12:35, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > my konqueror does not support the protocol "devices". Which library am I > > missing? > > Use media:/ Hmm... That leads to a gross inconsistency because the

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 18:43, Richard Fish wrote: > > Here is a script to do it: > > cat /var/lib/portage/world | \ > while read line; do > count=`equery depends "$line" | wc -l` > test $count -gt 0 && echo $line > done > > This will output every package listed in world

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 10:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:36:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hmm... That leads to a gross inconsistency because the sidebar offers > > "devices" resulting in that error message that konqueror doesn't > > suppor

[gentoo-user] jdk / openoffice

2005-06-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody else seeing this? "emerge --update world" emerges blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02, it gets installed, 1.4.2.01 gets nuked, env-update runs. Afterwards, the relevant variables in /etc/profile.env are still pointing to the (removed) 1.4.2.01 and, as a result, OpenOffice fails to compile

[gentoo-user] Re: jdk / openoffice

2005-06-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 18 June 2005 18:48, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi folks, > > anybody else seeing this? "emerge --update world" emerges > blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02, it gets installed, 1.4.2.01 gets nuked, env-update > runs. Afterwards, the relevant variables in /etc/profile.env ar

[gentoo-user] win32codecs / mplayer

2005-06-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, win32codecs are installed under /usr/lib/win32 but mplayer gets compiled without support for them. Can anybody tell what I am missing? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated:

[gentoo-user] kuser

2005-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, kuser of KDE-3.4.1 is crashing on start-up. I looked around in KDE's ug db but didn't find it mentioned. So it doesn't seem to be a general problem. That leaves two possibilities: It's a Gentoo problem or my system is messed. Anybody else experiencing the same thing? I am in the proc

Re: [gentoo-user] kuser

2005-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 03 July 2005 13:20, Zac Medico wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > kuser of KDE-3.4.1 is crashing on start-up. I looked around in KDE's ug > > db but didn't find it mentioned. So it doesn't seem to be a general > > problem. That

Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 03 July 2005 14:27, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing > to shutdown..?? Shuts down fine here. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (la

Re: [gentoo-user] best download manager in gentoo

2005-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 12:45, simply change wrote: > hi! dear all, > > i need emerge a download manager appz. so can any one help me to find a > good 1? (with a good GUI) If you are using KDE anyway, have a look at kget. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all s

[gentoo-user] deltup / file sizes

2005-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
Nothing really importan, I am just curious: Anybody in the know why deltup sometimes reports file sizes and sometimes not when downloading a diff? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 18:40, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: > > $ equery b $(which kfm) kfm doesn't exist any more. Actually, it hasn't vor a long time. It used to be the file and web browser in KDE 1.0 and was replaced by konquero

[gentoo-user] still struggeling with kuser

2005-07-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I am still struggeling with kuser as of KDE 3.4.1 crashing on start-up. Attached you'll find an strace of kuser. It get's interesting around line 1773. The last system call is uname(), apparently with the right parameters. Uname() returns 0 which means "successful". Next thing is it g

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/ss breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 08 July 2005 16:52, Ron Bickers wrote: > On Fri July 8 2005 01:38 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Which is a huge bummer since most of us don't go checking the ebuilds > > for these specific lines. How I wish It would just abort and BLAST the > > Einfo on the screen for me to see the next day

[gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, "verbose mode" of fbsplash doesn't seem to work any more. If I press F2 during the boot process or switch to a text console after booting the background is black instead of showing my specified picture. Same behaviour for the themes emergence, gentoo and my own one. I skipped a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 10 July 2005 18:21, Richard Fish wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >"verbose mode" of fbsplash doesn't seem to work any more. If I press F2 > > during the boot process or switch to a text console after booting the > > background

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 10 July 2005 18:39, Manuel McLure wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > "verbose mode" of fbsplash doesn't seem to work any more. If I press F2 > > during the boot process or switch to a text console after booting the > > bac

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 10 July 2005 21:07, Manuel McLure wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Still no joy. Same behaviour as before. :-( > > > > Actually, I wouldn't give a rat's ass for it but this is for a customer, > > and looks are important. > > Did you update the

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice / localisation

2005-07-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I've got a couple of questions regarding localisation. 1. OO and English If I set OO to either British or South African English the spellchecker still accepts American spelling which is wrong in Namibia. Anybody in the know how to make it stick to British spelling? 2. OO and currency

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing directories with size greater than...

2005-07-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 July 2005 15:17, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > I need some help with listing home directories that are greater than i > given size. I have tried > find /home -type d -size +5k > and > find /home -type d -size +5k -iname "*" > Both without much success... du -k --max-depth=1 /home | sort -nrk

[gentoo-user] perl's Chatbot::Eliza

2007-12-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, any idea whether portage contains perl's Chatbot::Eliza. And if so, where I can find it? I looked around in portage but couldn't find it. Maybe it just isn't there. Uwe -- If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman listens to him, is he still lying? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] perl's Chatbot::Eliza

2007-12-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 December 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2007 schrieb Uwe Thiem: > > any idea whether portage contains perl's Chatbot::Eliza. And if so, where > > I can find it? > > > > I looked around in portage but couldn't find it. Maybe it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 January 2008, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > James wrote: > > In my mind I'm an accomplished person. In her mind I'm just another > > stupid EE, > > Hey James - > > Interesting post - this eludes me tho, what is an EE? Electronic Engineer? Uwe -- If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman listens

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A poorly developed sense of how to deal with other people coupled with > never having realised that people are not machines, do not react like > machines and need to be handled differently. You maintain machines by > focusing on what is wrong with them an

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, after the painful and time-consuming creation of /etc/portage/package.unmask for KDE 4,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > after the painful and time-consuming creation of > > /etc/portage/package.unmask for KDE 4, > "=kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0" tells me: [blocks B ] > > > kde-base/kdelibs-4.0.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2008, Paul Salters wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2008 16:52:45 Δημήτριος Ροπόκης wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:42:55 +0200, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > >> Hi folks, > > >> > > >> after th

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:32:13 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > [blocks B ] > kde-base/kdelibs-4.0.0) > > > > I do not have emerge kdebase-3.5.7 but kdebase-3.5.8. The3refore, I > > cannot unemerge 3.5.7. How can I work around

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > ??? > > > > According to emerge, kdebase-3.5.7-r6 is *blocking* kdelibs-4.0.0. See my > > original post. > > > > Uwe > > I can't find it but I read somewhere that portage wants at least >

[gentoo-user] xorg / keyboard

2008-01-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, somehow I have messed up my xorg configuration. The block of sic buttons from "Insert" to "Page Down" and the four separate3 arrow key (up, left, down, right) don't work or don't work as expected. For example, "up" invokes ksnapshot, the others don't do anything. My keyboard is a US 1

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:39:41 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > BIG thanks! And a Hansa draught will be ready for you if you > > > ever visit Namibia. ;-) > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2008, Dale wrote: > Now to spend the next couple days downloading all the KDE 4.0 stuff. > Stinking dial-up. :-@ That will take a lng while. Most KDE4 packages are far larger than there KDE3 counterparts. Just as an example: kdebase-3.3.8.tar.bz2 was 24MB. Now we have three

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2008, Dale wrote: > Now to spend the next couple days downloading all the KDE 4.0 stuff. > Stinking dial-up. :-@ On a second thought: Can't a kind soul in the US send Dale the tarballs on a CD? (I'd do it, but it would take forever from here.) Uwe -- If a man speaks in a forest

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for kdeartwork-colorschemes ??

2008-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > My portage-fu is apparently up the creek. Again. > > Trying to emerge kde-4.0.0, I get this: > > == > nazgul ~ # emerge -av kde-meta > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies | * >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008, Dale wrote: > > I wish I lived in Utopia. LOL :-p Well, I made some progress while > > I > > > > was napping. I'm here now: > > >>> Emerging (31 of 205) kde-base/libkdeedu-4.0.0 to / > > >>> Downloading > > > > 'ftp://ftp.uss

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2008, Justin Findlay wrote: > I pay $40/month for 14 Mib up and down and I can run it at max > throughput indefinitely. I seeded all 92 gentoo torrents for a month > once to test this out. :-) Here in Utah, USA we have the largest > community fiber network in the country called UTO

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED No ebuild for kdeartwork-colorschemes ??

2008-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 20 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > My portage-fu is apparently up the creek. Again. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2008, Dave Oxley wrote: > I've got KDE4 installed and running mostly fine. It loses some > configuration on a log off and on and it shows 2 batteries rather than > the 1 which is the only one the laptop has! But other than that switched > to it by default now. For me, kmail does not

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 January 2008, Wayn0 wrote: > Now back on topic, I have never really been a KDE users in the past. > I always stuck to openbox or GNOME. However there seems to be a lot of > hype around the new KDE and I think I am gonna give it a go. KDE 4.0.0 is far from being as feature-rich as 3.5.x. It

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday 21 January 2008 08:42:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. > > > kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway? > > > > Does that

[gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

2008-01-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, About KDE 4.0.0. I have formerly reported that konsole would crash on startup and kamil would not start at all. It's all solved by now. The problem with konsole was all my fault. I crated the test user for KDE4 without a shell. ;-( Dunno, how this could have happened but it did. I ga

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

2008-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote: > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for > www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason. Could it be you made it its startup page? Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Process on server, print on client

2008-02-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 01 February 2008, Grant wrote: > I'm currently processing orders one by one and I'd like to increase > automation. I'm currently submitting an order number from my > desktop to my server via firefox, and manually opening and printing > the resultant receipt and shipping label. How would

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Grant wrote: > > > I thought CUPS was *the* way to print on Linux. Is there > > > another solution that would work better with Net::Printer? > > > > CUPS is the latest in a long string of different print systems, > > all trying to solve this infernally difficult probl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 again

2008-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2008 22:50:13 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > did you try 4.0.0 or 4.0.1? I think the newer is hardmasked by > > now, or at least it should be soon > > This is 4.0.0. I don't think 4.0.1 has had a chance to work its way > thro

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs-4.0.1 complaining about missing accessibility use flag

2008-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 08 February 2008, Erik wrote: > When I try to emerge kdelibs-4.0.1 it says: "x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_rc1 > does not actually support the accessibility USE flag!" You should not try to link KDE 4.0.1 against Qt 4.4 but 4.3. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx

[gentoo-user] qdbusxml2cpp

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
I am trying to port a KDE3 application to KDE4. Cmake gives me this error: CMake Error: Qt4 qdbusxml2cpp was not found. Make sure it has been built and installed by Qt And indeed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -d qt* qt2text qt3to4 qtbz2 qtconfig qtdechunk qtdemo qtdump qtinfo qtrech

Re: [gentoo-user] qdbusxml2cpp

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 09 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 9 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Saturday 9 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > How do I make Qt install "qdbusxml2cpp"? > > > > The name suggests something dbus- or xml- relate

Re: [gentoo-user] qdbusxml2cpp

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 09 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 9 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > I am trying to port a KDE3 application to KDE4. Cmake gives me > > this error: > > > > CMake Error: Qt4 qdbusxml2cpp was not found. Make sure it has > > been buil

Re: [gentoo-user] qdbusxml2cpp

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 09 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 9 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > I am trying to port a KDE3 application to KDE4. Cmake gives me > > this error: > > > > CMake Error: Qt4 qdbusxml2cpp was not found. Make sure it has > > been buil

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi, > > my 2 cents: > | So if for example I copied everything over to a different hard > | drive and then copied everything back, it would be "defragmented" > | then? > > I think so yes, but still I would not do it as I think you will > hardly not

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: > I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with the > /data partition. I store pictures and documents there and it was > fragmented. I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted partition then > remade the file system and copied it back using b

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: > >> I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with > >> the /data partition. I store pictures and documents there and > >> it was frag

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: > Now I remember why I stopped using prelink: > > "The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a > library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable." I only prelink after major updates. Never had any problems in between. > > I knew ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Yes, everything will be defragmented. In addition, it will leave > > gaps between files. So if a file lateron grows it will not > > immediately fragment. > > Which wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: > I also attached a copy of the program I used. I think I got it off > the forums. Maybe some guru can improve it a little. ;-) Not me. Perl has been invented to generate reports from log files or such. It is not a general purpose language, though ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > >> That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into > > >> fragment

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) > > > > pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted > > ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in > > the mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, Aaron Clark wrote: > xfs: high performance, especially when dealing with many large or > small files; Gets along very well with raid arrays. Noticeably > higher cpu usage than ext3/jfs. IIRC, it aggressively caches its > writes so there is a slight possibility of data

Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

2008-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:22:19 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: > >>> I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to > >>> chown all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ? > >>> Thanks > >> > >> With recursion:

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 21 February 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > > Current CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" > > > I want to add "-fomit-frame-pointer" to my > CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running > for months. > > > Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with > somelike "emerge -e" ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server > (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder > using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run > a dnet-client. > > Then I've got a l

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Since nobody seems to have an idea, maybe someone can tell me how I > allow processes with real-time priority (nice -n -20) to be started > by an ordinary user? Of course I'm aware of sudo but I don't want a > simple media encoder to have super-

Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

2008-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > /me thinks it's time to remember that only livestock are supposed > to get Foot and Mouth disease, not geeks People (including geeks) can get it as well. It's hard but possible to get infected. Sieve the spores out of your soil. Then inhale

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the > > problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end > > all that data would still have to move from the server to your > > local machine anyway. > > But I can save the time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

2008-03-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 03 March 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 3 Mar 2008, at 09:57, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Monday 3 March 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: > >> NOTE: I don't speak spanish. But somehow, I read it thusly: > >> On Mon, 03. Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spammed my inbox with > >> > >>> todos los temas relacionad

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do port-based routing?

2008-03-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 03 March 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to do port-based routing. I found > a HOWTO that does pretty much exactly what I'm trying to do: > > http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/iproute2.html > > However, it's using iptables, which I thought was deprecated, Not to my kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > Here is the output of my cpuinfo, I'll point out where it will mean > 64bit. For the sake of this demonstration, I have only pasted one > (1) CPU. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: > I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in > all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo. You and everybody else. Plus tons of ram, 1TB storage and a good graphics subsystem. Yeah! Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Nam

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I also see that kde-4.0.2 just hit portage, complete with 345M of > sources to be downloaded. It's compiling here right now. On two boxes using distcc. BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup. > The other lads in the of

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > KDE 3 is known for its long build times. Thanks to the new build > system, KDE 4 builds orders of magnitude faster (kdelibs 4 build > takes way less than an hour on my Core 2 Duo laptop, while kdelibs > 3 takes more than 3 hours). Oh, oh, oh. 1 ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:29:59 +0100 (CET), Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > Make it 2 TB - 1 TB is not enough. But what a machine to compile > > OO.o with... not bad, ehh? *drooling* > > Forget compiling OOo, that machine would be fast enough to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup. > > > > > > Uwe > > Dial-up user reporting in here. What is this "feature" you speak > of here? How does this work? Ins

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with my graphics chipset. Now I'd like to re-compile KDE with composite enabled. Anybody in the know *what* parts of KDE I have to re-emerge? (Wouldn't li

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I > > have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D > > acceleration) with my graph

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:47:51PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > set xcomposi

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > I have 3.5 as monolithic and 4.0 meta. What concerns me is that > > adding "xcomposite" will not re-emerge anything from 4.0 - and > > there is where I need/want it. &

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Short version: > > > kdelibs > > > krunner > > > kwin > > > libtaskmanager > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:51:42 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > I guess my problem is this: My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome > > Pro IGP. I got an X driver for it from www.openchrome.org which > > doesn't seem to work prop

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome Pro IGP. > > Aaahh. Say no more. > > I can get you good deals on Dell kit. Interested? What do you mean by "Dell kit"?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:15:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Which version of the driver are you using? I have an IGP > > > chipset and use x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.901 from > > > the Sabayon overlay. >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:07:06 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > I tried 0.2.2 from portage and an svn checkout from > > > > openchrome.org. > > > > > > I can't see openchrome in > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 - KDialog - DBUS

2008-03-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 13 March 2008, cypherstrong wrote: > Hi, > > KDE change dcop for dbus > > The problem is that dcop it's really easy to use, but dbus ... Go to: http://techbase.kde.org/ and search for "DBUS". Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > It's certainly an aid, at least the bottom part (like i'd said, I;d > foound several different Gentoo docs giving me descriptions of what > slots are, so I knew that, just that there seem to be no docs > anywhere I can locate IN Gentoo that tell you

Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: > HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? First of all, don't shout at us! AFAIK, snns is a very good OSS implementation - and it's in portage. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: ht

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > hi > > can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Basic commands for what? If Linux in general, google for "bash". Read any of the introductions. If Gentoo-specific stuff, read the manual. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Nami

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 24 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Peter Humphrey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > On Monday 24 March 2008 10:19:25 Collin Starkweather wrote: > > > ... you left a '>' out of your rsync call. It's fixed below. > > > > His version is exactly the sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote: > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log > in there fine. Can I recover the root password? If you could passwords were useless. ;-) But you can boot from a LiveCD,

[gentoo-user] openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to keep the overlay. I deleted it and removed the "source" line in /etc/make.conf. I have the following line in make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS="openchrome via" Now I get this: uwix ~ # emerge --pretend --verbose xorg-server These a

Re: [gentoo-user] openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to > > keep the overlay. I deleted it and removed the "source" line > > in /

Re: [gentoo-user] openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > Why on earth is it excluding openchrome? > > > > > > Because the xorg-server ebuild does not support openchrome. > > > yet. Just add openchrome to world un

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Grant wrote: > > > > On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune > > > > to a LiveCD. > > > > > > Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the > > > disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only > > > destroy/overwrite it. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: > > Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that > > nobody has physical access to them. > > What if you sell them or give them back (leased mach

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Fei Liu wrote: > Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here > is my setup > > /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime > 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap > > grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no

Re: [gentoo-user] openchrome, xvmc and mplayer

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Marc Blumentritt wrote: > Hi, > > I just read on this list, that the x11 driver openchrome for via > chipsets hit the tree. Does anyone know, if mplayer in portage tree > is patched to work with openchrome and xvmc? It doesn't need to be patched. Just emerge it with "xv

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hello, > I have inst. gtoo on a workstation at work. But portage complains > '-14:24:52-- > ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfile >s/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2 => > `/usr/portage/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.b

Re: [gentoo-user] Static mod_perl with apache2

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Mario Ignacio Rodríguez Cortés wrote: > Hi list: > > The situation is the next, i'm trying to install mod_perl as a > static module with apache2, What is a "static module"?Something like a female stallion? Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:55 +0200, Elyahou ITTAH wrote: > > If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use > > > > torify > > Please try to avoid doing this with large packages. Tor is a > distributed net built by volunteers. Flooding it with large > downl

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