Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound

2005-07-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:05:48PM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote: > On 7/27/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > try revdep-rebuild. > > Thanks, that gives: > Warning: Failed to resolve package order. > Will merge in "random" order! > > All prepared. Starting rebuild... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Missing IPtables

2005-07-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:43:32PM +0100, Tim Igoe wrote: > cd /usr/src/linux > > make menuconfig > > edit the kernel options to set up the iptables parts needed in the > kernel (can't rememebr where they are - not just at my normal box atm) In 2.6.11, it is under Device Drivers -> Networking

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound

2005-07-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:56:33AM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote: > On 7/27/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First emerge the new version of sdl-perl > > emerge --oneshot sdl-perl > > then remove the tempfiles created by revdep-rebuild > > and run

Re: [gentoo-user] Cowon iAudio u5

2008-01-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 01:10:22AM +0100, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: > Hi, > I'm considering buying this mp3 player: > http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/u5/#specs The best chance you'll get an answer is probably from the Cowon forums. I own a JetAudio M3, and it is extremely linux frie

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:41:04AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that > will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and > the like. > > Prefer command line/ncurses. > One of my friends coded something like this once as a plug-in for XMMS. Can't

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:27:24PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > > > ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - > > > > And you should get A-440 out of your speakers. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out |play -t raw > -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3000 - > play soxio: Failed reading `

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:06:38PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > > > > compile it, run it like > > > > ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - > > > > > This works, sort of. Sounds like a dentist drill going > in an out. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:22:00PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked > OK, got it: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ sox -t nul /dev/null > sine.wav synth 10.0 sine 440.0 | aplay sine.wav > Playing WAVE 'sine.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, > Rate 44100 Hz, Mono Better yet (I di

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils speaker-test question

2008-01-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:20:48PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > speaker-test 0.0.8 Hum, that is rather old. Try upgrading alsa? The stable, unless you are on mips, is at least 1.0.14 W -- Four can study together, if three of them are dea... ~Daniel Jonathan Peng Sortir en Pa

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils speaker-test question

2008-01-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:55:28PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > Do you mean alsa-utils. Here's alsa: yes. Sorry for the confusion. > localhost heathen # emerge -avuD alsa > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > I note two curious things(at least): als

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:32:02AM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > After running emerge -uD alsa-utils I ran > revdep-rebuild and was greeted by page after page of > this > > <...> > broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkabc_newexchange.so.1.0.0 > (requires libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0 libexp

[gentoo-user] Qt3 and Qt3support

2008-01-26 Thread Willie Wong
What actually does the qt3support USE flag do on the qt4 ebuild? Does it enable some sort of compatibility library for qt3? For example, I want djvu with the djview viewer built, which requires the qt3 flag set for the djvu ebuild. Currently I have both qt3 and qt4 installed on my system. Does the

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:06:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > <...> > [blocks B ] >=app-admin/eselect-1.0.3 (is blocking > app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3) emerge --unmerge eselect-opengl eselect && emerge --oneshot eselect eselect-opengl -- "Yan Can Cook" and George Lucas

Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images

2008-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:54:15PM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked: > I need to find the difference between images (like the text-file diff > command, but for RGBA images). I tried "compare A.png A.png > difference.png". This should obviously produce some kind of blank image > because A.png and

Re: [gentoo-user] Depgraph failure WAS audio gone!

2008-01-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:59:29PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > Uh-oh, > > localhost heathen # emerge -auvD world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies \ > !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot > have been > !!

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up after overdue -uD world

2008-01-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:01:26PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > > Just wondering, if this all goes as planned, and I > > don't have to start answering my own e-mails again, I > > would like to clean up and dispose of about 2yrs of > > garbage on my HD.(The original install was via the > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Chinese reader needed WAS emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build"

2008-01-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:13:15AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > This gentoo user had a problem very similar to mine > but since the conversation is in Chinese I was unable > to determine the outcome. Maybe there's a clue in > there that will help me resolve my issue. > > http://forums.gentoo.tw/vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:11:55PM +, Mick wrote: > From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see the > portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had Gaim > installed? > > Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not s

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:21:49PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I routinely read $PORT_DIR/profiles/packages.mask after a sync to check > what has changed recently and do something about it before it bites me > in the ass Last rites and removals are also announced in GWN/GMN. W -- Willie W.

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based email clients

2008-02-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:05:58PM +0100, Penguin Lover Udo Kempen squawked: > Jason Carson wrote: > > I am currently using squirrelmail. What are some other web based email > > clients I can try out? > > http://roundcube.net/ Be a man, and use a Java-applet-ssh-client with a cli mail client. Lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP -> Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:54:06AM -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > Either is good; however you are going to need a different MX host for > your mail I'm afraid. Since hosts can't connect to 25 they can't send > mail directly to you. COX probably has provided an outgoing relay > host, but didn't expec

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked: > TOTALLY WEIRD. I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough, ecatmur > isn't listed. I think I've used it beore on layman though, so I look up the > overlays listing on the gentoo overlays list, here: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP -> Real IMAP

2008-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:18:50PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dan Farrell squawked: > > I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to come to > > my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent provider and rid > > myself of this nonsense. > > Don't assume DSL will be better. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:24:49PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: > I emerged -e again, this time without distcc and ccache. All compiled fine, > except for media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r1 (vf_decimate.c:26: error: > can't find a register in class `BREG' while reloading `asm')

Re: [gentoo-user] No ping man page

2008-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:12:47AM -0500, Andrey Falko wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 11:06 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else noticed there is no man page for ping? I know I've looked I have a ping manpage. > There is a -doc use flag, which if problably disabled by default. > USE="do

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:25:23PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE > USE="-X -acl -gpm -ipv6 -tcpd" > > # equery depends attr > [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] > sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (xattr? sys-apps/attr) > > # equery depends pwdb > [ Searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote: > Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a > dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the pam_pwdb > module, and if you do, warns you about it. I for my part just removed pwdb, > and I c

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:53:29PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > Not so fast. Check to see if you do have the xattr flag enabled. > > In the kernel config probably? No, I mean the USE variable. > > The entry for attr is a conditional dependency: you don't need it if > > you don't have the xa

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:58:03AM +0100, Penguin Lover Henry Gebhardt squawked: > > So, yes, pwdb is a runtime dependency. I don't actually run pam, so can't > > confirm what would happen if I remove pwdb. > > > > Holy shit, what's going on? The ebuild in the portage tree is different than > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:17:35AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > emerge -n pwdb Actually, don't do that. Alan gave the right answer, but it seems that my portage tree was just a few days out of date. flameeyes just removed the dependency for pwdb from pam. (See my other reply for

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

2008-02-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:53:57AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > 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 > s

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

2008-02-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:28PM +0100, Penguin Lover Amar Cosic squawked: > 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 sudo chown -R the -R option makes it recursive. no need to sudo if you are root alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

2008-02-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:02:28AM -0500, Penguin Lover sean squawked: > I was updating my system and the nvidia drivers complained that there > was no .config in /usr/src/linux. > > I looked at it was gone. > This has happened before. > Is this some bug? > I am running on amd64. > > Unfortunatel

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL CUPS and SMTP on port 587

2008-02-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:18:00AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > My ISP (Cox) blocks outgoing port 25 so I can't submit mail to my > remote mail server. From what I understand, port 587 is commonly used > to get around this. Can I have postfix listen on port 25 and port > 587? Has anyon

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SSH port forwards behind restrictive firewall

2008-02-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:26:28PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > > ssh -p 443 -L :smtpserver:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > and configure your mail client to send to localhost, port . > > Another alternative (depending upon how many ports you need to forward) > > could be to use SOCKS

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:28:57AM +0200, Penguin Lover Rumen Yotov squawked: > >You're welcome. What I'd like to know is in which universe portage could > >block bash > > > >It just sounds a bit daft, sort of like OpenOffice blocking mutt... > > > Thinking about it, much of portage is bash-scrip

Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)

2008-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: > There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash > graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X > and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and

Re: ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

2008-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:34:54PM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: > >>LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg > >> > >>If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts. > >>So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior? > >> > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:13:10AM +, Penguin Lover Steve squawked: > Thanks for all your suggestions... > > I will look into fail2ban... that might be what I need... While I could > crank BLOCKING_PERIOD for blacklist.py to an absurdly high value, this > (AFAIK) will not persist blocks whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:39:15PM +0100, Penguin Lover Anno v. Heimburg squawked: > It limits the number of new connections on each port in > INPUT_LIMITER_TCPPORTS from any individual host to INPUT_LIMITER_COUNT > within INPUT_LIMITER_TIME. My experience suggests that finding the right INPUT_LI

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:20:27PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can be > made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the > original. > > I found this command online: > > gs -dBATCH -sOutputFile=4804SR-output.jpg > -sDEVICE=jpeg 48

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:34:30PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > Re-emerged gentoolkit. > > Now I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends > =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 > [ Searching for packages depending on > =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3... ] > app-office/dia-0.95.1 (python? >

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:57:56PM -0800, Penguin Lover Daevid Vincent squawked: > So this page finally loaded today: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL#nVidia > > And it says: Please do as you are told and read the OFFICIAL gentoo website? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/e

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 06:14:02PM -0800, Penguin Lover Daevid Vincent squawked: > And, as I already posted twice now... > > > I emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05. > > Now when I start X, I have a blank/black screen. Oops, sorry about that, short memory. > > This driver is NOT working wit

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:05:37PM -0800, Penguin Lover Daevid Vincent squawked: > locutus ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE > Current Operating System: Linux locutus.daevid.com 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 #3 > PREEMPT Tue Mar 4 18:28:41 PST 2008 i686 > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implement

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:17:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Henry Gebhardt squawked: > I also have a nVidia 440 Go with the same problem. I fixed by > including the line > > Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" > > in the "Screen" section of /etc/X11/xorg.xonf. However, now I can't > use an e

Re: [gentoo-user] midi problem - not working

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:25:05AM +0200, Penguin Lover Dimitrios Ropokis squawked: > I emerge -ev kguitar with flag +midi +arts +oss etc, > but it's not working, alsa and other players dvd-cd-mp3 etc ok, > a litle help pls would be welcome, > my laptop is a toshiba satellite a30, > gentoo works p

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for utility to send X low level events

2008-03-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:40:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of any programs that manipulate X events on a low > level? I figure it will need to either record and play back events, > or let me describe them in an editable file. I don't know much about > the low level X st

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: > > I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the > > sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so > > that I don't get the german man pages installed. > > > > How would I do that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:32:05PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > on second thoughts, /me wonders if I might not be in Michael's killfile > by now... > That schmuck is already in my kill-file. But please, can we let this thread die? Must we all lower ourselves to the level of s

Re: [gentoo-user] Attempting to compile (patched) Qemu

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:15:56PM -0400, Penguin Lover James squawked: > A Google search pointed me to this Gentoo bug: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207833 > > Any ideas on why this may be happening? The only thing I can think may > be causing this is that I'm compiling Qemu with gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes > and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there > is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How > do you troubleshoot somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the > user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile > the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it > is panicki

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows terminal to allow ssh into my Gentoo machine?

2008-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:31:56AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm forced to work on some windows machines for the next couple of > days and want to find a simple app that would allow me command line > access to my Gentoo server. Does anyone here know of one? I don't need > anything more than a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:10:48PM +, James wrote: > These cards were supported by the Nvidia legacy driver > but now that's gone there is no support for these cards. > So I guess I'd like to replace them with something that > is open source on the driver, so as to keep support a long time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups not seeing a wireless host

2008-04-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:39:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: > What I want now is to let my wife's Windows Vista laptop use the printer. > I've seen how to set up an LPD printer in Vista, and it's a bit easier than > it was in XP. However, it does not work at all -- I cannot p

Re: [gentoo-user] different strange kernel name - 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-g506ab20b-dirty

2008-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:05:07AM +0800, Penguin Lover Chuanwen Wu squawked: > 1, Why I got a new kernel image(2.6.24-gentoo-r4-gb921d0de-dirty) > instead of using the old one (2.6.24-gentoo-r4-g506ab20b-dirty) ? As I > know if I add/change something as modules, all I need to do is "make > && ma

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx & texlive

2008-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:43:09AM +0200, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > > I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; > I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has > anyone > done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx & texlive

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:16:46AM +0200, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: > Whoa. I didn't know anything about that. Thanks for you linking that. > BTW, where should I have read the announcement of that stuff? Behold! The Power of Google! I wanted to test out the TeX Live ebuild (partly because it i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:52:10AM -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in > each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this > using the following from the command line: > sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' f

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:02:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and > > replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I > > know I can do this using

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx & texlive

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:33:04PM +0200, b.n. wrote: > ehm, I guess I wasn't clear. > You *already* knew: > - That there are texlive and tetex > - That tetex was EOLed and texlive was the next choice > - That tetex and texlive are mutually exclusive > - That the ebuild was in the tree Oh.. that..

Re: [gentoo-user] Announcement of tricky upgrades & stuff [was: lyx & texlive]

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:53:21PM +0200, Penguin Lover b.n. squawked: > It basically doesn't say "you better upgrade to texlive before tetex > goes in the /dev/null department". It says "well, tetex maintainer steps > down." That's very much different -someone could have stepped in and > replac

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Justin wrote: > * app-office/openoffice > > Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 > merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. > > Mon Apr 21 11:18:22 2008 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.4.0 > merge time: 1 hour,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: > On Tuesday 6 May 2008, 10:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:11:07 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}' > > > > This uses three commands when one

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:11:41PM +0200, Penguin Lover Justin squawked: > >your virtual p*n*s length: This should answer your question below. But just in case you are one of those male geeks who never get to experience the joy that is the American high school locker room: yes, the jocks do go ar

[gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I run df, I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 8008068 6827336 1180732 86% / /dev/root 8008068 6827336 1180732 86% / udev 10240

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:18:47PM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: > For me it started after the upgrade from baselayout-1 to baselayout-2. Same here. W -- omega says hi i think he might be sulking because he has fur ~S Sortir en Pantoufles: up 520 days, 13:42 -- gentoo-user@li

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:44:39PM +0300, Penguin Lover Daniel Iliev squawked: > On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:43:35 -0400 > Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Having just upgraded to baselayout2 and openrc, I found that when I > > run df, I get > > > > F

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:15:49AM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > Hi group, > > This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping > dead several times over the season. > > I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:06:28AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida squawked: > These are the packages that I actually emerged to keep the system lean > (from world file): > > dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra > dev-texlive/texlive-latex > dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra > You are free to brea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:24:39PM +0200, Penguin Lover Hartmut Figge squawked: > Hartmut Figge: > > > * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2008 failed. > > The today 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -pv -uDN world' showed > that this package would be emerged. I was curious what would happen. >

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:50:31AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida squawked: > I wonder why this is a required package > > * dev-tex/feynmf > > * dev-tex/latex-beamer > a well designed modular approach should not require these for basic > functionality. > Well, I agree with you there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:49:27PM +0200, Penguin Lover Hartmut Figge squawked: > Why should i have searched for this migration guide, when texlive was > pulled in automatically yesterday and i had never noticed something of > tetex in my system? No, you shouldn't have. But I am confused about the

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:30:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > >> * dev-tex/feynmf >> Latest version available: 1.08-r3 >> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] >> Size of files: 328 kB >> Homepage: >> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:24:00AM +0200, Penguin Lover Thomas Chef squawked: > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to > use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > Personally I use app-backup/rdiff-backup and dump not to DVD, but to an external harddrive stored

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:08:39PM -0400, Penguin Lover Moshe Kamensky squawked: > * William Hubbs [28/04/09 17:06]: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for > > > top-posting I've seen. Although I wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:05:22AM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > To be pedantic, the command that better matches Neil's description is > skip-quote, which is mapped to S by default. Thought I agree that > toggle-quote may be (really depends on the OP) suited fo

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

2009-05-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:24:00PM -0400, Penguin Lover James squawked: > I've recently discovered the awesomeness of mutt. (I may be a little > late, but better late than never!) 7 year user of Mutt, and I cannot agree more. > I'm use it for my work email. I have a rather complex and lengthy se

Re: [gentoo-user] eina from e17 overlay

2009-05-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:09:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > test -z "/usr/lib64/eina/mp/" || /bin/mkdir -p "/var/tmp/portage/dev- > libs/eina-/image//usr/lib64/eina/mp/" ^^^ > /bin/sh ../../../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c > eina_chained_mempool.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:02:21AM -0700, Penguin Lover fe...@crowfix.com squawked: > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. May I suggest using the --keep-going option for emerge to do what you want to do instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:54:08PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine > > who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is > > > > fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:52:23PM -0500, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > Questions: You knew I subscribed to this list. lol I ran the command: > > find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs qfile -o > > and I got a lot of hits. I'm just going to post snippets of the > directories here. It is a LO

Re: [gentoo-user] app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta build fails

2009-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:45:54PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:54:10 Michael Higgins wrote: > > Detected file collision(s): > > > > /usr/bin/dp > > > > Searching all installed packages for file collisions... > > > > Press Ctrl-C to Stop > > > > mail-client/nmh-1.1-r

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:22:59AM +0200, Penguin Lover Jes?s Guerrero squawked: > > On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: > > > > > > I don't filter anything. Just default metalog with default settings. > > I use sysklogd, that

Re: [gentoo-user] DOSEMU

2009-07-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:38:16PM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked: > Since the target machine is an embedded 486SX with limited mass > storage, operation without X is a must. > > I've got dosemu version 1.4.0.1 built with flags "X gpm -debug -svga". > [06:33 PM]wwong ~ $ euse -i svg

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:07:23PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > > from Cacti forums): > > | grep -v NaN | grep '' | tr e ' ' \ > > | awk {'print "Q"$2"qcq"$3"qcq"$9"Q"'} \ > > | tr Q '"' | tr c ',' | tr q '"'" > > > > Haven't tested it, but looks like it should work. > > Hmm, I don't thin

Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:23:55AM -0500, Penguin Lover William Hubbs squawked: > In accessibility, as far as I am aware, espeak has become the most used > software speech synthesizer. So, if there are not any objections, I am > considering removing festival from the main gentoo portage tree. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:57:26PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > > > Hmm, I don't think it gets anywhere: > > > === > > > cat test.xml | grep -v NaN | grep '' | tr e ' ' | awk > > > {'print "Q"$2"qcq"$3"qcq"$9"Q"'} | tr Q '"' | tr c ',' | tr q '"'" > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] package for the scheme programming language

2009-07-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:25:41PM -0700, Penguin Lover sunmoon1...@gmail.com squawked: > -- Sent from my Palm Unknown > Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > What (preferably gentoo stable on amd64) package do you recommend for > > the scheme programming language? > > > > I would prefer one that plays n

Re: [gentoo-user] PPP and reseting the DNS servers.

2009-07-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:01:37PM -0500, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I use dial-up and sometimes my ISP "looses" its DNS server for some > reason. If I try to go to a site, it just says looking up and sits > there until it times out. Going to the IP directly still works. My > question is thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:03:39PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > dragonfly ~ # emerge -Cp =cat/pack-ver > !!! '=cat/pack-ver' is not a valid package atom. > !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. > dragonfly ~ # > > dragonfly ~ # eix pack-ver > No matches found. > dragonfly ~

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked: > Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM > loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank, > and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnect

Re: [gentoo-user] I am not getting any emails...

2009-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:03:45AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > > On 25 Aug 2009, at 05:41, David Juhl wrote: > >> I am not getting any emails I thought this one might make it this >> time. > > You should not post messages to the list simply to see if it is working. > The irony,

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1?

2009-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
Huh? I don't quite understand your subject. Googling leads me to believe you are talking about the gcc version? The version you referred to is 4 years old and not in the tree anymore. If you really want it, however, you can get the ebuild from the CVS and throw it in your own overlay. http://an

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:51:14AM +0200, Penguin Lover J. Roeleveld squawked: > Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait > for a service on server B to be started? I have no idea if this would work or not. But have you tried writing a init script that does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta

2009-09-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:40:48PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > Copy paste from the screen into a mail > > or try with -pv instead of -av. > -a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT Also, try adding 2>&1 to your redirect to send STDERR to the file too. I'm not su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta

2009-09-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:53:00PM -0700, Penguin Lover Cinder Cinder squawked: > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-1.6f-r3 [1.6e-r3] USE="nls -lzma%" 249 kB > [ebuild N] sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a 949 kB > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-3.21 [2.76] USE="nls" LINGUAS="-cs% -da% > -de% -es

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta

2009-09-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 01:31:21AM -0700, Penguin Lover Cinder squawked: > I'm sorry! Please forgive me. I don't why these messages are comming up > blank. I've been getting your messages just fine. Are you sure the problem isn't on the receiving end over there? Best, W -- "He expanded his c

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/USB problem : not both disks recognized on same IDE channel

2009-09-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:46:00AM +0100, Penguin Lover Rohit squawked: > I have an IDE disk enclosure (can house 2 disks per IDE channel, a total of > 4 currently plugged in) which makes IDE disks available to the main computer > via 2x USB 2.0 connection (One USB 2.0 port connected to IDE adapter

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