Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

2009-02-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:13:11AM -0330, Penguin Lover Roger Mason squawked: > Willie Wong writes: > > > Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of > > pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams > > simpler (compared to a touchpad or

Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

2009-02-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:16:34PM -0500, Penguin Lover Vizo Allman squawked: > I am running a lenovo x-61 table for my everyday machine and it works pretty > well for me. I use Xournal to draw pics and take quick handwritten notes. > Ooh, Xournal is wonderful. It it also useful for my current no

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv & create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:06:31AM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: >I've got a really big data file in essentially a *.csv format. > (comma delimited) I need to scan this file and create a new output > file. I'm wondering if there is a reasonably easy command line way of > doing this

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv & create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:15:09PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > 1) My actual input data starts with two fields which date & time. For > lines 2 & 3 I need exclude the 2nd & 3rd date & time from the output > corresponding to line 1, so these 3 lines: > > Date1,Time1,A,B,C,D,0 > Date

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge amazonmp3 fails

2009-03-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:30:03PM -0400, Penguin Lover Douglas J Hunley squawked: > When trying to emerge amazonmp3, I'm getting a failure on the 'boost' > dependency. Any ideas? I believe I've attached everything relevant to the > build, if not, pls let me know what else is needed. For future

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:15:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: > Hello, > > When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there > is no sound. > > Mps has been built with the following use flags: > Use flags: (aac) (alsa) (-ao) (-audiofile) (-avahi) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: > > Unless I'm mistaken, mpd uses gstreamer, right? So, have you checked that > > you have gst-plugins-ogg emerged? > So, this would imply a buggy ebuild? Yes, you are mistaken. mpd does not need to use gstreamer. To the OP

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:15:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: > Hello, > > When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there > is no sound. > > Mps has been built with the following use flags: > Use flags: (aac) (alsa) (-ao) (-audiofile) (-avahi) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:16:40PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked: > I uploaded this album to my mp4 player, and it hung when I tried to > play it. So there may be something wrong with the encoding. The > strange thing is that mplayer plays it just fine. > > I'll try to make some time to tra

[gentoo-user] kqemu build error

2009-03-17 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: I am running into a bit of problem trying to build the latest version of kqemu (1.4.0_pre1). The error I get: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Os -march=pentium-m -ftracer -pipe -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-stack

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: > svn: OPTIONS of 'http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk': could not > connect to server (http://overlays.gentoo.org) > But pointing firefox to http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk > lists

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:04:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: > thanks for your answer: > Here is what I did: > 1) emerge -1 neon - revdep-rebuild (everything was consistent): layman -f -a > sabayon failed, layman -s vmware failed too > 2) USE=expat emerge -1 neon; emerge -1

Re: [gentoo-user] svn broken ?

2009-03-27 Thread Willie Wong
Hi Helmut: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:41:59PM +0100, Penguin Lover Helmut Jarausch squawked: > I'm updating a Gentoo system and now 'svn' is broken > > For all sites I've tried I get > svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/py3k': could > not connect to server (http://s

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 07:13:14PM +0100, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: > emerge -pv subversion: > [ebuild R ] dev-util/subversion-1.6.0 USE="berkdb kde nls perl python > webdav-neon -apache2 -bash-completion -ctypes-python -debug -doc -dso -emacs - > extras -gnome-keyring -java -ruby -sasl -vim-s

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:53:00PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: > Polipo is running but there's nothing changing when it's stopped. > I'm on a NATted LAN behind a router without any firewall running on this host. > > regards > nico I'm really out of ideas then. Sorry I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server - partially SOLVED

2009-03-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 05:10:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: > > I've just discovered that reemerging dev-util/subversion (1.6.0) > > with different use flags gives a working svn > > > > USE='-webdav-neon webdav-serf' emerge -1 dev-util/subversion > > > > So, I suspect net-m

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird Message Filter Script

2009-03-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 06:40:05PM -0400, Penguin Lover dhk squawked: > What I want to do is automatically parse the emails/xml as they come in > after the message filer moves the email. > As far as I know, Thunderbird does not support such a thing. I don't know what you use this for, but you may

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

2009-03-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:31:27PM -0400, Penguin Lover Allan Gottlieb squawked: > I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny > chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge. > > My current list follows. Thanks in advance for any help. > allan >

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

2009-04-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:17:17PM -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Would anyone know which portage package would install the stmaryrd fonts? > > I have these installed: > > virtual/latex-base > dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended > dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra > dev-texlive/texlive-latex > d

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

2009-04-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Penguin Lover Marc Joliet squawked: > Alternatively, you could use texmfind: > > mar...@marcec ~ % texmfind stmaryrd > dev-texlive/texlive-mathextra [1 file] > stmaryrd > > Found 1 texmf file in 1 ebuild. > mar...@marcec ~ % eix texmfind > [I]

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

2009-04-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:32:26AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida squawked: > All previous replies very helpful. > > Thanks. > > However texlive-mathextra won't emerge. Any advice? Thanks, > Not sure if this will help, but try *not* emerging it directly. Add mathextra to the USE for app-t

Re: [gentoo-user] SanDisk MobileMate [solved in part]

2007-07-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:11:08PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > Sorry if this is a stupid question: I've never actually owned a > device using a MicroSD card--until now. I have for myself a Motorola > KRZR K1 phone, and I am thinking of buying a MicroSD

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and iso9660:1999

2007-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:59:21PM +0300, Penguin Lover Aleksey V. Kunitskiy squawked: > I have a problem with mounting DVD-R in iso9660:1999 format. Folders are all > in lowercase and folders with non-english character are displayed ugly. > I tried: iso9660:1999, afaik, has agnostic to filename

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and iso9660:1999

2007-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:44:14PM +0300, Penguin Lover Aleksey V. Kunitskiy squawked: > This DVD-R was created under windows with nero, not by me. > I tried to set iocharset=windows-1251 but it didn't help. I know on that > windows system is windows-1251 charset. I still see ugly names, and I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:38:38AM +0200, Penguin Lover Michal 'vorner' Vaner squawked: > Hello > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > > > :set encoding > > encoding=latin1 > > I would guess your UTF-8 f

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant+ndiswrapper, Dell E1505, Broadcom 4311 wireless problem

2007-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
The following lines worries me a bit. On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:16:23AM -0400, Penguin Lover Lingyun Yang squawked: > Starting AP scan (specific SSID) > Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=6): > 41 50 54 32 32 42 APT22B > Trying to get current scan results first wi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

2007-08-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:50:43AM -0700, Grant wrote: > I need to periodically upload a file to an ftp server, but the > password they've issued me has a '!' and a '&' character in it. I > tried escaping those characters like this: > > wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\&@ftp.example.com/f

Re: [gentoo-user] auto proxy config (Firefox, and more)

2007-09-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:26:43PM +0200, Penguin Lover Benjamin Graf squawked: > I tried this as a proxy automatic configuration file (*.pac), but it > doesn't work : > At school, it works correctly (it uses the proxy when it is > necessary), but not at home. I think the "myIpAddress" is maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xine-ui fails at ffmpeg

2007-09-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:38:31PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > eContext' is deprecated (declared at > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/libavcod > ec/avcodec.h:2447) > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/libavcodec/avcodec.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:00:49PM +, Penguin Lover Grant Edwards squawked: > You probably want to disable generic IDE support and enable the > combined SATA/PATA stuff in the new one. The ATA stuff has > been completely redone between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22. I just installed 2.6.23-rc[some numb

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel rollback

2007-10-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:24:11AM -0300, Penguin Lover Danilo Marcelo squawked: > yesterday i did a kernel update using emerge gentoo-sources, but i have > other drivers, like ieee80211 and ipw2200 which was installed using old > kernel. > How can i rollback the kernel update? Can i use emerge -C

Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound but headphones have

2007-10-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:00:17PM -0400, Penguin Lover Mark Shields squawked: > On 10/18/07, Chuanwen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A message body would help ;) Mark, I think this problem is on your end possibly. I got the following message just okay. On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:54:36PM +0

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible to compile PyQt

2007-10-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:24:19PM +0200, Penguin Lover econti squawked: > Hi all, > the upgrade of my system has had another stop. > > This time due to PyQt. I googled and found many problems regarding PyQt, > but, because of my english, I did not understand what exactly to do. > I'm not quite

Re: [gentoo-user] ssl timeout when downloading file(s)

2007-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:15:46AM -0600, Penguin Lover Eric Phillips squawked: > I have gnutls and openssl installed, and have run revdep-rebuild. I am > able to visit https sites, only downloads are affected. neither wget > nor ping will work. wget returns "unable to resolve name". however my

[gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-09 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, The situation: I have some bash scripts written. The scripts contains a lot of string comparisons. Perhaps my code was buggy before, perhaps it was not, but the change "Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces string matching, as with the oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:13:10AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: > > The question: > > > > Is there a switch that I can use to make bash run in some sort of > > compatibility mode for the string comparison? I.e, can I somehow > > force bash (in the script) to behave like before

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash 3.2/3.1 compatibility?

2007-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:46:33PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I have the same problem and I was trying to solve it few weeks ago, > > after almost two weeks of searching and compiling I substituted =~ with > > expr: > > > > - orig use with ~= : > >

Re: [gentoo-user] oggenc ogg flac files

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:25:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Florian Philipp squawked: > Can anyone confirm that it is not possible to transcode ogg-flac files > to ogg-vorbis although the necessary use flags are set (vorbis-tools > +flac; flac +ogg) and the man page says it's possible? Yes, I just tr

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:17:32PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify > claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to > go through all the RGB codes? The convert created BMP's won't open in > gimp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:09:44PM -0600, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: > Alpha: rgba(0,255,0,1)#00FF > Background color: black > Transparent color: rgba(0,255,0,1) > It claims that the background is black, but the gif doesn't show a > background at all, and the BMP sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up `du'

2008-05-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:49:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > Is there any way to speed up the du command? I mean short of having > cron run it on target directories and store results. (not really > speeding up but at least not having to wait for a result) > > I've seen

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --search can't find local ebuild?

2008-05-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:34:10PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > On Wed, 28 May 2008 15:21:53 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I can't figure out why "emerge --search" can't find a local > > ebuild, but "emerge -av" can: > > The man page states: > > --search (-s) > Sear

Re: [gentoo-user] codec read/write errors

2008-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:02:39PM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked: > Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure writing to cs5535 codec > Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure reading codec reg 0x7a,Last >value=0x7a80 > > I've got no idea why this started nor what software is responsible for > gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:32:39AM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: > "Jason Messerschmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've noticed an odd visual glitch with blogspot pages- it superimposes > > my desktop on some pages. It's a bit hard to explain so here's a > > pic. As far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 06:21:42PM +0200, Penguin Lover Joerg Schilling squawked: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The OP asked a question about why a virtual has a certain default. I > > answered with the obvious answer which has to do with the point of view > > of the maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:16:23PM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: > Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Where is this suggestion mentioned? Is there a bug number? > > The Gentoo bug is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221141 Ah! Thanks. I s

Re: [gentoo-user] OK

2008-07-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:11:05PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Sunday 13 July 2008, Mick wrote: > > Anyway, as others asked - how long is too long for this purpose? > > for obvious reasons, anything longer than 80 characters > Just to be pedantic: Remember that the mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail on multiple laptops

2008-07-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:43:35AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > Can I use procmail with IMAP or is that not possible? And how do I > configure Mutt to use download/sync IMAP? > procmail? Do you mean sorting to IMAP mailboxes? I imagine you just do the same as normally: set-up procmail to sort t

[gentoo-user] Moonlight on Gentoo

2008-08-08 Thread Willie Wong
Hi group: I was rather excited at first about NBC streaming olympic events on the internet then I discovered that their media player is based on Silverlight. Do you have any experience installing/running Moonlight on Gentoo? Is there a ebuild available? Does it work with Firefox 3?

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing dvdio.h cdio.h dvd.h

2008-08-12 Thread Willie Wong
slocate is almost exactly the same as yours (dvdio.h not found), and /usr/include/cdio/{dvd,cdio}.h belongs to dev-libs/libcdio-0.78.2-r4 W -- On Fri, Mar 15 Dan Peng wrote: >On Fri, Mar 15 Willie Wong wrote: >> I am not a physics major. I am not a physics major. I will never be a &g

[gentoo-user] missing (not really) jni.h

2008-08-20 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: python-updater wants to rebuild beecrypt. dev-libs/beecrypt-4.1.2-r1 fails to compile with a bunch of errors related to javaglue.h and javaglue.c, I think I traced the error back to where it appears in the log -snip log mkdir .libs i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] stretching AVI in time

2008-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:34:00PM +0400, Penguin Lover Andrew Gaydenko squawked: > I have a very short (probably one or few frames) avi file (display geometry > test image). How to stretch the avi in time to long period (say, minutes)? > Software? Steps? If you worry just about display, look

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lex&yacc or flex&bison programs

2008-09-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:01:13PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: > I was finally able to cobble together a working flex/bison parser from > the bison-bridge example in an appendix to the flex info page. I'd > like to share it, and perhaps other _working_ sample programs to the > we

Re: [gentoo-user] x264 flag on mplayer (amd64)

2008-09-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:15:44AM -0300, Penguin Lover luis jure squawked: > i can't activate the x264 use flag an amd64 when trying to re-emerge > mplayer (with mencoder). (no problem on x86) > > the funny thing is that i'm sure i had support for x264 until recently. > i still have some scripts

Re: [gentoo-user] landmark development !

2008-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:11:40PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Saturday 06 September 2008 17:51:14 Philip Webb wrote: > > ed-1.0 has become stable ! That will make everyone's weekend (grin) ! > > Ye Gods! I don't believe it! > > First wine, then Duke Nukem released someth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-updater always wants to re-emerge certain things.

2008-09-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:02:32PM +, Penguin Lover Grant Edwards squawked: > > No clue why but it worked for me. I agree that after being > > recompiled it shouldn't need to do it again but it seems to do > > the same on my rig. > > That's interesting. Seems like a bug in python-updater. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-updater always wants to re-emerge certain things.

2008-09-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:05:19PM +, Penguin Lover Grant Edwards squawked: > > Can you show the contents of python-updater -vp? > > # python-updater -vp > [...] > unrecognised option: -vp Oops, my bad. > > Running python-updater -v -p says this (all packages except > openoffice have

Re: [gentoo-user] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update

2008-09-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:14:48AM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Device or resource busy > DVB card number must be between 1 and 4 > AO: [null] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per

Re: [gentoo-user] [Resolved] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update

2008-09-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:35:04AM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: > Namely, restart alsasound (as root). > > /etc/init.d/alsasound restart > > I've put this in my /etc/conf.d/local.start Why is it necessary to put that in /etc/conf.d/local.start? Shouldn't the reboot make alsasou

Re: [gentoo-user] Mediatomb media server - users & permissions for /media/videoX

2008-09-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:05:58AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > I'm a little unclear as to how these permissions have been applied - > shouldn't it be based either on the permissions of the mount-point > directory, or added as an "-o users,umask=000" in /etc/fstab ? umask only appli

[gentoo-user] GCC compilation disk space

2008-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: Is it me or does gcc take more disk space to compile now? I am trying to upgrade to gcc-4.3.2, and the compile stopped become it ran out of disk space--after eating up ~700 MB in /var/tmp. I seem to recall running into the same problem with the 4.3.1-r1 that I have installed a

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC compilation disk space

2008-10-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:34:52AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > > Expected behaviour. >=gcc-4.2 compiles about three times longer than > > > minutes; the current one takes about 1.5 hours), and requires loads of > > disk. > > gcc is getting like ooO :-) > Any idea why? Turns

Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers

2008-10-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:43:42AM -0400, Penguin Lover Mike squawked: > Erik Hahn wrote: > Please, disable HTML in your client or at least tell it to send a plain text version as well. I see hardly readable raw HTML code in mutt. > > You may want to add this line to muttrc: > > auto_view

Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers

2008-10-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:52:17AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > I'm still looking for a solution to the idiots in the HR department that > insist on sending all their touchy-feely-it's-a-wonderful-world motivational > mails as a single giant jpeg... > Actually, I prefer it that

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail+spamassassin user filters

2008-10-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Rioja squawked: > 2.- I created ~/.procmail with the following contents: > > SHELL=/bin/sh > MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR > LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log > > | spamassassin --prefs-file=$HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs > Is t

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail+spamassassin user filters

2008-10-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:08:49AM +0200, Penguin Lover David Rioja squawked: > Willie Wong escribi?: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Rioja >> squawked: >> >>> 2.- I created ~/.procmail with the following contents: >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Continue ftp upload without clobbering

2008-10-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:25:08PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to continue uploading a large file after the ftp link fails, > only from the point where it failed onwards? I noticed tnftp (which I use) > has the append command, but this appends the complete f

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The > email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird > spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just > slow. Would some

Re: [gentoo-user] broken ALSA

2008-10-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:51:17PM -0400, Penguin Lover Andrey Vul squawked: > Here's the error from using mplayer on an mp3 file: > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify > version for symbol _snd_pcm_asym_open > [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2148:(snd_pcm_open_conf) symb

Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:10:56PM +0800, Penguin Lover Zhang Weiwu squawked: > Hi it seems the layman package does not have 'subversion' use flag: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo emerge -pv layman > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > [nomerge ] app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r1 USE="doc ipv6 -krb4 -tcl" Use the ~ version of mit-krb5, any version above 1.6.3-r2 should be okay. Also, please file a bug/stablization request about this against mit-krb5. W -

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-11-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if > > any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good

Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary

2007-01-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:04:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jakob Buchgraber squawked: > Is there any excellent monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? What do you mean by monoligual? (English to English? or other languages?) Anycase, I have on my desktop 'sdcv' installed. The last time

[gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox

2007-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
Short time line of what happened: On January 28, I was doing some playing around with eye-candy on my X desktop, and started running animations (from Xscreensaver) as by desktop background. At the same time I was browsing the internet using firefox-2.0.0.1. The operation of the desktop was smooth

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox

2007-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:22:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Rudmer van Dijk squawked: > are you sure this is only with firefox? so far this is the only app that I observed it with. xterm/aterm were left open for hours, a few large image editing jobs were done with gimp. Abiword and acroread I only ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox

2007-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:22:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Rudmer van Dijk squawked: > are you sure this is only with firefox? > I have noticed this behavior too but due to lack of time I have reverted to > use xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 for me it looked like every application triggered a > cpu load of >

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox

2007-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:05:35PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > another try at searching b.g.o (this time without the firefox keyword) > turns up http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163827 > > I'll try disabling EXA and report back. Well... this seems to be t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:32:47AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dan Farrell squawked: > > I can see in an xfce4 panel plugin that there is constantly a small > > amount of incoming/outgoing traffic to/from the affected system when > > there is no reason I know of for it. netstat doesn't show anything > >

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

2007-02-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:13:44PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I believe there's still at least one package that doesn't build with gcc > 4.x (kqemu), so there's some reason to still stay on 3.4 if you are > cautious. > You mean qemu-softmmu. kqemu has almost always been compilable by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

2007-02-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:58:58PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > I do use Qemu, which was one reason I didn't switch earlier. Might as well wait. Rumour has that the replacement for dyngen in qemu is almost ready (the earlier forecast was before end of this month), and you've already waited this

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 07:11:46AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Open a copy of your emerge.log in vim and do: > > > > :%s/\*\*\*// > > > H, I don't have vim installed. use sed, the syntax is practically the same. sed -e "s/\*\*\*//" /var/log/emerge.l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:35:33PM -0700, Penguin Lover Korthrun squawked: > Iceweasel for life. Getting a bit off topic here... But IceWeasel to me means something like "Distant third cousin with some contradictory philosophy" to FireFox, like, say, Galeon or Kazehakase. I prefer something lik

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:38:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Agg squawked: > You mean an *off-topic* with a valid reply-to address is still *off-topic*. Oh, come on, why can't you have the decency to spam^H post off-topic from just one e-mail account? It is annoying to have to kill-file multiple ones.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage date

2007-03-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:24:04PM +0100, Penguin Lover Arnau Bria squawked: > But sometimes I look for the date when I did my last sync, cause > maybe it's enough for what I want, but I don't know how to find it... If you have it installed: qlop -s lists the times of all the syncs you've ever

Re: [gentoo-user] FN+keys on my dell inspiron 2200 keyboard

2007-03-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:19:07PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao squawked: > firstly, I turn on my xev and press them. I get no response. watching my > kernel messages, I get to see their keycodes in a message like this: > > Mar 7 04:00:31 titusx [11428.51] atkbd.c: Unknown key pr

[gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-21 Thread Willie Wong
The root partition on my laptop just crapped out today. The kernel logs report a problem with reiserfs. Reiserfsck suggests --rebuild-tree, which AFAICT has a rather non-zero failure rate. So I am getting myself mentally prepped for the perhaps necessary re-install. I would appreciate greatly if

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:08:24AM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > The root partition on my laptop just crapped out today. The kernel > logs report a problem with reiserfs. Reiserfsck suggests > --rebuild-tree, which AFAICT has a rather non-zero failure rate. So I > am ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:42:35AM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > You may find that a --fix-fixable does the trick and you don't have to > re-install - this usually only works if you keep your fingers crossed at the > same time. ;-) I wasn't so lucky. :( So now I am re-installing system

Re: [gentoo-user] Diary tool?

2007-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:32:40PM +0800, Penguin Lover buffalo squawked: > Hi all! Does anybody know whether there exist some good diary tools under > gentoo linux? I appreciate your help very much! What do you mean diary tools? If you just mean a way of keeping a diary on a computer, I would s

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh escape command

2007-03-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:49:35AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do you explain this: > > > > I am in a ssh session. I type "~." to end the session. The first time it > > says command not found, the second time the escape character is recognised > > and executed, I am logged out. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:49:06AM -0600, darren kirby wrote: > I realize there is a sense of satisfaction from using the TARPIT target that > is appealing, however you must consider: > > 1. These ssh bruteforce attacks are almost certainly coming from a zombie > botnet, and thus there is no hum

Re: [gentoo-user] is it ok to set local flags using ufed?

2007-05-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:45:21AM -0400, Penguin Lover Denis squawked: > Is it safe setting local flags using ufed (i.e., in /etc/make.conf) if > you know you dont need them disabled for any packages? Short answer: yes. It is safe. You won't break your system. (At least I haven't.) I only put st

[gentoo-user] Epson Perfection and Gentoo

2007-06-01 Thread Willie Wong
Hi all, My family is looking to purchase a scanner. It will mostly be connected to my mother's computer running Windows, so linux compatibility isn't the most important criterion. However, it would be nice to have the scanner working with my laptop when I go visit. Currently we are pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Plextor SATA DVD RW not working

2007-06-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:06:34AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > Kaffeine gives this error message > > > The source can't be read. > Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data > (e.g: no disc in drive). (/dev/dvd) Some simple questions: what does 'ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plextor SATA DVD RW not working

2007-06-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:39:05PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > > > The source can't be read. > > > Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain > > > data > > > (e.g: no disc in drive). (/dev/dvd) > > > what does 'ls -l /dev/dvd' show? > > ls: cannot access /

[gentoo-user] Importing Certificate Authority

2007-06-15 Thread Willie Wong
Hi group, Is there anyway of importing a certificate authority for just one user? My university/department uses a self-signed SSL certificate for IMAPS, and since it was implemented, 'fetchmail' from my machine always generates an error message fetchmail: Server certificate verifi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Importing Certificate Authority

2007-06-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:45:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover Xavier Parizet squawked: > >> So the certificate (I think) is here: > >> http://www.math.princeton.edu/math.crt > >> > >> How do I tell my computer to trust the certificate? (In particular, > >> with fetchmail?) > > Retrieve the cert

[gentoo-user] Default CApath for openssl [was: Importing Certificate Authority]

2007-06-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:54:11PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > But thanks to that, I got on the right direction: turns out that my > department switched from using a self-signed certificate to using one > from IPSCA, so I've been barking up the wrong tree when try

[gentoo-user] SanDisk MobileMate?

2007-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
Hi List, Sorry if this is a stupid question: I've never actually owned a device using a MicroSD card--until now. I have for myself a Motorola KRZR K1 phone, and I am thinking of buying a MicroSD card so I can transfer music/pictures between the phone and my laptop. To do that, I'll also

Re: [gentoo-user] SanDisk MobileMate?

2007-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 05:31:29AM +0200, Penguin Lover Hemmann, Volker Armin squawked: > On Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007, Willie Wong wrote: > why? Is the KRZR so much worse than a RAZR? > > With a RAZR you just connect the phone to the computer with the usb cable, > and > you can

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