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: > 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 transfer the data. No need for a card reader. > Perhaps, but I a

Re: [gentoo-user] SanDisk MobileMate?

2007-07-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 05:58:35AM +0200, Penguin Lover Hemmann, Volker Armin squawked: > with the RAZR (hopefully the KRZR is similar) you have to go into Preferences > (or setup or however it is called in english), connection, usb-setup and > set 'standard connection' to 'memory card' - with '

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:59:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > Hi All, > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which > unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 > characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:28:30AM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked: > After saving your script to /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl > and running "chmod +x ...", I pointed firefox at > http://localhost/cgi-bin/makeindex.perl and got the following: > > Internal Server Error >

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted

2007-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > > concerning USB settings, the same. But how about > > SCSI disk support? It > > It's there. > > > CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y > > > > No help. > > OS finds the device and scans it but refuses to assign > a drive l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

2007-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:37:54PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > Late last I night I got this response to a manual attempt to > mount the drive: > > mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/usbdrive > > # dmesg | tail > sdb: Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00 > sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > sdb:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

2007-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:22:16PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g > > "It provides full read-write access to NTFS, but currently lacks support for > encrypted and compressed files and POSIX attributes. " > > so does it work with zip, ta

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-terms/terminator and hide_window shortcut key

2011-02-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:12:57PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > Terminator claims it depends on python-keybinder for the show/hide function > to work, but even after installing dev-libs/keybinder +python, pressing the > show/hide window shortcut doesnt seem to do anything. Well, today's not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:52:36AM +, Stroller wrote: > AIUI using `find /my/folder -name foo*.txt` (i.e. unquoted) the shell will > pass the * to find if it can't expand it itself. Not necessarily true. On bash if you set the 'nullglob' option, if the shell can't find the file the word wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:08:23PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any > > color when it has no color ink, but do grayscale printers apply some > > conversion internally, to make sure that e.g. plain cyan is still > > visible (ins

[gentoo-user] Simplify finding the package?

2011-03-14 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, sorry for the nondescript title. Let me described what happened. I ran `emerge --update --deep world' over the weekend which updated app-text/poppler: Sat Mar 12 22:00:46 2011 >>> app-text/poppler-0.16.3 Today I found out that a whole bunch of packages got broken, and so I ran `revdep-

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:51:54AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with > tab completion without problems. > > cd $WWW/htph20110318 > > would expand in steps > > cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/ > cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-04-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:44:14PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Thanks, I'll try that - though I have not much time to do so, since the > machine starts swapping (though it has 8Gb memory). > > Furtheron I've found out, that sci-mathematics/dataplot > had BROWSER=xdg-open in it's /etc/env.d/9

Re: [gentoo-user] renumber pages in pdf files

2011-04-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:04:45PM -0300, luis jure wrote: > i' currently using an application called jpdftweak to edit metadata in pdf > files, like page numbers. jpdftweak is very useful, but being a gui app > it's slow for repeatedly editing many files. > look at app-text/pdfjam The first few

[gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze

2011-04-14 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I'm running into some weird problem. Firefox was upgraded to version 4 a few days ago. And up until last night I have had no problems with it. Starting this morning, however, it seems that Firefox would freeze up whenever I touch the keyboard with the window in focus! I can open new tab

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze

2011-04-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:53:39PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm running into some weird problem. Firefox was upgraded to version 4 > a few days ago. And up until last night I have had no problems with > it. Starting this morning, however, it seems that Firef

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze

2011-04-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:47:22PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > Update: seems that only some keyboard input is affected. For example, > > arrow keys for scrolling, and typing things in text/input boxes on > > webpages are fine. But "hotkeys" interacting with Firefox, or typing > > in the Address

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:38:04AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > >Felix Miata composed: > > >> emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > >> ">=media-libs/libcanberra-0.4[gtk]". > >> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > >> - media-libs/libcanb

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone

2011-05-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:41:37PM +0200, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote: > As the subject line says, all variables pertaining to locale are gone (LANG & > LINGUAS not set, LC_* set to POSIX"). > In which file are they supposed to be set these days ? > /etc/env.d/02locale W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:07:33AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Does [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 from 'eselect profile list' amount > to a "minimal" install (no X)? If so, is there any reason not to > switch to it instead of setting -vlc, and then later when actually > ready to enable X, switching ba

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Indi wrote: > Sounds like the old "6 of one, a half-dozen of the other" to me... > What makes the subtractive method better? > This is how I interpret Alan's message: For certain flags when you enable it for a package you will have to also enable it for

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

2011-05-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:24:12AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Googling above or similar is getting me nothing useful: 70% > non-English pages, and of the remainder, 90% questions without > answers (from forums.gentoo.org), and of those with answers, answers > specific to packages bearing no appare

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

2011-05-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 09:14:55PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs > > from > > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

2011-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:33:39AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > grep "GET /Tmp/Linux/G" | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v | \ > awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc > > In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more > effective > than that > You can replace "sort |

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt: Tagging on the contents of mails

2011-06-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 08:01:00AM -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: > > > > Yes, Dale, I tried that before. "T tage mail matching a pattern" does > > not what I seems to be: It matches only against the subject line. > > This was the reason, why I asked here... > > > > Best regards, > > mcc > > > > Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] net-print/hplip-3.11.5 compile fails

2011-06-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:40:06PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > +*hplip-3.11.5-r1 (19 Jun 2011) > + > + 19 Jun 2011; Daniel Pielmeier > +hplip-3.11.5-r1.ebuild, > + +files/hplip-3.11.5-cups-1.5.patch: > + Fix build with cups-1.5, thanks to Dale for the report on the gentoo-user > + mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:39:00PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > >> /bin/sh is a symlink to bash. > > > > Which runs as sh when run from the symlink. > > I dont understand. "runs as" usually means "runs under the user > context" to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode? Yes, from t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:46:08AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Joshua Murphy wrote: > >gdb is the GNU Debugger. As for the usability of strace in your case, > >if you can see the last few calls before the lock-up occurs, it could > >help narrow things down a bit. Also, if you SSH into the machine and > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:52:12AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong > address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how > you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug. If this is a continuation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Dale wrote: > YoYo Siska wrote: > >I guess it starts to download it to a temp file, than moves it to the > >file you choose (never looked into it)... so the problem would be most > >likely in that operation.. > I just find it downright odd that a browser c

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:37:24PM -0500, Dale wrote: > > Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my > drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are > called? That usually won't throw a kernel panic. That usually just gives an error. W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's sensible really - portage is not the only package manager out > there and therefore should not be in @system. The user did not put > portage in world, and did not use -D, so portage is not updating the > package. > > The solu

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:10:25AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Though it is silly IMHO that portage would want to remove itself > > with depclean. Could it not be hardcoded into portage that it > > should try to keep itself updated and not commit suicide? > > (Independently of the @system sets.

[gentoo-user] texlive-2011 upgrade headsup

2011-08-14 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, Just a minor glitch I ran into in upgrading texlive-2010 to texlive-2011, I am not sure how reproducible this is, so I am posting it here instead of filing a bug, just in case someone else runs into the same problem. It is likely that this problem won't occur at all for those not using t

Re: [gentoo-user] "pstree" for modules ?

2011-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:42:09AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > You could still create a tree, but only by making most modules appear > multiple times. Just like the '--tree' option for 'emerge' W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem build gconf

2011-10-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:15:34PM +0200, 4k3nd0 wrote: > i put the build log into pastbin: http://pastebin.com/CXEFY342 > What is the version of pango you have installed? It may be related to this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384779 W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote: > Il 06/10/2011 23:09, David Abbott ha scritto: > >To see your default editor and pager; > >eselect editor list&& eselect pager list > > It's strange, there was no defaults editor and pager... > > laptop ~ # eselect editor list && es

[gentoo-user] Combining multiple pointer devices into one

2011-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all other mouse devices. On the console I want to use gpm to get a pointer, but gpm can only take one MOUSEDEV entry at a time (as far as I know), so curr

Re: [gentoo-user] Combining multiple pointer devices into one

2011-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:57:10AM +, James Broadhead wrote: > On 31 October 2011 09:13, Willie Wong wrote: > > When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, > > mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all > > other mouse de

[gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and now am getting a bit confused. Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to [ebuild U ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.10.4 [1.10.4] [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > (i) What is icedtea-web? > > If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s > output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point > right at the start of the page that icedtea-web is mostly Jav

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:00:51AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Well, while Willie picks himself up after being slammed like this (Had > bad day, Alan?), I might add that the only reason why portage wants to > emerge icedtea and icedtea-bin is that apparently virtual/jre:1.7 has > been keyworded

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:07:43PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > To find out why portage wants the JDK, run `emerge -pv --depclean > virtual/jdk`. Repeat until you find @world or something looking familiar. > > I bet you have LibreOffice installed with USE="java". There is an old > thread from e

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:13:34AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > alias th='date -d @$1' > > was the first try, then adding '+' &/or '\' to escape '+' or '@'. > I also tried a function along similar lines. > That is not how you use alias. What you want is to use a function. Replace the alias li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 03:29:27PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > what does "graphite" add ? > > > > It makes gcc-4.5.3 use a newer method to detect parallelism, thus > (potentially) makes programs compiled by gcc to have better multithreaded > performance. Now, why can't the USE descriptions be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:41:21PM +, James wrote: > > Now, why can't the USE descriptions be like the kernel option > > descriptions and have something like what Pandu wrote included? > > I added this to root's .bashrc a long time ago: > > # USE flag settings hack by Ciaran McCreesh: > exp

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't use print after installed CUPS ?

2011-11-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 04:17:11PM +0800, 俞强 wrote: > thanks for you reply, > > yes, i compile cups just by hand, and i compared with the files you send, > though you cups version is 1.4.8, but i think the compare result is > also value. most of files are the same as mine, but my libs are installe

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash player

2010-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:40:18PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > As shown, I have Flash Player 10 installed. (I unmasked and upgraded to the > installed version in an effort to fix this issue.) On multiple sites, > however, > using Firefox, I get the following message or similar: > > Sorry,

[gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? In particular, media-gfx/ipe has an RDEPEND on !seamonkey? ( || ( www-client/mozilla-firefox www-client/firefox-bin ) ) which is broken by the recent move of www-client/mozilla-firefox to www-client/firefox (

Re: [gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:56:43PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise > > overlay? > > i would either write directly to the maintainer of the ebuild > or send a note to irc channel dedicated to sunrise. ... and of course /usr/local/po

[gentoo-user] inkscape fails, cannot find boost

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
Dear list, Just want a sanity check. I try to emerge the most recent version of inkscape (media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.0), and the build fails in the configuration stage -snip build.log checking for IMAGEMAGICK... yes checking for CAIRO_USER_FONTS... yes checking for INKSCAPE... yes checking

Re: [gentoo-user] ~40 new perl-related ebuilds, why???

2010-09-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:20:54PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world > > [ebuild N] perl-core/Module-Build-0.36.07 > [ebuild N] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.36.07 > [ebuild N] dev-perl/Error-0.17.016 USE="-test" > [ebuild N] dev-vcs/git-

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/autotoolset

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 04:01:14AM -0400, dhk wrote: > > I thought all the auto tools were in the autotoolset, that's not the > case. It looks like the only tool I use in autotoolset is acmkdir. If > I remove autotoolset, how can I get acmkdir back? Even though it's not > necessary, it's a nice

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:45:49PM +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote: > I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A > to server B. > > I'd like to do that via ssh and with no user assistance, completely > automated. > > Setting up a public key, would do the job, but then,

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:14:47PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:45:49PM +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A > > to server B. > > > > I'd like to do that via ssh and wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:40:31PM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote: > > Is there a way to allow only one single command from a single cronjob to > > operate passwordless, while keeping all the other connections secured by > > a password? > > You can't do that on a per-command basis. You'd be trying to c

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote: > Now, the remote sshd is never sent any information about what is > connected to the local end of the pipe (which is not even known to > ssh!), so there is no way to alter its behavior depending on that. > > IOW, nothing in the setup y

Re: [gentoo-user] text in xterm

2010-10-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:29:36PM +, James wrote: > Using various different hardware configurations -- my laptop has a > Intel 915GM. The same thing happens on my iMac which has an nVidia > card. > > I tried to take a screenshot of the issue, but the artifacts do NOT > appear in the screensho

Re: DNS Issues [Was: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow Login, Sudo, etc.]

2010-10-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:59:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > >> Seriously, just use wicd, dump the rest. > > > > +1 > > Call me old-fashioned, I use wpa_supplicant. :) Act

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails

2010-10-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed > * with exit value -1. > * > * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named > * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www- > * c

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:43:34PM -0500, Dale wrote: > I'm guessing it is a command line thing. I like a GUI. I could have > used Lynx to access my email and not even have fluxbox. ^_^ Gmail has > web access so I could do it that way I guess. You can, in fact, also read G-mail with Mutt thr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:24:23PM +, Mick wrote: > Thank you Graham for your very detailed reply! I understand now why the > problem exists. I have used the registry change suggested by Nuno on Win7 > and > will see what gives next time DST changes. I just hope that it'll work > without

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:07:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> Something I have not run into before. > > >> > > >> Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will > > >> not run on $HOME. > > >> > > > By the time the command hits ls itself, the shell has already expan

Re: [gentoo-user] Command-line wicd?

2010-11-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 07:06:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:55 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter > Humphrey did opine thusly: > > > I'm installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad laptop > wicd is designed for laptops and mobile computers. Alan: time for new read

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mutt attachment viewing

2010-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:15:39PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > With the entry: > > text/html; links %s; nametemplate=%s.html > > > it does not work: > > [-- Autovie

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer > able > to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). > Do you actually need a full blown mail server? If you just relay your mail to y

Re: [gentoo-user] after update ssh with shared_keys don't work

2010-11-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:56:18PM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote: > I updated yesterday my gentoo box. And now I can't login with SSH > through shared keys on my clients Server what I did all the time. I am confused (as usually is the case when I see someone trying to describe a client/server setup):

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

2010-11-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:42:24PM -0800, Grant wrote: > > qfile -orphans ? > > That sounds promising but I get: > > # qfile --orphans > Usage: qfile : list all pkgs owning files > qfile --orphans needs to take input a filename. So to go through your system looking for all orphaned files, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 05:36:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Prevailing opinion on /. That is a strange sentence itself. To see Alan deferring to the higher authority of the collective wisdom of /. is... well... surprising. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@mat

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:58:01PM +0800, fei huang wrote: >I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a > upgrade to version 9.09, > > it does not support transparency any more, but my Xresources had been always > working for me. > > > post a snippet of my config file

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:36:01AM +0800, fei huang wrote: > ok, everything is back to normal again, I downgraded my rxvt-unicode to > 9.07-r2 and it worked as before. shall I report a bug or maybe I still > missed something? > Go ahead and file a bug, but as pseudotransparency was never official

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:04:10AM -0800, Keith Dart wrote: > I had previously used method 3, with an entry in my ~/.Xdefaults for > it, that worked fine. It stopped for some reason with this new version. > I suspect they may have removed the "hacks" they talked about and now > depend on a properly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mutt+gnupg: how do you name the attached signature file ?

2010-12-11 Thread Willie Wong
Jean-Christophe: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:31:41PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: > It would be great if this patch were added to the gentoo-patches when > gpg flag is enabled for mutt. Thanks for the work! If you want the patch merged into the gentoo patch set, I think you should file a bug

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

2010-12-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:02:55PM +, Mick wrote: > Right, I thought as much, but Valmor's removal of > /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.conf through me out. > > Can wicd write to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf? I don't know, but, then again, why would it need to? I know that wicd does write

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:27:27PM -0200, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > I think that this software, wicd, is just to ubuntu's users not to > Gentoo. You are in the minority. Many on this list (including me) use wicd for desktop/laptop use. > If work without gui,, why i need a gui? wicd doesn't require

[gentoo-user] [OT] find lines in text file by length

2011-01-29 Thread Willie Wong
This is way OT, but I hope someone here can give me a quick answer: I have a text-file. Individual lines of it run from 10 to several thousand characters in length. Is there a simple* command that allows me to only display the lines that are, say, at least 300 characters long? Thanks in advance,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] find lines in text file by length

2011-01-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 03:08:11PM +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Oh, and obviously > > grep '.\{300\}' file > D'Oh! That's really obvious. Thanks! W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxione

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 06:43:32PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > The current ebuild is screen-4.0.3, and up to screen-4.0.3-r4 (with > ~everything) shows up after an "emerge --sync". I can > "./configure --with-various-options && make && make install" with the > best of them (not that I know what

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mouse Problem

2006-09-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:02:43PM +0600, Penguin Lover Suranga Kasthuriarachchi squawked: > instruction. every things are working find, but the problem is my USB Mouse > is moving very slowly, but other software like FireFox, open office working > fast. please help me on this. If you just want t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Extracting IP addresses with grep

2006-10-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:51:05PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.maildir/.SPAM/cur $ cat * | grep -P m/\d+\.\d+\.\d > +\.\d+/ You might want the expression in quotes to prevent bash from intercepting those backslashes. grep -P '\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+' HTH, W -- Willie W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: how thorough is #emerge --sync?

2006-10-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:30:40AM -0700, Darren Kirby wrote: > > > Well, I'm the upstream author, and _I_ think there should be different > > > (ie: newer) version offered. Good enough? > > > > No, not good enough, as that doesn't matter at all. All that matters is, > > what's in the tree. And the

Re: [gentoo-user] Run script when X is idle for some time?

2006-10-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:32:35AM +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: > I'd like to run a script after X is idle for some time (e.g. 5 > minute), just like what gaim do (it set my status to "away" if I > haven't touch anything for some time). How can I do? FYI, I have > some Shell/C/Python programming

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: how thorough is #emerge --sync?

2006-10-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:38:20AM -0400, Penguin Lover Devon Miller squawked: > I would suggest Darren look through the develoiper list ( > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml) for developers > handling media-sound. Add them to the cc list on the 0.9.2 ebuild and add a > co

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:09:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > I'm having a problem when composing mail in a ssh session since I > upgraded the remote kernel to 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 (I had 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 > before). I'm using vim to compose a message in pine and suddenly it stops

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:21:47AM +0100, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > I tried but the problem didn't manifest. Neither did it without screen > (it doesn't manifest always), so it's not conclusive... My suspicion is still on ssh over a flaky connection. With only two incidents, I don'

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Willie Wong
I have one question about xmms alternatives: xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys on my "multimedia" keyboard bound to remote controls and also certain voice commands bound to playing and stopping of music), can someone point me to an alternative of xmms that also s

[gentoo-user] Incomplete Merge

2006-10-26 Thread Willie Wong
I ran into a broken ebuild the other day in my overlay that, after compiling and installing, wouldn't merge the files into their proper directories (emerge would just hang after saying that it is merging the package). The problem has since been solved (with an updated ebuild), but emerge still tell

Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation

2006-11-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0800, Penguin Lover W.Kenworthy squawked: > I recently had cause to use "less" from a real console, not an xterm and > found that it really does colourise text. It has never done this in an > xterm - how do I turn it on? "man" isnt being very helpful here :( >

Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation

2006-11-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 03:06:04AM +0100, Penguin Lover Thomas R?sner squawked: > This is for programs having color output you want to pipe to less, not > less showing a syntax highlighted file. This is done by the gentoo less > filter that automagically unzips README.gz files when viewing them w

Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation

2006-11-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 08:18:27PM +0100, Penguin Lover Benno Schulenberg squawked: > Willie Wong wrote: > > LESS (should be -R -M --shift 5 by default) > > When doing > > export LESS="-R -M --shift 5" > > a C-file viewed with 'less' is co

[gentoo-user] What is XCB? (and do I care?)

2006-11-26 Thread Willie Wong
An update on my testing box shows this: [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.1 [1.0.3-r1] USE="-xcb%" euse -i xcb says: [-] xcb (x11-libs/libX11): Support the X C-language Binding, a replacement for Xlib I looked on google, which pointed me to the freedesktop.org description and the wikipedia

Re: [gentoo-user] fbiterm

2006-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:36:45PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > What is it? > > eix says "Framebuffer internationalized terminal emulator" and the > homepage is supposed to be > "http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/projects/iterm/"; > It seems this is a IBM decoy, since it gets merciles

Re: [gentoo-user] arabtex ebuild/package?

2006-12-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:02:40AM +0100, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > I do have a big problem due to there's no ebuild for arabtex > (http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ivi/bs/research/arab_e.html) in > portage ... and I'm not skilled enough to build one by myself yet (I'm > st

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:44:19PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > I gave bash_completion a try, and it seemed a Good Thing. Problem is it > was behaving like a pig, consuming all cpu ressources (99%) and freezing > the computer (temporarily). This has to be a misconfiguration issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:19:58AM +, Penguin Lover Mike Williams squawked: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 00:03, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Always using that much resources? That doesn't sound right. What > > > completions were you trying when it freezes up? > > > > Something trivial: less README

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:25:49AM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > Already did it (commented out the line in ~/.bashrc and sourced this > file...) It doesn't freeze now, of course. > > > Which version of bash completion? And which version of bash? (Just want to check if you are ru

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:10:55PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > >Which version of bash completion? And which version of bash? > > > app-shells/bash-completion-20050121-r10 > app-shells/bash-3.1_p17 Okay, so you are on stable I see. > $ complete -p less > complete -o filenames -

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:17:59PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > Not really all kind of completion, but I noticed that it froze on > trivial completions (the kind that should work even without > bash-completion). Hold on, so the command completions, like say tar giving you A c d

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:37:01PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Willie Wong wrote: > It doesn't freeze, and it displays what you said. However, the first two > output lines are: > ash: compgen: warning: -F option may not work as you expect &

Re: [gentoo-user] pants

2007-01-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:40:12PM -0700, Penguin Lover Korthrun squawked: > None of the grepping found anything sadly, and no one else uses this > box. It's my home workstation. > > I dropped out of Xorg and noticed that it wasn't in my env any more. > Installed fluxbox and fired it up and behold

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