On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:28:09PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:26:12AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote
>
> > from 'man tty'
> >
> >tty - print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input
>
> Thanks. That simplifies
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:13:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is
> missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still
> there but installed onder /opt I think it was.
>
/usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg
> gentoolkit
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:07:07PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
> But I notice in yahoo when I try to read my mail after
> logging into my account I'm bumped to a window that
> says my browser is not setup to go to that URL,
Perhaps it checks for JavaScript? or browser ID string? I
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:42:58PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked:
> No, it's probably checking for the ability to go to an http*s*:// url (a
> secure site, which Yahoo!Mail passes through for authentication when
> logging you in. I just checked, and when you log in, you go (very
> qui
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:26:18AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> Ok, does anyone run a udev system without hotplug and coldplug?
>
sep wwong # rc-update show | grep plug
sep wwong #
USB keys work just fine, so does my DigiCam.
Then again, I compiled mostly everything I need into the k
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 10:00:42AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> I'm just trying to figure out what I need for my laptop and for my
> server. I'd rather not have useless stuff on my systems, but I don't
> want anything to break either. Also, should hotplug be added to the
> default runle
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:52:56PM -0800, Penguin Lover Daevid Vincent squawked:
> Is there any recommended text viewer/editor whereby I can easily step
> through the files (previous/next file), read .gz files, jump to the end of a
> file, and most importantly, delete the current file?
Perhaps les
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:21:02PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
> > > something like that. I notice, also that Ctrl-A,
> > X, V
> > > have no effect but I can move between pages using
> > Alt
> > > and the arrow keys. Is there some way to activate
> > > those dead keys without having
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:24:37PM +1300, Penguin Lover Tom Eastman squawked:
> Is there a tool that will allow me to find *all* files that aren't owned
> by any package, so that I can then decide what to do with them?
> Obviously skipping directories such as /home/. Then I can delete
> everything
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:02:53PM -0600, Penguin Lover John Jolet squawked:
> javascript is, in fact, not java. typically, in the context of web
> sites, java is run server-side and essentially returns html for your
Not quite. Java applets are mostly run client side, with possibly
a server-s
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 05:07:28AM -0500, Penguin Lover John Blinka squawked:
> Willie Wong wrote:
>
> >For what it's worth, I believe those people reporting "success" might
> >be trying the wrong page. The website redirects all deep-links to the
> >front p
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:11:16AM -0200, Penguin Lover Daniel da Veiga
squawked:
> I'm using a fresh installed Gentoo and Firefox 1.0.7, so, I have no
> plugins (yet). And the site mentioned works great, its a simple
> javascript popping up a window, I even made a lot of these on my
> webmaster d
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:30:18PM -0800, Penguin Lover Eric Bliss squawked:
> Basically, if it isn't working right now, don't hold your breath for it to be
> fixed, either by the Firefox team, or the website developers.
>
So... what you are saying is that, basically, it is not really
anyone's f
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:08:25PM +0100, Penguin Lover ?c1lvaro Castro
squawked:
> Hello!
>
> :-) I have to say that I managed to switch completely
> to Linux!
> I'm very happy with that, although I'm still using a
> couple of closed-source programs (I cannot replace
> them at these moments)
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 01:25:41PM -0300, Penguin Lover Matias Grana squawked:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:08:25PM +0100, ??c1lvaro Castro wrote:
> > One of them is, for example, Maya7.0, which uses the
> > left button+ALT as combination for camera rotation.
> > The point is that the same inpu
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:22:33AM -0500, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked:
> I need to use ufraw, because it can read some *.raw files that dcraw
> can't read. I had to unmask ufraw because it's ~x86. ufraw also needs
> a ~x86 version of libexif. Things work OK, but emerge wants to return
>
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked:
> >> On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote:
> >
> >> > What does "not a regular file" mean? :=@
> >>
> >> Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character
> >> on the left
> >> will tell you what kind
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 10:48:15AM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeff squawked:
> Hey all.
>
> Wondering, is there a neat command-line tool that can convert MP3 into
> other formats?
>
Personally I don't like transcoding from MP3 to other formats because
of the quality loss. That said: you can do a lot w
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:04:56PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jarry squawked:
> I want to install gentoo on my pentium-m (centrino 2)
> based notebook, but I do not know which stage3 should
> I download and use: i586, i686 or x86?
The livecd-i686-installer should be fine.
> And which -march setting sh
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:03:58AM +0200, Penguin Lover Heinz Sporn squawked:
> Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 10:12 +0200 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > Thanks to everyone who replied (Willie, Daniel, Todor...)
> >
> > Just out of curiosity: how long (approximately) does it take
> > to install a com
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:22:40AM -0400, Penguin Lover Leigh Stewart squawked:
> could someone tell me where i can configure logging for portage? i.e. i
> would like emerge.log to be longer, and i would rather portage logging was
> all placed under a directory in /var/log
Go into /etc/make.conf a
This might sound like a stupid question, but I have to ask it to make
sure.
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:20:54PM -0300, Penguin Lover Allan Spagnol Comar
squawked:
> On 4/6/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > if I put > it will continue to try to upgrade instaled version 1.0.0
>
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:45:34PM -0700, Penguin Lover Daevid Vincent squawked:
> * x11-base/xorg-x11
> Latest version available: 7.0-r1
> Latest version installed: 6.8.2-r6
>
> server portage # cat /etc/portage/package.mask
> =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6
You don't want that. You wa
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:45:29PM -0400, Penguin Lover de Almeida, Valmor F.
squawked:
> I have the at utility described in my man pages but can't find it and
> don't know what package it came from; if it is indeed in my system. Does
> anyone know?
sys-process/at
W
--
Smart man + Smart woman =
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:21:26PM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
squawked:
> U sys-process/at [GPL-2]: Queues jobs for later execution
>
> Possibly?
>
> I also have the man pages but not the app. I wonder why they are in
> separate packages.
>
That is bizarre. I have the program
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:06:57AM +0100, Penguin Lover Rohit Sharma squawked:
> Hi there,
>
> Please see the following. Both /usr/bin/ln and /usr/bin/mc on my system
> seem to launch mc.
> if I delete one, the other disappears as well.
> if I emerge mc, /usr/bin/ln also appears.
> Even if /usr/bi
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:19:46AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar
squawked:
> Now, how do I allow text relocations for just ONE binary, while
> keeping it disallowed for every other executable (the ones which
> already exist and the ones, which are to come in the future)?
>
> I now would li
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:54:33PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked:
> He felt betrayed. I understand why, I think: what's secure about
> GNU/Linux if anyone can boot the system and reset his passwords?
That is the same regardless of operating system.
Physical access == no security.
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Penguin Lover fire-eyes squawked:
> I have done this as root, and also done an eselect bashcomp enable modules ,
> log out, back in, yet i am not able to complete modprobe -v ipw2[tab] which
> should expand to ipw2200.
>
Hey! Where did you get modules c
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:45:27PM -0400, Penguin Lover JimD squawked:
> try the following:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ source /etc/bash_completion
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ modprobe -v snd-inte[tab][tab]
> snd-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0m snd-interwave snd-interwave-stb
>
>
> I have to hit tab twice
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:10:44PM -0400, Penguin Lover fire-eyes squawked:
> Well, i got totally confused, it seemed i couldn't for the life of me get
> ~/.bashrc pulled in no matter what i did.
>
> I put the following into ~/.bash_profile and it worked out fine. I'm
> wondering
.bash_profile
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:40:50AM -0400, Penguin Lover Chris Bare squawked:
> oberon # emerge -puD portage
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r2 [1.3.13-r1]
> [e
Dear all,
I performed a massive update on my laptop last night, and started
observing the following behaviour on boot.
A message would pop-up saying to the effect that "udev is processing
kernel events" and then proceeds to load a bunch of kernel modules
which I didn't specify for loa
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
> On 4/28/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the
> > config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anyth
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:34:38AM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked:
> >You could try rebuilding the kernel without those modules... althoug why is
> >the kernel loading them anyway if the hardware isnt there
>
> Or, you could recompile your kernel (leaving all these modules
> selected) but in m
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
> AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading
> them.
>
Just tried that, and doesn't work. The modules are still loaded.
I tried comm
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:39:02PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked:
> A message would pop-up saying to the effect that "udev is processing
> kernel events" and then proceeds to load a bunch of kernel modules
> which I didn't specify for loading in /etc/modul
Okay, sorry for the noise. But this would be my last post on this
issue. Armed with my new bits of knowledge (udev-087 works but
udev-090 doesn't), b.g.o turns up a nice collection of bugs.
Of particular interest:
119989
130766
Basically there is a change in behaviour when 089 is introduced
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:55:28PM +0300, Penguin Lover Moshe Kaminsky squawked:
> Funny, I just tried the same, and it worked. It also didn't print any
> "after" (appropriately, since the sig handler includes 'exit'), and I
> didn't find any sleep process. Maybe it was from some different
> exp
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:21:25PM -0700, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
squawked:
> > Well, I recently switched to the binary version and to my surprise I
> > found that it is much faster than the self compiled version. Especially
> > the interface is much more responsive in the binary version.
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:12:31AM -0700, Penguin Lover Bob Sanders squawked:
> On Sat, 06 May 2006 13:13:19 +
> Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The mind boggles! It seems that I'll have to emerge elinks or lynx whether
> > I want it or not.
>
> You'll be mighty happy you have it for tha
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:52:33PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked:
> On the other hand: I wonder why w3m can be used, but not the variant
> w3mmee? I rather enjoy its multibyte character support.
nevermind. I read the ebuild more carefully this time and saw that it
depe
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:12:09PM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked:
> In such situations it is a pity the bugzilla search feature does not
> seem to work (at least not for me) with any of the text mode browsers
> that I have tried.
you seem to not have noticed the text on the error pa
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:26:40PM +, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan
squawked:
> My wife likes to do puzzles. I was wondering if there were any
> puzzle-type apps available in portage that would allow her to use her
> own images?
>
Can you clarify? What kind of puzzles? Do you mean jigsaw?
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 07:38:26PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan
squawked:
> I meant jigsaw puzzles. I didn't remember what they were called. I
> worked through about half the /usr/portage/games-puzzle directory with
> eix before I sent my original post and didn't see anything that sound
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:33:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked:
> I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I
> thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your
> most/least favourite X terminals, and why?
rxvt (desktop) and aterm (lapto
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jure Varlec squawked:
> I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I
> believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top of
> my head, I recall yeahconsole and kuake. There's also tilda,
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked:
> - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77
> - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups
> - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their
> lengths on the cdrom. "cdplay -c -v" goes through the
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:36:57PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan
squawked:
> My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for
> Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver.
> I would like to know if anything like this is available in porta
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:07:23PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan
squawked:
> We followed your advice about adding the lines to ~/Xresources. Now,
> under what screensaver name will the pictures be displayed? Right now
> my wife has her screensaver set to Random Screensaver...
Hum, I am
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:47:00AM -0300, Penguin Lover Pablo Antonio squawked:
> On 10:51 Mon 15 May , Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to
> > configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync?
> >
> > I know it can be done, howev
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:27:16AM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
squawked:
> From what I understand there's not one. I believe X.org 7 ONLY supports
> the ELF loader. It could be for the unusual case that you are running an
> X based off of the xf86 tree which, IIRC, only support
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:44:37PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked:
> [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 *
> [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardened
> [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopie
> [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopiessp
> [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednossp
> [6] i6
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:10:28PM -0500, Penguin Lover Anthony E. Caudel
squawked:
> Thanks guys. From what I've read, dlloader, while not quite
> experimental, is not used very much yet. Perhaps for the future. The
> only packages I would need it for are xorg-x11 and nvidia-glx. So I
> think
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked:
> > I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really
> > liked, so just made a wrapper myself for aterm in fvwm using a
> > borderless window, key binding for focus and shading, and EdgeCommand.
> >
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:32:55PM -0600, Penguin Lover Rennie deGraaf squawked:
> My question is, how do I correctly uninstall portage? My main concern
> is the several hundred megabytes taken up by /usr/portage,
> /var/cache/edb, /var/db/pkg, /var/lib/portage and wherever else portage
> stores d
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:06:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeremy Olexa squawked:
> Hello,
> I am wondering how any of you limit transfer speeds on a specific
> protocol. I do not need any server type applications for managing a
> network, I just need a method to limit something like HTTP traffic or
>
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> > this seems to be a brute force attack, but one thing that worried me
> > is why sshd didn't disconnect the remote host after 3 unsuccessful
> > attemps? If we see in the log, there are many attemps with time
> > interval between at
I am not quite sure what went wrong.
The result: http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wwong/20061600026.png
whenever I try to access a website with flash content on it, the
weird bands of messed-up stuff appear across the screen. It does go
away after I close the offending tab, and performs some action
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:30:04PM +0800, Penguin Lover ??? ?? squawked:
> Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying "Star
> map". By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as
> well as brightness. The more like photo, the better.
The word you a
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:16:27PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Broersma Jr
squawked:
> For example: from "emerge -DuvpN world"
> net-im/gaim-1.5.0 USE="eds nls perl spell tcltk* -cjk -debug -gnutls -krb4
> -minimal% -nas -silc"
> 0 kB
>
> Is there any significance to the USE color codes:
> RED
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:47:54AM -0400, Penguin Lover Jim squawked:
> * on the Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:39:40AM -0400, Willie Wong said:
> > I am not quite sure what went wrong.
> >
> > The result: http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wwong/20061600026.png
> > whenever I t
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:15:21PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> Hi & thanks to all who answered,
> A few comments/responses:
>
> 1) We do not run KDE.
>
How'bout good ole midnight commander?
emerge -s mc
if you compile it with USE="X" for X11 support, and run it inside an
xt
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:57:30AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked:
> Well I found a temporary work around, but it does not solve
> the problem.
>
> When the system boots and gives me the kdm login screen, I have to
> first ssh remotely and run these commands
>
> chown root:tty /dev/pty*
> ch
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Penguin Lover sean squawked:
> I would like to fine tune my USE flags a bit more and have a question.
>
> Currently I am emerging gaim, and as it proceeds I see gnome and
> evolution related items across the screen.
>
> I am not running gnome desktop or e
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:04:55AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked:
> Well I put udev in my /etc/portage/package.keyworks to get the latest
> version, thinking that might fix the problem. It do not.
I don't think that's necessary. It works perfectly fine on my system
with udev-087.
Could som
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:30:26AM +0530, Penguin Lover Aniruddha Shankar
squawked:
> Willie Wong wrote:
> >
> > Personally speaking, I suggest you emerge 'ufed'.
>
> I moved from ufed to profuse, it's slightly better with multiple display
> interfaces (
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jarry squawked:
> But description says:
> mysql: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server.
>
> And that's what I'd expect, even with minimal use-flag:
> server, not client. And if "minimal" removes server
> functionality, than i
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:19:29PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked:
> > What about /etc/conf.d/rc? Maybe you can toggle RC_DEVICES="udev" and
> > set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"? (or maybe setting it to "yes" might give
> > you a work around?)
>
>
> I edited /etc/conf.d/rc:
>
> RC_DEVICES="udev"
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:09:36PM -0400, Penguin Lover sean squawked:
> Trying out the program for the first time and one simple question is if
> you choose an item how do you specify that you want it to be a '-'?
>
> Pressing the space bar selects it, and adds it to make.conf with a +,
> but h
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:53:50PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked:
> All I need to so is issue these commands during the boot cycle,
> before I login in
>
>
> chown root:tty /dev/pty*
> chown root:tty /dev/tty*
>
>
> Any suggestions as the best place to insert/script these modifications
>
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:32:59AM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
> FYI, I'm using nvidia-kernel-1.0.8762 with xorg 7.0, and they work fine.
Thanks, and good to hear. I've been waiting for some souls braver than
I to upgrade first before making the jump myself.
W
--
I live in my own
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:21:06PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeremy Olexa squawked:
> Ryan Tandy wrote:
> > Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> >> without gtk support (aka ncurses) then I would re-emerge profuse WITHOUT
> >
> > Er... maybe I misunderstood something, but gtk and ncurses are two
> > COMPLETELY differe
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:18:39PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> 4) I emerged wpa_supplicant based on info here that says
> wpa_supplicant can be used with ndiswrapper:
>
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/WPA
>
> 5) When I emerged wpa_supplicant it said I nee
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:01:40PM -0400, Penguin Lover Colleen Beamer squawked:
> Next, the wiki said to put these lines into the /etc/conf.d/net file (which
> had nothing in it because it assumes dhcp):
>
>
>
> modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
>
> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dndiswrapper"
> wpa_timeou
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:09:39AM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> Hi,
> Why would wireless no longer work after rebuilding the kernel to
> add USB OHCI support only?
>
Since you rebuilt the kernel, you'd probably need to recompile
ndiswrapper against the new kernel. I saw that you
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:15:29PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> I do have some problems that I'm going to have to work out. I am
> getting messages about 'device initiated installation' - or something
> like that - early in the boot process. Later the kernel posts a
> message tell
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:56:52AM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
> This is weird. When I tried to edit my yahoo group
> account at groups.yahoo.com no groups were listed
> under my account name. And when I did a search for
> "gentoo-user" in the search field it didn't show up in
> the
A emerge update after a recent sync turns up the following message:
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "nvidia-kernel" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
your request:
- media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
# Thes
First, thanks for the pointers. See below
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:08:52PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
> On 7/11/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. Is there more information about what "more harm than good" means?
> > I tried goog
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:59:40PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
> I believe adding "-video_cards_nvidia" to
> /etc/portage/profile/use.mask (notice the directory!) should do it.
>
> But really this doesn't matter...this use flag is only used to add a
> dependancy on the nvidia drive
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:01:37PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
> Anybody got a .fvwm2rc they'd be willing to let me
> use?
Ooh, another fvwm user. Good for you!
My config files are posted here:
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wwong/recipe_fvwm.html
It is _very basic_, hardly anyt
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:48:51PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
> Thanks Willie,
>
> I lost the original post(oops!).
>
> I haven't tried it yet. On your site it says I'll have
> to scroll the mouse to see the whole desktop? Can that
> be turned off without screwing everything els
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 06:22:59PM +0200, Penguin Lover Meino Christian Cramer
squawked:
> Each mail is in a separate file, which is simply numbered per folder.
>
If each mail is a separate mail, it is most likely _not_ mbox.
Probably maildir.
Googling shows several mailing macros for Vim, bu
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 08:22:54PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeremy Olexa squawked:
> Hi,
> Is there any other solution to the /etc/make.profile/package.provided
> file? As we all know the /usr/portage/ dir gets wiped of custom files on
> every sync. It seems kinda silly that there is a package.provided
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked:
> Hi folks,
>
> while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I
> can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores
> them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. I
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:19:21AM +0100, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked:
> >From "man find":
>
>-size n[cwbkMG]
> File uses n units of space. The following suffixes can be used:
>
> `b'for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is
> used)
>
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:10:48PM -0400, Penguin Lover Michael [Plouj]
Ploujnikov squawked:
> Who is in charge of the mailing lists and would be the best person to
> suggest this to? Should I send this to a different gentoo-* list?
Big discussion over this about 18 months ago.
http://thread.gm
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:17:04PM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> How can I get Java applets working in Firefox? I have java in make.conf.
[10:29 PM]wwong ~ $ euse -i nsplugin
global use flags (searching: nsplugin)
[+ C ] nsplu
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:01:57AM +0200, Penguin Lover Meino Christian Cramer
squawked:
> When writing "normal" text in Emacs or loading normal text into emacs
> there was the possibility to reformat paragraphs wirh
> "fill-paragraphs" (ALT-Q) so there were linebreaks inserted and
> removed t
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 06:18:02PM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something
> lightweight. I use xfce4.
>
What's wrong with mutt? (You mentioned that you used it in another
thread.)
Best,
W
--
"You seem less impressed than you shoul
Sorry that I can't really help with your problem.
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:03:52PM -0400, Penguin Lover Colleen Beamer squawked:
> The other issue is a video from this particular link
> http://tobykeith.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm?inc=5&news_id=8090. I
> was able to get sound in video on t
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:33:39AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> >$ grep editor ~/.muttrc
> >set editor="vim +/^$ -c 'set linebreak ft=mail'"
>
> I tried the following to stop mutt from adding line breaks but it doesn't
> work:
>
> set editor="vim -c 'set nolinebreak'"
See my other ema
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:36:45AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> I was getting tired of mutt but I'm still not sure about switching.
> Have you come up with a mutt config file you like?
>
I suppose... my entire .muttrc is only 125 lines long, and over half
of those are aliases. I am not t
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:26:05PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> strace gave me a bunch of this type of info:
> and then a bunch more like that.
>
> Maybe someone else will have some ideas when they get a chance to
> look at all of this.
The strace output you posted doesn't
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:21:00PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> OK, but grep doesn't say anything either since that's the only
> line. For instance:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop $ cat TOS.txt | grep libc.so.6
> open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/
Hi all,
I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data.
I am looking for something that has >250G capacity (preferably
around 300G so I have room to grow). My desktop does not have a
firewire port, so it is essential that I can use a USB2 connection.
(Of course, it
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:08:29AM -0700, Penguin Lover Ow Mun Heng squawked:
> > Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any offered by brands that I
> > know (like I mentioend above, Maxtor/Seagate/Buffalo/etc. all have
>
> Why not? If you want a cheap one, a 2.5in one selling in
> Surpluscomput
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:32:03PM -0700, Penguin Lover darren kirby squawked:
> Where the heck is at at?
Where you'd expect :)
[07:42 PM]wwong ~ $ equery belongs atd
[ Searching for file(s) atd in *... ]
sys-process/at-3.1.8-r11 (/etc/init.d/atd)
sys-process/at-3.1.8-r11 (/usr/sbin/atd)
though,
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:49:43PM -0600, Penguin Lover Collins Richey squawked:
> >> According to the drive enclosure advertisements,
> >> metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard
> >> evidence. These units have the "standard" external AC->DC chunky
> >> blocks.
> >
> >My encl
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