From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RjH0l-0001Nw-Ch for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:07:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1064A21C178; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 21:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF78521C16A for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 21:06:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E412CDECA8 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 21:06:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id W1+tZGodpGss for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 21:32:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F570DEC6A for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 21:06:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphite causing trouble Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 21:06:31 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.1.6-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201201051514.17816.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201201061655.26220.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4F072CFB.7060107@orlitzky.com> In-Reply-To: <4F072CFB.7060107@orlitzky.com> X-KMail-Markup: true Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_XJ2BP1dD8APCp6Q" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201062106.31551.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: f71ab466-f122-4076-bbd8-91221300f0e4 X-Archives-Hash: 86dcb285e275e10d2115ecec321c591e --Boundary-01=_XJ2BP1dD8APCp6Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Friday 06 January 2012 17:18:51 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On the one hand, it's kind of fun and educational to have something > break in a novel way so that you can figure out how to fix it. Only snag, in my case, is that with passing years I'm beginning to find myself going round in circles, gnashing my teeth more loudly each time. > On the other hand, those things only break when you have something > important to do. Now that's just paranoia! You only remember the breakages that coincide with inconvenience. > I try to keep my laptop in good shape, and then do the unspeakable to my > desktop machine at home. If I ever need to do something urgently (fill > out a spreadsheet to apply for a scholarship) and something is broken > (libreoffice can't find libhahakissyournightgoodbye.so.1) I can always > walk into the living room and do it on the laptop. My unspeakable things aren't open to discussion in this forum :-) But I do have an 8-year-old dual-Opteron box that I can do indescribable things to at whim. It still shows many a younger system a clean pair of heels but it is rather too noisy for everyday use, not to mention overnight. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 --Boundary-01=_XJ2BP1dD8APCp6Q Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Friday 06 January 2012 17:18:51 Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> On the one hand, it's kind of fun and educational to have something

> break in a novel way so that you can figure out how to fix it.

Only snag, in my case, is that with passing years I'm beginning to find myself going round in circles, gnashing my teeth more loudly each time.

> On the other hand, those things only break when you have something

> important to do.

Now that's just paranoia! You only remember the breakages that coincide with inconvenience.

> I try to keep my laptop in good shape, and then do the unspeakable to my

> desktop machine at home. If I ever need to do something urgently (fill

> out a spreadsheet to apply for a scholarship) and something is broken

> (libreoffice can't find libhahakissyournightgoodbye.so.1) I can always

> walk into the living room and do it on the laptop.

My unspeakable things aren't open to discussion in this forum :-)

But I do have an 8-year-old dual-Opteron box that I can do indescribable things to at whim. It still shows many a younger system a clean pair of heels but it is rather too noisy for everyday use, not to mention overnight.

Rgds

Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

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