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by 52midnight
Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:11 pm
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: The Mini-PC revolution
Replies: 23
Views: 16169

> Compared with desktop not much power. ~400 dollars SoC without memory and Storage Disk, worthly spend of money

OK, I'll assume that English is your third language - no penalties.

Consider this:

http://www.compulab.co.il/about/company-history/

They've been in business since 1992 and are still ...
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by 52midnight
Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:36 am
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: The Mini-PC revolution
Replies: 23
Views: 16169

> these things have been always expensive.

Until now. And not fanless:

http://www.fanlesstech.com/

Anyhow, I'll bow out. I'm talking about REAL PC's (Intel/AMD) not toys with mobile phone CPUs.
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by 52midnight
Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:15 am
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: The Mini-PC revolution
Replies: 23
Views: 16169

> the revolution was a number of years ago.

Hmm. Well, I personally date it from the release of Intel's 14nm chips that allowed the first fanless boxes and mobos (Tuesday June 3, 2014 8:06 am PDT):

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/03/intel-broadwell-reference/

"Intel today showed off a new ...
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by 52midnight
Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:51 am
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: The Mini-PC revolution
Replies: 23
Views: 16169

> for heavy workload not enough mobile processors.

Nope. Celerons and the i3/i5/i7 lot. RTFM.
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by 52midnight
Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:24 am
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: The Mini-PC revolution
Replies: 23
Views: 16169

The Mini-PC revolution

I posted an earlier thread about Mini-PCs and wasn't surprised to find that few understood the subject, since I only came across it myself by chance. Briefly, there is a revolution well underway as to what constitutes a "PC" that will probably take another year to hit mainstream media. I've archived ...
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by 52midnight
Sun Aug 09, 2015 11:23 pm
Forum: Kernel & Hardware
Topic: At last! A printer with refillable ink reservoirs.
Replies: 10
Views: 4446

Found this online:

http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux ... edirect=on

Seems like a Brother laser might be the go!
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by 52midnight
Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:35 pm
Forum: Kernel & Hardware
Topic: At last! A printer with refillable ink reservoirs.
Replies: 10
Views: 4446

> a Brother that does auto double sided printing on sale for $59.99.

At that price it would suit me nicely if it's Linux-friendly.
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by 52midnight
Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:34 am
Forum: Kernel & Hardware
Topic: At last! A printer with refillable ink reservoirs.
Replies: 10
Views: 4446

> there are third-party products for some existing printers that also provide similar bulk-ink functionality

Interesting, didn't know.

> I hardly print anything anymore

Yes, this is part of my dilemma.

> if the printer also solves all other issues going along with heavy use

One reason the ...
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by 52midnight
Thu Aug 06, 2015 6:14 pm
Forum: Kernel & Hardware
Topic: At last! A printer with refillable ink reservoirs.
Replies: 10
Views: 4446

52midnight,
Epson usually provide binary blob drivers for their printers.
A long time ago it was a one size fits all driver.
I'm in the market for a new printer, so this came along just at the right time. Problem is I swore off Epson some years ago after two bad experiences. Have had good results ...
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by 52midnight
Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:34 pm
Forum: Kernel & Hardware
Topic: At last! A printer with refillable ink reservoirs.
Replies: 10
Views: 4446

At last! A printer with refillable ink reservoirs.

Epson has released a printer with refillable ink reservoirs. The original article is behind a paywall, so I've reposted it here:

http://52midnight.com/tmp/Epson_refillable_printer.html

The downside is having to pay the REAL cost of the printer, instead of an unrealistic discount to encourage ...
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by 52midnight
Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:02 am
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Bug in portage? Changes written to wrong file.
Replies: 8
Views: 2922

It does seems to be selecting the latest in the lex order, as xaviermiller suggested.
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by 52midnight
Wed Jul 08, 2015 11:21 pm
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice - any preferences?
Replies: 21
Views: 21328

> It seemed that openoffice turned evil

It was taken over for a time by one of the American billionaires, barely escaped with its life, and has since been living in fear, or so I'm told.

> development of OpenOffice has pretty much ceased.

Hmm, well that's interesting.

> I just want an open ...
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by 52midnight
Wed Jul 08, 2015 11:15 pm
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Bug in portage? Changes written to wrong file.
Replies: 8
Views: 2922

> writing the latest file in lexicographical order.

Yes, that's what appears to be happening. When it updates a file I created and named 'terminator-should-be-calibre' so that it wouldn't know about it, something's amiss!
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by 52midnight
Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:52 am
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Bug in portage? Changes written to wrong file.
Replies: 8
Views: 2922

No, wasn't aware the command existed. Machine busy, will post back tomorrow - +12hrs . Thanks.
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by 52midnight
Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:06 am
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice - any preferences?
Replies: 21
Views: 21328

> I started with the code way back when it was StarOffice on OS/2.

Now THAT brings back memories. Thought StarOffice was great back when.

BTW, there are binary packages for both OOo and libreOffice to save compiling them for anyone interested.
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by 52midnight
Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:43 am
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Bug in portage? Changes written to wrong file.
Replies: 8
Views: 2922

If I'm emerging sigil, either to /package.use/sigil or /package.use/_cfg0001-sigil
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by 52midnight
Wed Jul 08, 2015 1:12 am
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Bug in portage? Changes written to wrong file.
Replies: 8
Views: 2922

Bug in portage? Changes written to wrong file.

After emerging terminator and creating a file in /package.use/ I tried emerging calibre, to be met with a long list of changes. I accepted the default to write them to the USE file, but they got written to a config-change file 'cfg00001-terminator'.

I renamed this 'terminator-should-be-calibre' and ...
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by 52midnight
Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:49 am
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: HTML, EPUB, PDF and automated publishing.
Replies: 5
Views: 6457

Been a while since I looked at Calibre. If is does PDFs then I'll definitely take a look. Thanks
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by 52midnight
Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:35 pm
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: HTML, EPUB, PDF and automated publishing.
Replies: 5
Views: 6457

HTML, EPUB, PDF and automated publishing.

I'm currently preparing a large, multi-file document for publication, and intend making it available in three formats:

- HTML for reading on the Net.
- EPUB for the modern eReaders.
- PDF for printed versions.

Given that I expect several revised versions in coming months, I want to automate the ...
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by 52midnight
Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:06 pm
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice - any preferences?
Replies: 21
Views: 21328

Very interesting, and many thanks for the dependencies warning. I notice that OO is now Apache OO, that being both the licence and the support site, I suppose. Given OO's disadvantage, it might make them try a bit harder, so the balance may change.
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by 52midnight
Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:23 pm
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice - any preferences?
Replies: 21
Views: 21328

OpenOffice vs LibreOffice - any preferences?

Some may remember the kerfuffle a while back when the OOo project was taken over by commercial interests, resulting in the mass defection of project staff and setting up of the LibreOffice fork. The Evil Swindler responsible eventually gave it away, but we're now left with a duplicate project.

Does ...
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by 52midnight
Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:25 am
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Blocked eudev/udev conflict stopsf lxde-meta [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 1979

Now that's REAL insider information - thanks. I've used package.mask to block eudev and udevs later than 215, but this insight could be useful down the track.
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by 52midnight
Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:46 pm
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Blocked eudev/udev conflict stopsf lxde-meta [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 1979

Thanks for that! On further reflection, it looks as if the system is wanting the latest versions, but trying to switch to eudev because they're not yet in the tree - ?
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by 52midnight
Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:40 pm
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Blocked eudev/udev conflict stopsf lxde-meta [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 1979

Blocked eudev/udev conflict stopsf lxde-meta [SOLVED]

A new installation with everything up to Xorg installed without problems. Then 'emerge lxde-base/lxde-meta' lists three blocked packages:

eudev-3.1.2 pulled in by eudev-1.3 required by (udev-215 installed) eudev-1.3.0 etc
udev-220 pulled in by eudev-1.3 required by (udev-215 installed) udev-208 etc ...
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by 52midnight
Sat Jul 04, 2015 1:24 pm
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Installing slang breaks the emerge script [SOLVED]
Replies: 2
Views: 11579

VoidMage wrote:Well, as portage seems to be temporarily down, some of the data will likely need to be gathered manually...
Thanks for the tip. I got onto IRC and found the problem - needs a restart. Have marked this SOLVED.
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