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nharmon
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response 383 of 563:
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Mar 2 13:37 UTC 2006 |
How does it run?
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kingjon
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response 384 of 563:
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Mar 2 13:41 UTC 2006 |
Haven't tried it yet -- I hadn't updated in days, so now I have to re-emerge
(some upgrades, some with changed USE flags) 49 packages, starting with GCC.
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keesan
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response 385 of 563:
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Mar 2 15:23 UTC 2006 |
What happens if you don't upgrade 49 packages? Are these hardward upgrades,
security upgrades, bug fixes? Surely you don't need GCC to run Open Office.
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kingjon
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response 386 of 563:
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Mar 2 18:53 UTC 2006 |
Some of these are security upgrades, some are bug fixes, some are just changes
because I told it to globally not include some features anymore. The reason I
need to wait is that compiling uses so much of the CPU that I couldn't tell the
difference if OO would even run. GCC was upgrading from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4, I
think.
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kingjon
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response 387 of 563:
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Mar 2 19:55 UTC 2006 |
And 49 packages isn't really all that much. In the six or so hours it's got
only 19 left, counting glibc, which it's finished compiling but not installing
yet right now.
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keesan
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response 388 of 563:
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Mar 2 22:57 UTC 2006 |
It sound like you are spending at least 8 hours a week compiling upgrades.
Have you noticed things working better after each one?
We upgraded Opera from 7.23 to 8.51 and discovered the latter would not load
(seg fault) and went back to 7.23, which may lack a few bug fixes but also
lacks some new bugs.
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kingjon
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response 389 of 563:
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Mar 3 01:55 UTC 2006 |
I'm spending probably more like 4 hours, mostly in the middle of the night or
while I'm doing something else. All the non-upgrade updates are recompiling
because I told it to not link in some libraries, so the things that had them
linked in are recompiling to remove those dependencies.
As for "getting better": there's about 5 major security announcements each week
on average recently from Gentoo, all of which say "upgrade to such-and-such a
version", which I have had for a few days.
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keesan
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response 390 of 563:
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Mar 3 03:54 UTC 2006 |
Do you need a security update when you are not running a server?
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kingjon
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response 391 of 563:
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Mar 3 04:08 UTC 2006 |
Yes. There were holes in gpdf (the replacement for xpdf) which would allow a
specially crafted pdf file to execute arbitrary code on my machine, for
instance. If my computer were never connected to the Internet, it wouldn't need
updating, but mine doesn't fit that description. :)
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keesan
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response 392 of 563:
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Mar 3 04:27 UTC 2006 |
Does gpdf do something better than xpdf?
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kingjon
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response 393 of 563:
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Mar 3 11:01 UTC 2006 |
Xpdf's code was duplicated in a lot of things haphazardly, making it hard to
apply security updates, so a library called Poppler is used dynamically by
applications instead.
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jadecat
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response 394 of 563:
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Mar 3 14:47 UTC 2006 |
IHB- it's Friday and I have Monday and Tuesday off- yay for 4 day
weekends! AND the hubby and I are going to see my stepdaughter and
grandbaby tomorrow. :)
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edina
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response 395 of 563:
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Mar 3 15:50 UTC 2006 |
IHB it's Friday and the week has been a long and draining one. Work is pretty
intense now, as I'm supporting an attorney in a 6-8 week trial, plus another
who is writing appellant brief upon appellant brief. Fortunately, my weekends
are my own, so when Friday night rolls around, at least I know I don't have
to go in for two days.
I'm also VERY happy that my husband is taking me on a date tomorrow night to
the Melting Pot.
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slynne
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response 396 of 563:
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Mar 3 16:15 UTC 2006 |
The Melting Pot? Please tell me that is a fondue place becaue the name
is about perfect if it is.
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edina
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response 397 of 563:
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Mar 3 16:43 UTC 2006 |
It is a fondue place. www.meltingpot.com
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micklpkl
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response 398 of 563:
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Mar 3 17:22 UTC 2006 |
The Melting Pot is an awesome place for a date, though I think dessert is the
best course. Oh, be sure to wear something that you don't care if it gets a
huge dribbled chocolate stain on it. :)
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edina
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response 399 of 563:
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Mar 3 17:27 UTC 2006 |
That is my place and a date is exactly what we have in mind.
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tod
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response 400 of 563:
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Mar 3 17:30 UTC 2006 |
re #398
Like a blue dress?
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edina
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response 401 of 563:
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Mar 3 17:32 UTC 2006 |
I'm wearing a black blouse - so no worries.
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slynne
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response 402 of 563:
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Mar 3 18:18 UTC 2006 |
That looks like a fun place. I hope you enjoy it.
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edina
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response 403 of 563:
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Mar 3 18:19 UTC 2006 |
We've been once and we very much did. It's nice because it's a very leisurely
meal, very relaxed. I *love* that.
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denisea
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response 404 of 563:
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Mar 3 20:17 UTC 2006 |
There's a Melting Pot in Raleigh that I've been to several times over the
years; its always been a fun evening!
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kingjon
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response 405 of 563:
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Mar 5 01:50 UTC 2006 |
I'm happy because OpenOffice, specially compiled, seems to be running more
smoothly than the binary package did. I didn't do much for this test -- opened
a short text file, removed the intra-paragraph line breaks, removed the
"preformatted" formatting, and saved it in a different file format -- but I
would have had a half a second to a second or so delay with each major
operation before, and here I didn't see any delay.
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twenex
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response 406 of 563:
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Mar 5 03:24 UTC 2006 |
IA unbelievably HB my gentoo box, which appeared to have switched
itself off this morning and wouldn't come back up, is mysteriously working
again after some clueless, desperate power plug-unplugging and re-inserting.
Very weird, but also insanely great!
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keesan
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response 407 of 563:
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Mar 5 12:48 UTC 2006 |
You probably removed some tarnish with the (un)plugging, that was lowering
the voltage. If the problem recurs, try removing something from the box that
consumes power, such as CD-ROM drive. That fixed mine.
What is the big deal, Jonathan, about a 1 second delay? Or does the delay
get a lot longer with bigger files?
You would think a grexer would be used to long delays ;=)
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