Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} RAM apache MaxClients (rock a hard place)

2013-03-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday 10 Mar 2013 04:10:24 Grant wrote: Thanks for the link. Which ssl_ciphers do you use? Which one does openssl show you're using? I have: ssl_ciphers ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!EXP:!kEDH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH; To see what openssl is configured to use try: openssl ciphers

[gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Chris Walters
Hello Everyone, I have a couple of questions concerning what graphic drivers you use. Does anyone use the proprietary ATI drivers, or have used them? Would you recommend them? I just recently started using the ati-drivers package, but I don't really notice a difference - yes it does say

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.03.2013 09:54, schrieb Chris Walters: Hello Everyone, I have a couple of questions concerning what graphic drivers you use. Does anyone use the proprietary ATI drivers, or have used them? Would you recommend them? I just recently started using the ati-drivers package, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.03.2013 09:54, schrieb Chris Walters: Hello Everyone, I have a couple of questions concerning what graphic drivers you use. Does anyone use the proprietary ATI drivers, or have used them? Would you recommend them? I just recently started using the ati-drivers package, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] IO latency issues

2013-03-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.03.2013 00:53, schrieb cosmoslx lin: 2013/3/10 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com Am 09.03.2013 19:15, schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi list! Whenever I do sequential IO for a long stretch of time (e.g. md5summing

[gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess because of som patents) That worked for quite some

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the kernel, but available to be compiled as

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:36:55 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:36:55 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:49:02 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:36:55 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Wagener

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/03/2013 20:28, Daniel Wagener wrote: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess

[gentoo-user] updating /etc/udev/hwdb.bin

2013-03-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
A recent update world leads to a notice that /etc/udev/hwdb.bin needs to be updated When I tried cfg-update I received a waring asking who/what updated a binary file and suggested caution. Is there any danger in updating the file? Since it is binary would I be better off using a simple

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Alecks Gates
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: [...] I use the ati-drivers package, and I'd say there are pretty solid now. I first started using ati-drivers with my HD2600 card card - as the kernel drivers did not support the power saving mechanisms of the card.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Daniel Wagener: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/10/2013 12:19 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/03/2013 03:42, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:41:13PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote The trouble with NAT is that it destroys peer-to-peer protocols. The first was FTP in Active mode. In its day, it was OK. Nowadays, we use

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} RAM apache MaxClients (rock a hard place)

2013-03-10 Thread Grant
Thanks for the link. Which ssl_ciphers do you use? Which one does openssl show you're using? I have: ssl_ciphers ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!EXP:!kEDH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH; and 'openssl s_client -host HOSTNAME -port 443' shows: Cipher: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 I also get

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/09/2013 07:53 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Lookup ipvshit I'll give you a hint. The guy who wrote most of the pf firewall that MAC OSX now uses as well as QNX, the latest version originating from OpenBSD and being far better than iptables has bought up lots of ipv4 just to stay away

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} RAM apache MaxClients (rock a hard place)

2013-03-10 Thread Grant
Thanks for the link. Which ssl_ciphers do you use? Which one does openssl show you're using? I have: ssl_ciphers ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!EXP:!kEDH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH; To see what openssl is configured to use try: openssl ciphers Thank you but I'm most interested in the

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/03/2013 23:07, Michael Mol wrote: All those examples you give are much like a bunch of home machines sitting behind a NAT gateway onto the internet. That's actually OK and I reckon that is the intended use of NAT. I want to point out that that's only true if the home network has at

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/09/2013 07:53 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: There is no reason to believe that IPv6 will result in an increased use of IPsec. Bull. The biggest barrier to IPsec use has been NAT! If an intermediate router has to rewrite the packet to change the apparent source and/or destination

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/10/2013 05:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/03/2013 23:07, Michael Mol wrote: All those examples you give are much like a bunch of home machines sitting behind a NAT gateway onto the internet. That's actually OK and I reckon that is the intended use of NAT. I want to point out that

Re: [gentoo-user] IO latency issues

2013-03-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.03.2013 13:48, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 10.03.2013 00:53, schrieb cosmoslx lin: 2013/3/10 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com Am 09.03.2013 19:15, schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi list! Whenever I do sequential IO for a

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.03.2013 21:48, schrieb Alecks Gates: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: [...] I use the ati-drivers package, and I'd say there are pretty solid now. I first started using ati-drivers with my HD2600 card card - as the kernel drivers did not

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:53:42 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 10.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Daniel Wagener: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver.

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Alecks Gates
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 10.03.2013 21:48, schrieb Alecks Gates: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: [...] I use the ati-drivers package, and I'd say there are pretty solid now. I first started

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/03/13 21:04, Daniel Wagener wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:49:02 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Mmmh. What sources do you use? In vanilla-sources-3.8.2, there is a r8169 driver: ./drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c config R8169 tristate Realtek 8169 gigabit

[gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/09/2013 01:41 PM, v_2e wrote: Hello! On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:46:04 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: BTW I just upgraded lo to 4.0.1.2 and no one has sent me any power-point files recently so I really don't know yet if they would play properly or not. Could you please check if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-10 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 03/09/2013 01:41 PM, v_2e wrote: Hello! On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:46:04 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: BTW I just upgraded lo to 4.0.1.2 and no one has sent me any power-point files recently so I really don't know yet if they would play properly or not. Could you

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2013 06:00 PM, Michael Mol wrote: It's been ages since I looked at that link and longer addresses would certainly be needed anyway but certainly with DNSSEC again concocted by costly unthoughtful and unengaging groups who chose to

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/10/2013 09:56 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 03/10/2013 06:00 PM, Michael Mol wrote: It's been ages since I looked at that link and longer addresses would certainly be needed anyway but certainly with DNSSEC again concocted by costly unthoughtful and unengaging groups who chose to

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 05:07:25PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote NAT behind a home router is bad, too. For IPv4, it's only necessary because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses to let everyone have a unique one. The best real reason for moving to IPV6 is address space (or lack thereof, in the

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/11/2013 12:00 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 05:07:25PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote NAT behind a home router is bad, too. For IPv4, it's only necessary because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses to let everyone have a unique one. The best real reason for moving to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} RAM apache MaxClients (rock a hard place)

2013-03-10 Thread Grant
You guys were so right. What an excellent http server/proxy. I used this very simple howto: http://kbeezie.com/apache-with-nginx/ I can probably dump a lot of apache config. I still need SSL on both servers even though only nginx faces the user? For imap proxy, nginx requires an HTTP