Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > tastytea wrote: >> On 2022-01-15 23:13-0600 Dale wrote: >> >>> tastytea wrote: On 2022-01-15 21:04-0600 Dale wrote: > Grant Taylor wrote: >> On 1/15/22 7:47 AM, tastytea wrote: >>> Did you know you can search with / and then jump to the results >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Dale
tastytea wrote: > On 2022-01-15 23:13-0600 Dale wrote: > >> tastytea wrote: >>> On 2022-01-15 21:04-0600 Dale wrote: >>> Grant Taylor wrote: > On 1/15/22 7:47 AM, tastytea wrote: >> Did you know you can search with / and then jump to the results >> with the number keys?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread tastytea
On 2022-01-15 23:13-0600 Dale wrote: > tastytea wrote: > > On 2022-01-15 21:04-0600 Dale wrote: > > > >> Grant Taylor wrote: > >>> On 1/15/22 7:47 AM, tastytea wrote: > Did you know you can search with / and then jump to the results > with the number keys? > >>> I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Dale
tastytea wrote: > On 2022-01-15 21:04-0600 Dale wrote: > >> Grant Taylor wrote: >>> On 1/15/22 7:47 AM, tastytea wrote: Did you know you can search with / and then jump to the results with the number keys? >>> I've been using the search for decades*.  But I didn't know about >>> the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread tastytea
On 2022-01-15 21:04-0600 Dale wrote: > Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/15/22 7:47 AM, tastytea wrote: > >> Did you know you can search with / and then jump to the results > >> with the number keys? > > > > I've been using the search for decades*.  But I didn't know about > > the number keys to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/1/22 00:06, Dale wrote: tastytea wrote: On 2022-01-15 22:38+0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Dear all, I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > On 1/15/22 7:47 AM, tastytea wrote: >> Did you know you can search with / and then jump to the results with >> the number keys? > > I've been using the search for decades*.  But I didn't know about the > number keys to jump until reading this message and trying it.  #TIL > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat 15 Jan 2022 23:38:18 GMT, Neil Bothwick wrote: > make oldconfig feeds you the new items, one at a time, complete with > access to the help information. Speaking of oldconfig, is there a way to only be asked when the default is to enable the option? If the default is “No” I never want to

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat 15 Jan 2022 11:53:58 GMT, tastytea wrote: > On 2022-01-15 10:33+ Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC > > 6762." > > > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local > > network? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:27:26 -0500, ny6p01 wrote: > I actually set aside an hour or two to go through the whole tree, paying > particular attention to everything marked NEW. I actually enjoy seeing > what new functionality has been added with each upgrade even if it is > irrelevant to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread ny6p01
Lee  On Jan 15, 2022 at 3:01 PM, Fabulous Zhang Zheng wrote: Andrew Lowe 于2022年1月15日 周六下午10:39写道: > Dear all, > I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my > kernel. > This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" > builds. It is very frustrating.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Fabulous Zhang Zheng
Andrew Lowe 于2022年1月15日 周六下午10:39写道: > Dear all, > I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my > kernel. > This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" > builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know why stuff is not in > alphabetical order? It's a

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 2:54 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > RFC 6762 does not preclude the use of the local top level domain > in traditional unicast DNS. Of course it doesn't. You can also go ahead and use some of Amazon's AWS IP space to number your home network too if you want. Just don't be

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 2:35 PM Raphael Mejias Dias wrote: >> >> You might want to look into whether it solves your problems >> out-of-the-box without the need to run internal DNS. The latter still >> has certain advantages, but mDNS obviously benefits from simplicity. >> >> > This solution,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/15/22 7:47 AM, tastytea wrote: Did you know you can search with / and then jump to the results with the number keys? I've been using the search for decades*. But I didn't know about the number keys to jump until reading this message and trying it. #TIL *Yes, I've been using Linux for

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/15/22 3:33 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Hi. Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." Ya I've read RFC 6762 in the past and I just skimmed part of it again. I didn't find anything that prohibited the use of the local top level domain for

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Raphael Mejias Dias
> > On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 5:57 AM William Kenworthy > wrote: > > > > On 15/1/22 18:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." > > > > > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local >

Re: [gentoo-user] BIND Configuration for DNS

2022-01-15 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/14/22 8:45 AM, Raphael Mejias Dias wrote: Hello, Hi, I'm trying to configure BIND for a local DNS server, but I'm not sure that it's ok. Based on your other comments, it seems as if there is more of a question about overall DNS configuration and operation than about the BIND DNS

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Dale
tastytea wrote: > On 2022-01-15 22:38+0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: > >> Dear all, >> I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my >> kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make >> menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know why >> stuff is not in

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Bhaskar Chowdhury
On 22:38 Sat 15 Jan 2022, Andrew Lowe wrote: Dear all, I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know why stuff is not in alphabetical order? It's a pain

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 15/1/22 10:47 pm, tastytea wrote: On 2022-01-15 22:38+0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Dear all, I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know why stuff is

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread tastytea
On 2022-01-15 22:38+0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: > Dear all, > I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my > kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make > menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know why > stuff is not in alphabetical order? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Sat, 2022-01-15 at 22:38 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Dear all, > I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. > This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" > builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know why stuff is not in > alphabetical

[gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
Dear all, I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know why stuff is not in alphabetical order? It's a pain in the clacka trying to find some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 5:57 AM William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 15/1/22 18:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." > > > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local > > network? > > It

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Matthias Hanft
tastytea wrote: > > Another solution would be to register an inexpensive domain name and use > that.  That's generally a good idea. After using .local for many years, too, I have switched to my "official" domain and added "local" for the internal IP addresses. So my server down in the basement

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 15/1/22 18:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local network? It used to be .prhnet, but then a program I tried a few years ago insisted on a

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread tastytea
On 2022-01-15 10:33+ Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC > 6762." > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local > network? It used to be .prhnet, but then a program I tried a few > years ago

[gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local network? It used to be .prhnet, but then a program I tried a few years ago insisted on a two-component name, so I changed it to