Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 02:54 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 2:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Were this one of my systems (none of which is in a prod scenario, so take it with a grain of salt), I'd emerge -e --keep-going @system, and then emerge --resume a few times. You're stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-14 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/14/2013 01:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 14, 2013 1:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] What I meant was: given 4 physical AMD cores (but only 2 FPUs, courtesy of AMD's Bulldozer/Piledriver arch) vs 4 virtual Intel cores (2 cores split

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-14 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/14/2013 04:32 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 14, 2013 1:27 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/14/2013 01:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 14, 2013 1:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/13/2013 01:45 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: [snip] Three, AMD has no concept of Hyperthreading. Correct. Just match -j to the number of cores your CPU provides, and that's it. Well, YMMV. You can spend a lot of time adjusting -j on a per-system basis to account for things like I/O. Right

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/13/2013 01:50 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 07:03:26AM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! My old core2duo machine says slowly goodbye and I am at this lever after 7 years for buying myself a new developer machine, that should serve me well for a long time

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/13/2013 05:49 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 02:44:20PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I'm currently holding out on my Core2 though, because Haswell is on the doorstep, and I first wanna see what the market has to offer. The CPU part might not gain much in performance

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/09/2013 06:02 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-08 3:56 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: Since Gentoo now recommends GrUB rather by default, it might be nice for folks to know how to use this. ? So the handbook used to recommend LILO? I installed my first gentoo box

[gentoo-user] About to embark on x32

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Mol
So I'm about to try setting up the x32 arch in a VM. I notice there's no handbook for it, though there is for amd64 and x86. I'm considering x32 for its lighter memory footprint... Does anyone know of any notable differences between the setup process for amd64 and x32, or should I expect things

[gentoo-user] Re: About to embark on x32

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/09/2013 09:46 PM, Michael Mol wrote: So I'm about to try setting up the x32 arch in a VM. I notice there's no handbook for it, though there is for amd64 and x86. I'm considering x32 for its lighter memory footprint... Does anyone know of any notable differences between the setup

[gentoo-user] Pidgin, gtalk and jingle

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Mol
So, I'm trying to verify whether or not Pidgin can talk to Google Voice on my laptop. When searching around for instructions, I get the impression that this is supposed to just work, and I don't see much in the way of people actually having difficulty with it. In my case, if someone calls me, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/08/2013 11:04 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 03:09:43PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:25:50AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-05 4:11 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:38:21PM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Pidgin, gtalk and jingle

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/08/2013 11:39 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Apr 8, 2013 9:07 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 08.04.2013 17:20, schrieb Michael Mol: So, I'm trying to verify whether or not Pidgin can talk to Google Voice on my laptop. When searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/08/2013 12:04 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:31:43PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:16:45 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: If /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules is an empty file or a symlink to /dev/null, The first can obviously be taken quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/08/2013 12:28 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:58:38PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:35:22 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: As for /sbin/ip. I have no such command. I'd recommend installing and becoming familiar with the iproute2 package. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/07/2013 10:01 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Manually bringing up eth0 using ifconfig got me up and running. It's quite shaky though. net.eth0 does not work any more and of course neither does sshd or any other service that requires net.eth*. Thanks Michael. If they're supposed to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Mol
Are you using 802.1x or wireless on that machine? If not, I can't think of a reason you'd need it, outside of it being a hard dependency of some other package. On 04/07/2013 10:22 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Installing wpa_supplicant got the network scripts working again. Not sure why. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/06/2013 08:53 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: I took a closer look at /etc/udev/70-something-rules-net and /sys/class/net/eth0/ and all the ATTR (i.e., address, type, dev_id) line up fine. I did not find a name file in /sys/class/net/eth0 however, name=eth0 in etc/udev/70-something-rules-net.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Michael Mol
2: sit0 inte6 ff02::1 3: eth0 link 33:33:00:00:00:01 inet6 ff02:1 4: eth1 link 33:33:00:00:00:01 inet6 ff02:1 Too much inte6 for my liking... Did I somehow get rid of ipv4? N. On 4/6/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/06/2013 08:53 PM, Nick Khamis wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Michael Mol
. I have no such command. N. On 4/6/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: /sbin/ip, not /etc/ip Those inet6 addresses beginning with ff02 are link-local addresses. Those are automatically configured on a link simply by the link being up. Something is failing to configure your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Michael Mol
/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is_wireless: command not found /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 548: _exists: command not found Sorry I can't paste stuff directly. I am literally taking phone pics and communicating through my laptop. N. On 4/6/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: It's probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/06/2013 11:19 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Michael, Is it because you disabled udev's renaming entirely via the kernel command-line parameter? Because you've done some magic in /etc/udev/rules.d/? I did not change 70-something contents. I deleted it and let udev regenerate it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/06/2013 11:06 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-04-06, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Ahhh... I think now I understand... So. Here's my summarization of the situation: * The ethX naming can change, i.e., the interfaces can get out of order * So, to fix this, udev decided to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-04 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-04-03, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 03 Apr 2013 20:46:37 Bruce Hill wrote: Therefore, all's well that's still working! And AFAIR, on at least 2 of those machines, the 70-persistent-net.rules was never something I did

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/01/2013 09:12 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:57:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based identification? I mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address identity, the system name is just a label... MAC addresses are not

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/01/2013 09:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:29:08 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you could still type eth0. Frankly, I never found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/01/2013 03:26 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 01:44:18PM -0500, Dale wrote: Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On 2013-03-31, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On 2013-03-31, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Since it's

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/31/2013 03:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: instead of pushing a completely different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default. Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically changing the pci

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/31/2013 07:12 PM, walt wrote: Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it solid stuff? http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet Can't tell one way or another.

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/31/2013 10:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 130331 walt wrote: Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this ? http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet There was a good story in 'Guardian' :

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-29 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/29/2013 09:27 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/03/2013 10:53, Norman Rieß wrote: That is just evil. Have you no alternative to this ISP? -- Peter Like free and open DNS servers? ;-) Like the one i am talking about and was told it was unnessesary crap? When you describe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is 'MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5' silly?

2013-03-29 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/29/2013 01:46 PM, Dale wrote: »Q« wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:54:37 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 29 March 2013, at 03:36, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: ... I can only imagine he was pointing out that you have a single CPU with four cores in it. You're right,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-29 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/29/2013 07:01 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: On 30/03/13 06:34, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 28 March 2013 20:53:49 Paul Hartman wrote: In my case, my ISP's DNS servers are slow (several seconds to reply),

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/28/2013 03:51 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 28, 2013 07:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/03/2013 04:56, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/27/2013 05:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/03/2013 22:41, Michael Mol wrote: The case for systemd is twofold: ... 2) Reduce the amount of CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/28/2013 12:28 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-03-27, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: The case for systemd is twofold: 1) Boot-to-desktop session management by one tool. Ah, the old universal generic tool approach. I've seen a lot of money and time poured into black-hole

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/28/2013 10:35 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/03/2013 15:16, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/28/2013 03:51 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 28, 2013 07:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/03/2013 04:56, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/27/2013 05:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/03/2013 22:41

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/28/2013 04:51 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, i am using pdns recursor to provide a dns server which should be usable for everybody.The problem is, that the server seems to be used in dns amplification attacks. I googled around on how to prevent this but did not really find something

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/28/2013 12:06 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mar 28, 2013 10:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/28/2013 04:51 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, i am using pdns recursor to provide a dns server which should be usable for everybody.The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/28/2013 03:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/03/2013 17:38, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/28/2013 04:51 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, i am using pdns recursor to provide a dns server which should be usable for everybody.The problem is, that the server seems to be used in dns amplification

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/28/2013 04:53 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Or just use the ISP's DNS caches. In the vast majority of cases, the ISP knows how to do it right and the user does not. Generally true, though I've known people to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/28/2013 04:57 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: listened to the dangers and even now simply redesigned DNSSEC. Or they could fudge it by making every request requiring padding larger than the response. Bandwidth would increase astronomically but amp attacks would have to find other avenues.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/27/2013 10:25 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok... So, what is this all about? Does all of this mean that udev is now going *completely* away, *totally* replaced by systemd? If so, has there been any kind of formal announcement about this *anywhere*?? Hold your horses. The devs will work

Re: [gentoo-user] udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/27/2013 10:33 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/27/2013 10:25 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok... So, what is this all about? Does all of this mean that udev is now going *completely* away, *totally* replaced by systemd? If so, has there been any kind of formal announcement about this *anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/27/2013 01:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Jake Margason jmargason...@gmail.com wrote: I ran away from Arch last year to get away from all this systemd stuff. I hope that you guys will continue to support openrc for as long as possible. Don't do top

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/27/2013 04:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-03-27, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The real drive behind systemd is enterprise cloud type computing for Red Hat. The rest is snake oil and much of the features already exist without systemd. With more snake oil of promises

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/27/2013 05:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/03/2013 22:41, Michael Mol wrote: The case for systemd is twofold: ... 2) Reduce the amount of CPU and RAM consumed when you're talking about booting tens of thousands of instances simultaneously across your entire infrastructure

Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/26/2013 01:54 PM, Stroller wrote: Searching portage, I find there are quite a number of alternative whois clients. I think I have always used net-misc/whois in the past I now notice that a BSD whois is available, a generic and an advanced jwhois. Presumably there are some

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/20/2013 04:47 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 20.03.2013 03:58, schrieb Michael Mol: Does anybody know of time lock flash drives? The scenario I'm looking at is to have a drive that's only accessible for a certain amount of time after being powered on. It would hold crypto keys

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: parental control software

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/20/2013 07:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm looking for software that can be used to control a child's usage of the computer (not Internet filtering). At the very least it should be able to control length of login sessions and when the child is able to login. Ideally it would also be able

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-19 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/19/2013 05:09 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: If you're going to call me out for ignoring things, missing things or simply not knowing things, please highlight what it is. the quote isn't very enlightening in this context. You have a nasty habit of referencing things without inlining them or

[gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick

2013-03-19 Thread Michael Mol
Does anybody know of time lock flash drives? The scenario I'm looking at is to have a drive that's only accessible for a certain amount of time after being powered on. It would hold crypto keys in a server context. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick

2013-03-19 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/19/2013 11:18 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: On 20/03/13 10:58, Michael Mol wrote: Does anybody know of time lock flash drives? The scenario I'm looking at is to have a drive that's only accessible for a certain amount of time after being powered on. It would hold crypto keys in a server

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick

2013-03-19 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/20/2013 12:23 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 03/19/2013 11:28 PM, Michael Mol wrote: Not so much. The idea would be that you could power cycle the device to get access to it again. The device would be read for the keys at system bootup, but then would shut itself off after a few

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/18/2013 04:38 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Wait, K9 Mail doesn't have a plain text option? Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, as I am also unable to comprehend why K9 might enforce top-posting on replies. K9 Mail can do both plain text and bottom posting. Both set in Account

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/18/2013 04:21 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On 15 March 2013, at 17:32, Kevin Chadwick wrote: If you use the Gentoo hardened Tinfoil Linux you will need lots of ram and wait ages to boot but firefox will just pop up. I'm sorry, I don't understand this statement. Could you possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/18/2013 05:38 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: It's one of Blueness projects based on Hardened Gentoo. It loads into ram at boot (you need something like 4 gig of ram) which takes ages from dvd but could be from an ssd/hdd (defeating half the point without a ro switch though). It can update

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/18/2013 08:15 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:38:11 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: K9 Mail can do both plain text and bottom posting. Both set in Account settings/Sending mail. It can write but forces html onto users, which potentially includes

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/18/2013 08:05 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:16:52 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/18/2013 04:38 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: It can write but forces html onto users, You seem to miss some of the details. About that. See the attachment. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/18/2013 08:10 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:28:04 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Even though it is from a DVD it can be updated just like standard linux. The problem is, if you run out of ram then things get killed. (Frankly, this sounds quite nice

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML editor WYSIWYG

2013-03-16 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/16/2013 11:00 PM, Joseph wrote: Any recommendation for HTML editor Graphical. I've tried to use Open Office but it not user friendly. I used Bluefish...around a decade ago. But it's in Portage. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML editor WYSIWYG

2013-03-16 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/16/2013 11:39 PM, Joseph wrote: On 03/16/13 23:10, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:00 PM, Joseph wrote: Any recommendation for HTML editor Graphical. I've tried to use Open Office but it not user friendly. I used Bluefish...around a decade ago. But it's in Portage. Not user

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/15/2013 04:34 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On 03/16/2013 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: On Friday 15 Mar 2013 17:36:48 Kevin Chadwick wrote: From the headers of his email: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros References: 51418728.7020...@gmail.com In-Reply-To:

Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/14/2013 11:17 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:29:54PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: html head meta content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type /head body bgcolor=#FF text=#00 div class=moz-cite-prefixOn 03/14/2013 04:15

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

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/11/2013 06:45 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:22:39AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote You are being over-simplistic. Lack of IPv4 address space *caused* NAT to happen, the two are inextricably intertwined. Agreed. But we shouldn't be pointing out that NAT has

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

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/11/2013 06:34 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: 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

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

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/11/2013 07:09 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: No, there was simply no useful result that came up. Incidentally, both links you provide *did* come up...but I dismissed them because I couldn't imagine anyone using them as a reference except in trying to deride Henning Brauer.

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: [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: [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

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

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

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

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/08/2013 03:32 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 08/03/2013 02:29, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/07/2013 05:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Anyone know if there's a way to get /etc/hosts to support the notion of an include file? I did my homework and found nothing, maybe someone else knows more. I

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

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/08/2013 02:50 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: 1. The craziness of trying to conserve IPv4 space 2. NAT. Finally, a good solid techical reason to make NAT just go away and stay away. Permanently. Forever. It's a great shame that isn't all it fixed (ipv5), then your job wouldn't have been so

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

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/08/2013 07:45 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: What would have been best, could have been done years ago and not cost lots of money and even more in security breaches and what I meant by ipv5 and would still be better to switch to even today with everyone being happy to switch to it is simply

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

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/08/2013 07:50 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Unfortunately, your logic is flawed. Where would you put the additional bits of address? That would involve rewriting the IP Header. Your assumption that I do not know that is flawed. I did a review of ipv6 before it was released and

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

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/07/2013 10:49 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 06.03.2013 22:30, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 06/03/2013 23:22, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/06/2013 04:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/03/2013 22:59, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/06/2013 03:54 PM, Grant wrote: I lowered my MaxClients setting

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

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/07/2013 03:45 PM, Grant wrote: I lowered my MaxClients setting in apache a long time ago after running out of memory a couple times. I recently optimized my website's code and sped the site way up, and now I find myself periodically up against MaxClients. Is a RAM upgrade the only

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

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/07/2013 04:34 PM, Grant wrote: Michael's proxy suggestion is excellent too - I use nginx for this a lot. It's amazingly easy to set up, a complete breath of fresh air after the gigantic do-all beast that is apache. Performance depends a lot on what your sites actually do, if every page

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

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/07/2013 04:44 PM, Grant wrote: Thanks Michael, I think I will set up nginx to serve my images. That should take a big load off apache. Is nginx still beneficial when using the Worker MPM? It...depends? nginx in reverse caching proxy mode will simply serve up objects before the

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

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Mar 7, 2013 5:28 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know if there's a way to get /etc/hosts to support the notion of an include file? I did my homework and found nothing, maybe someone else knows more. I really do need this, I have an app that discovers things on the

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

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/07/2013 05:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Anyone know if there's a way to get /etc/hosts to support the notion of an include file? I did my homework and found nothing, maybe someone else knows more. I really do need this, I have an app that discovers things on the network and knows their

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

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/06/2013 03:54 PM, Grant wrote: I lowered my MaxClients setting in apache a long time ago after running out of memory a couple times. I recently optimized my website's code and sped the site way up, and now I find myself periodically up against MaxClients. Is a RAM upgrade the only

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

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/06/2013 04:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/03/2013 22:59, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/06/2013 03:54 PM, Grant wrote: I lowered my MaxClients setting in apache a long time ago after running out of memory a couple times. I recently optimized my website's code and sped the site way up

Re: [gentoo-user] Programm for Floor Plans

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/04/2013 10:23 PM, Francisco Ares wrote: 2013/3/4 Andrew Lowe 2505...@curtin.edu.au mailto:2505...@curtin.edu.au On 5/03/2013 8:52 AM, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de mailto:siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing static IP remotely...

2013-02-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 02/27/2013 11:48 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo users, what is the proper way of changing static IP-address remotely without the need to restart the whole system (or locking me out)? I have one interface with static IP, so first I'm going to edit /etc/conf.d/net. Then I will set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing static IP remotely...

2013-02-28 Thread Michael Mol
On 02/28/2013 05:43 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.02.2013 16:37, schrieb Mike Gilbert: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/27/2013 11:48 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo users, what is the proper way of changing static IP-address remotely without

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Authenticating in a wireless home network

2013-02-25 Thread Michael Mol
On 02/25/2013 01:56 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 25 Feb 2013 03:00:56 Michael Mol wrote: [snip] Of course you could start covering the inside of your walls with aluminium foil My house has plaster-and-lathe walls and aluminum siding. Frankly, it works out to about the same thing. . [snip

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Authenticating in a wireless home network

2013-02-24 Thread Michael Mol
On 02/24/2013 09:49 PM, walt wrote: I've been connecting my google nexus 7 tablet to my wireless router using the standard ssid/password method until last week, when I found that my router will allow wireless connections based on the tablet's MAC address. What I don't know is whether the

Re: [gentoo-user] traceroute not working

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Mol
On 02/22/2013 10:51 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Weird, I don't use it much, but needed to run a traceroute today, and it is failing with: # traceroute 192.168.1.4 traceroute to 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.4), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets send: Operation not permitted I know the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] firehol + gentoo 3.6.11 kernel....

2013-02-19 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/2013 11:12 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 19, 2013 9:10 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2013 8:35 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com mailto:th9...@googlemail.com wrote: hi people! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre break after Update

2013-02-19 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/2013 06:43 PM, ckard wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, i run the update from calibre yesterday and now calibre not startet. Has someone the same and has fix?

Re: [gentoo-user] firehol + gentoo 3.6.11 kernel....

2013-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Feb 18, 2013 8:35 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: hi people! I have used all the time firehol (gentoo sources 3.3.8) to make my firewall rules. After kernel 3.4.x I can't make use of it any more. Has anyone of you got firehol running on a genoo system with a 3.4.x kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LWP::UserAgent slows website

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/2013 12:05 AM, Grant wrote: The responses all come back successfully within a few seconds. Can you give me a really general description of the sort of problem that could behave like this? Your server is just a single computer, running

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LWP::UserAgent slows website

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/2013 08:53 PM, Stroller wrote: On 10 February 2013, at 05:05, Grant wrote: ... Your server is just a single computer, running multiple processes. Each request from a user (be it you or someone else) requires a certain amount of

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LWP::UserAgent slows website

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/2013 06:07 PM, Stroller wrote: On 11 February 2013, at 17:43, Michael Mol wrote: ... If so, I don't understand why apache2 seems to bog down a bit for about 10 minutes afterward. Now that's a new (and important!) piece of information

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LWP::UserAgent slows website

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/2013 08:05 PM, Stroller wrote: On 12 February 2013, at 00:04, Michael Mol wrote: I am sorry if I have caused you offence on any other occasion - if so, please feel free to explain why. Primarily, what bothers me is your typically

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

2013-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Feb 10, 2013 3:29 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 10.02.2013 06:11, schrieb Grant: I received the following ELOG message after an emerge: * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

2013-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/02/2013 13:49, Michael Mol wrote: On Feb 10, 2013 3:29 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 10.02.2013 06:11, schrieb Grant: I received the following ELOG message after an emerge: * One

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LWP::UserAgent slows website

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/2013 05:36 AM, Adam Carter wrote: There are several things you can do to improve the state of things. The first and foremost is to add caching in front of the server, using an accelerator proxy. (i.e. squid running in accelerator mode.)

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LWP::UserAgent slows website

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Feb 9, 2013 9:26 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, so long as Apache doesn't have any additional modules loaded. If it's got something like mod_php loaded (extraordinarily common), mod_perl or mod_python (less common, now) then the init time of mod_php gets added to the

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