Re: [gentoo-user] KMail

2012-02-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: > I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After > spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the > upgrade and migration to work, I gave up and pinned KMail to version > 4.4.11.1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-10 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: > Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to > the following thread: > > http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM > > I added the layman overlays multilib an

[gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-10 Thread Grant
Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread wdk@moriah
Congestion isn't the only reason to use TCP and a VPN. 3G smartphone network (Optus in Oz) has a large number of duplicate and dropped packets - openvpn performance over TCP is much better. Similar case with a cheap French network while on holiday there. This was an extreme case though with n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/10/12 13:36, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > UDP is recommended, references[1] are easy to google. Why we're running > it over TCP I don't know. I must have had a good reason =) Oh my school blocks outgoing UDP. Running on TCP/443 allows me to connect from their network.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: > * Michael Mol [120210 13:36]: >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: >> > * Michael Mol [120210 12:51]: >> > [..] >> >> That's what I was talking about. Where I work, we use OpenVPN, >> >> operating in UDP mode. This is aft

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol [120210 13:36]: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: > > * Michael Mol [120210 12:51]: > > [..] > >> That's what I was talking about. Where I work, we use OpenVPN, > >> operating in UDP mode. This is after several bad experiences using it > >> in TCP mode. > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: > * Michael Mol [120210 12:51]: > [..] >> That's what I was talking about. Where I work, we use OpenVPN, >> operating in UDP mode. This is after several bad experiences using it >> in TCP mode. >> >> By "UDP mode" and "TCP mode", I mean OpenVPN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol [120210 12:51]: [..] > That's what I was talking about. Where I work, we use OpenVPN, > operating in UDP mode. This is after several bad experiences using it > in TCP mode. > > By "UDP mode" and "TCP mode", I mean OpenVPN's connections to other > OpenVPN nodes were in UDP or TCP, re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/10/12 13:05, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > No, no, no. What I meant was running TCP and UDP *on top of* OpenVPN > (which uses UDP). > > HAproxy seems to be able to perform its magic with TCP connections. > I was about to say that we use it over UDP, but... we don't. We have a small number of cl

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless newbee needs help

2012-02-10 Thread James Broadhead
On 9 February 2012 17:00, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > it's the first time I have to set up a wireless network on a notebook. Save yourself some hassle and use either wicd or NetworkManager - both wrap wpa_supplicant, and make for a much smoother mobile experience.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2012 12:42 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> > >> > On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> > >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 11, 2012 12:42 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: > >> > >> On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> > > >> > On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, "Mick" >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: SeAndroid build on a Gentoo System?

2012-02-10 Thread James
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen fu-berlin.de> writes: > If I get any further, I'll try to post some updates. Very cool! thanks for the feedback. James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: >> >> On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> > >> > On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, "Mick" > > > wrote: >> >> >> >> > > >> >> > > The need: a VPN client tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: > > On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, "Mick" > > wrote: > >> > >> > > > >> > > The need: a VPN client that: > >> > > + can selectively send packets fulfilling a criteria (i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: SeAndroid build on a Gentoo System?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 10, 2012 3:13 PM, "Hinnerk van Bruinehsen" < h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08.02.2012 16:23, James wrote: > > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen fu-berlin.de> writes: > > > > > >> I own a Galaxy Nexus - up to now I encountered a bug in fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, "Mick" > wrote: >> >> > > >> > > The need: a VPN client that: >> > > + can selectively send packets fulfilling a criteria (in this > case, dest= >> > > IP address of internal server)* >> >> As f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, "Mick" wrote: > > On Friday 10 Feb 2012 04:42:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:48, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an > > > internal server in the office. There are 2 incoming connections into

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an internal > server in the office. There are 2 incoming connections into my office, ISP > "A" and ISP "B". The primary connection is A, but if A goes down, we can use > B. The ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Mick
On Friday 10 Feb 2012 04:42:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:48, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an > > internal server in the office. There are 2 incoming connections into my > > office, ISP "A" and ISP "B". The primary co

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail

2012-02-10 Thread Mick
On Friday 10 Feb 2012 03:23:11 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 06:33:12PM -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After > > spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the > > upgrade and migra

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-10 Thread Carlos Hendson
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:31 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Many thanks, the workaround mentioned in this link fixes the segment > fault. > Still, audio doesn't work, yet. It seems mplayer doesn't have the codec required for the WMV format. You should check mplayer has the win32codecs use flag e

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/08/2012 03:04:50 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > > On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I need some advice. > > > > > > > > Sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: SeAndroid build on a Gentoo System?

2012-02-10 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.02.2012 16:23, James wrote: > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen fu-berlin.de> writes: > > >> I own a Galaxy Nexus - up to now I encountered a bug in finding >> the tools.jar of JDK (Google helped here) and a problem due to >> the fact that I use hardened