Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 04/05/2018 03:51 AM, gevisz wrote: Yes, the Host is running Windows. Seeing as how both the ""Host and the ""Client are running Windows, I would think seriously about trying to leverage Windows' built in VPN capabilities. The following things come to mind: - (raw) IPSec - this might

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 04/05/2018 08:51 AM, gevisz wrote: It is strange because just today I have learned that VPN server should be set on the host with static IP visible the in Internet. Otherwise a VPN-client has no way to connect to the VPN-server. The static IP is not a strict requirement. It just greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 05/04/18 22:51, gevisz wrote: > 2018-04-05 16:14 GMT+03:00 Bill Kenworthy : >> On 05/04/18 18:28, gevisz wrote: >>> 2018-04-05 12:51 GMT+03:00 gevisz : 2018-04-05 1:02 GMT+03:00 Grant Taylor : On 04/04/2018 02:18

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread gevisz
2018-04-05 19:29 GMT+03:00 Grant Taylor : > On 04/05/2018 03:51 AM, gevisz wrote: >> >> Yes. And the Client also has static IP. Moreover, both OR and IR have >> static IPs from the inside. So, the Host can make a connection request to >> the Client. > > With the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/04/18 18:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote: >> > On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> > > Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence >>> > > on >>> > > a comma before the "and" before the last item in a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/04/18 18:53, Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:12:06 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote: > >>> But again this comes down to another moan of mine - why is "The Queen's >>> English" considered "correct", while let's say Yorkshire

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 05/04/18 17:54, Rich Freeman wrote: >> I >> haven't checked recently but the last time I looked at it even my >> current Ryzen CPU doesn't have a microcode fix out yet for lfence. > > Is lfence a meltdown problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/04/18 17:54, Rich Freeman wrote: > I > haven't checked recently but the last time I looked at it even my > current Ryzen CPU doesn't have a microcode fix out yet for lfence. Is lfence a meltdown problem? Because afaik Ryzen doesn't need a fix for meltdown, it's not vulnerable. As for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:12:06 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote: > > But again this comes down to another moan of mine - why is "The Queen's > > English" considered "correct", while let's say Yorkshire Dialect is > > considered "wrong", when

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote: > On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence on > > a comma before the "and" before the last item in a list, even though it > > gets in the way and introduces

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Mick wrote: > > Does the lack of a microcode patch mean the in-kernel and other software fixes > won't be sufficient to protect PCs running these old CPUs? I'm interested if somebody has a more informed answer, but my guess is that it

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 10:20:59 BST Adam Carter wrote: > https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-upd > ate-guidance.pdf > > From > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/intel_spectre_microcode_updates/ > > "The new guidance >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 04/05/2018 03:51 AM, gevisz wrote: Yes. And the Client also has static IP. Moreover, both OR and IR have static IPs from the inside. So, the Host can make a connection request to the Client. With the client having a static IP, things become a LOT simpler. Simply flip things around and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread gevisz
2018-04-05 16:14 GMT+03:00 Bill Kenworthy : > On 05/04/18 18:28, gevisz wrote: >> 2018-04-05 12:51 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >>> 2018-04-05 1:02 GMT+03:00 Grant Taylor : >>> On 04/04/2018 02:18 PM, gevisz wrote: Assuming that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread gevisz
2018-04-05 14:51 GMT+03:00 Mick : > > Your double NAT-ing arrangement hides the host twice over from the Internet. > In addition, some of the domestic ISP providers also offer NAT'ed connections > for their users. Our outer router with static IP is actually the router

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 05/04/18 18:28, gevisz wrote: > 2018-04-05 12:51 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >> 2018-04-05 1:02 GMT+03:00 Grant Taylor : >> On 04/04/2018 02:18 PM, gevisz wrote: >>> Assuming that NAT is in play on OR and IR (worst case), then just about >>> /any/

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Wol's lists
On 05/04/18 12:23, Mick wrote: On Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:57:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote: On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote: 180402 Dale wrote: After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not one. Something

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 11:28:07 BST gevisz wrote: > A small correction after a call to the friend: the VPN server should > be installed > on the Client and the VPN client should be installed on the Host. > > Becaule of the same reason it is impossible to set up VPN server on the IR. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Wol's lists
On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence on a comma before the "and" before the last item in a list, even though it gets in the way and introduces ambiguity - the infamous Oxford comma. But that's a whole new can of worms.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:57:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote: > > On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote: > > > 180402 Dale wrote: > > >> After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not > > >> one. > > >> Something I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread gevisz
2018-04-05 12:51 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2018-04-05 1:02 GMT+03:00 Grant Taylor : > On 04/04/2018 02:18 PM, gevisz wrote: >> Assuming that NAT is in play on OR and IR (worst case), then just about >> /any/ form of VPN initiating from the outside

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread gevisz
2018-04-05 2:03 GMT+03:00 Mick : > On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:02:20 BST Grant Taylor wrote: >> On 04/04/2018 02:18 PM, gevisz wrote: >> > A friend of mine asked me to recommend him an open-source VPN-server >> > for Linux but unfortunately I never used one. >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread gevisz
2018-04-05 1:02 GMT+03:00 Grant Taylor : > On 04/04/2018 02:18 PM, gevisz wrote: >> >> A friend of mine asked me to recommend him an open-source VPN-server for >> Linux but unfortunately I never used one. > > That's a loaded ask. I just tried to point to the

[gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Adam Carter
https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-update-guidance.pdf From https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/intel_spectre_microcode_updates/ "The new guidance , issued

[gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote: > On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote: > > 180402 Dale wrote: > >> After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not one. > >> Something I was taught years ago somewhere and still do. > >> I only put one after a comma

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-04-04 19:12, Wol's lists wrote: > Different horses, different courses. I believe the indent was dropped > to save a keystroke, so why the double-space is there (requiring an > extra keystroke) I don't know. > > And why use secretarial style when you're typesetting? One is for > letters,

Re: [gentoo-user] Error with infinality font while emerging sane-backends

2018-04-05 Thread Danny YUE
On 2018-03-28 14:55, Floyd Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:58:21 +0800 > Danny YUE wrote: >> >> >>Thanks for your quick reply :-) >> >>I created the symbolic link as you told, > > That solves the: > > Fontconfig error: failed reading config