Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
The values of ../by-uuid/ would probably be equally good, but I don't know how to find them any more than I know how to find the serials... I use my own automounter scripts and udev with nice static mountpoints from when udisks threw lots away for a while in favour of multiseat. A recurring

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address

2012-12-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I can send you the source code if you want. Likewise to any other interested reader Send to me please, Thanks -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I don't think that's right. I have a Pandaboard ES with a dual-core 1.2Ghz CPU and 1GB RAM and I bet it would run Gnome just fine. Again, maybe you're referring to something here that I'm not familiar with. I think the key word was micro, but is that off topic (ignoring subject)? Many (such

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dedicated server or cloud server?

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Doesn't a good cloud server also have potentially higher availability compared to dedicated? Perhaps at your price point through redundancy which could be applied to dedicated all be it at higher cost and so potentially still more reliable and certainly more secure and also tested in almost any

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:53:35 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the other question that's lurking here for me is why do you have /usr on a separate partition? What's the usage model that drives a person to do that? The most I've ever done is move /usr/portage and /usr/src

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:18:25 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: It should be moving in the other direction for stability reasons and busybox is no full answer. On OpenBSD which has the benefit of userland being part of it. All the critical single user binaries

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:32:24 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: My thanks, too! There's nothing like reading on some actual experience with this. So this was once the reason to keep / separate. Not that important anymore (but this is still no excuse to force people to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
So, since I have /usr separate from the rest, I could mount it read only and reduce the chance of corruption if say my UPS failed? I already do this for /boot. Interesting. Very interesting indeed. If the other issues happen, computers is likely the least of our problems. ;-) Or if

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Thankfully, I've never had to maintain systems whose disks were small and low performing enough that it actually mattered to separate / from /usr. So you don't understand it much at all. Actually many of lennarts pages such as his security.html are full of wildly incorrect claims and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Surely not libs, those go in /usr/lib or /lib. If it's variable data somehow related to libs then someone needs to look up lib in a dictionary. I have to say I was shocked a while back when I found /usr/bin/firefox linking to a shell script at /usr/lib/firefox/firefox I'd be interested if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
really? once upon a time I was told mounting / ro and /usr rw was a GOOD THING to do. I ignored that the same way I ignore it the other way round. With bind mounting and stuff, you can make single directories rw.. so what is the matter? Ignorance is bliss, so good for you. Only as root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: with redhat's push to move everything into /usr - why not stop right there and move everything back into /? I originally thought this way, but they actually reviewed the technical and historical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:46:33 +0800 Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: A concensus would be good. A right consensus is more likely to get a consensus. This has no bearing on the matters at hand. /usr as the default prefix for installed packages is the consensus of the vast

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:09:50 + Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I certainly don't expect linux to solve these management problems, quite the opposite in fact but I can hope. I hope mentioning OpenBSD won't put anyone off but taking a leap out of their book I feel could really

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
It was in fact a weirdo corner case since day 1. Right, a weirdo corner case that is part of best practice and the default suggestion on debian stable used on many many servers and for good reason. -- ___ 'Write programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Are there any other cases, apart from emotional attachment based on inertia, where a separate / and /usr are desirable? As I see it, there is only the system, and it is an atomic unit. You should really read the thread before posting. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
You are only considering the case of /usr being on a plain hard disk partition, what if it in on an LVM volume, or encrypted (or both) of mounted over the network? All of these require something to be run before they can be mounted, and if that cannot be run until udev has started, we

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:01:13 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: To the OP of this OT sub-thread. The main difference for me is OpenRC removes some of the symlink mess and uncertainty compared to for example debians init. I very much like OpenRC but my fav is still OpenBSD that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:09:49 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Not all the proposed changes are bad ... a read only /usr would be nice, but I object to being forced into what I regard as an unreliable configuration (or use unreliable, crappy software, eg pulse audio!) because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:56:38 -0500 Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: It would still be a (notable, at that) drop in size if the shell script was redone to provide exactly the same set of features, then compared, but that size difference wouldn't have the same shock value as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:01:58 +0800 Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody's telling you _your_ system, as in the collection of programs you use for your productivity, is broken. What we're saying is that _the_ system, as in the general practice as compared to the specification, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:01:17 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And, what community is being divided? Fedora,OpenSuse, and Arch use systemd by default. From debian and hurd to slackware which will not touch systemd ever and ubuntu and also embedded with the kernel working on

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Again you don't break the spec unless you have to and you don't change the spec unless it is an improvement or you have no choice. Non of which is the case. Just like you do not mould a mail RFC to a widely used technically inferior hotmail implementation. He's like DJB on crack. Except DJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
* Finally, and what I think is the most fundamental difference between systemd and almost any other init system: The service unit files in systemd are *declarative*; you tell the daemon *what* to do, not *how* to do it. If the service files are shell scripts (like in OpenRC/SysV), everything

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Should perl be in / or /usr? Now that is a good question, if only because Perl traditionally _loathes_ being in /bin, for its own philosophical reasons. Now, as a practical matter? WTF are the scripts written in Perl? Or in anything other than sh? If they're intended for emergency

Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

2012-12-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:16:34 +0800 Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: whatever filesystem type it is. Following this, for any distro to correctly FHS, there needs to be a package manager switch to copy arbitrary packages (and dependent libraries) from /usr to /. As of yet not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:38:15 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: In SysV, I can *write* the daemon in the init script. In *that* sense, the init system tells the daemon how to do things, Please explain, sure there is the environment that tells a daemon what to do. No shell can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:14:46 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:38:15 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: In SysV, I can *write* the daemon in the init

Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

2012-12-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
The latest FHS dates from 2004, the same year as the *earliest* FUSE release I can see on the FUSE web site. I'd say a good working hypothesis is that FHS was simply written *before* any user-space file systems were more than an experimental oddity. IF the system's /home directory

Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

2012-12-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:19:44 +0800 Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: I'd certainly be happy fixing FHS to say that tools for mounting and recovering essential system partitions be located in /, and that these essential system partitions contain the tools for mounting and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:06:00 +0800 kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: That already has a de-facto answer; USE=suid must be on by default as without it users cannot run a desktop (xorg-server does not yet run without root permissions) I use some hackery to run startx on some systems as a normal user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:35:52 -0200 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: If my colleagues would at least be kind enough to have OpenOffice installed on their machines also... Will they let you boot a usb?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:16:25 -0200 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think so. Most of them are very basic level users, and they just have to have the same software, and it's gotta be from M$ - nothing out of main stream. But what is your point? Boot an OS with office that

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:09:27 +0100 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Thanks for your thoughts Alan. I didn't like Claws much last time I tried it, but then that was some time ago. Does anyone recommend a mail client that doesn't rely too heavily on the mouse? I much prefer to

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:24:13 + I wrote: it's very few tabs If tabs are the irritation to scroll open mail, try three column view to reduce the likelihood or small screen view which only needs arrows enter and escape.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and ssl

2013-01-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 12:18:45 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 04 Jan 2013 12:45:01 Robert David wrote: Hi all, anyone have problem with firefox and selfsigned ssl? I tryed firefox and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:52:29 -0600 Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: You'll probably want to do this in single user mode (i.e. `rc single`), so running programs don't crash suddenly. A reboot afterward is probably a good idea as well. I'm interested in what may crash, do you mean

Re: [Bulk] RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2013-01-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 18:22:37 -0500 Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: I have never personally run into any case where I had a single /+/usr and regretted it, but I *have* encountered situations where I could not get /usr mounted and ended up merging it with /. FWIW, YMMV, etc. And why

Re: [gentoo-user] Processes hang - system dies

2013-01-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
** I have a very severe problem after a recent disk replacement. After a few days running, all new processes just hang. The kernel reports: My guess is disk failing or kernel bug. Install smartmontools and see if smartctl -H devicename returns anything interesting.

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging

2013-01-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:46:29 +0700 Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: Thanks for the tips, now I can get more output to tty1 if I want. I still can't get any systemd messages to syslog-ng, however. A bit of a mystery. This may be way off as I expect systemd to never shape up to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gigabyte wont boot

2013-01-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If all else fails, maybe it is dead. Yeah no beep equals cpu | ram | mb Check if pin 1 on the cpu is in the right place and cpu power cables right and no bent pins. The cpu and ram are compatible with the mb. Hoover the ram slot and reseat If your second mb works you could try the cpu and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I have had systems in the past who refused to boot because the motherboard time was off, and at first it looked like that was the problem again. OpenBSD takes the time from the filesystem in that case and boots. I wish linux did. I had a mate who used to ring me up everytime his mother in law

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
So it is Linux' fault, that your mate used crap Hardware? That is great! let us blame it for the weather too. And stubbed toes. Well the point was that if OpenBSD had an auto update function I could have installed that and he would still be using OpenBSD happily. If Linux did what OpenBSD does

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Questions

2013-01-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Overheating problem? Considering it's about a Pentium 4, that seems a likely cause. Which P4 i has not so probs. The probs come with Atom. Older systems used to reset on overheat so it was obviously hardware. Newer cpus actually halt and then continue operation. Most of the time you

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Questions

2013-01-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Anything newer is a vast improvement, especially Core2 and newer. As long as you ignore the unfixable security issues even by microcode of core2 duos ;-). -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write

Re: [gentoo-user] *draft* for setting up network bridge with systemd (for qemu/kvm)

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
And, BTW, I didn't mean behind in the sense that Gentoo doesn't support systemd; I meant behind in the sense that us systemd users get a lot flak just by mention it in the list. And that's exactly why I see Gentoo as being ahead and actually your talking about a few of the IMO more moronic

Re: [gentoo-user] ebtables on Gentoo?

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
So anyway, my memory of this is all very wishy-washy, but ebtables turned out to be the best way to implement those inter-VM restrictions. It could probably have been done in iptables, but ebtables made it easy to say don't let these two talk. I don;t know the details but I expect that would

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I'm happy to be shown to be wrong and to be shown where Gnome3 has merit for being itself, where it can proudly stand on it's own. But I'm just not seeing it yet I thought the following brilliant feature was obvious? So your Gran has absolutely no chance of finding the power off button so

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I'd still really like someone who groks what Gnome3 is all about to fill in these blanks in my understanding with truthiness ;-) Apparently the main drive is to have a brand, so a constant and so simple look is recognised as a Gnome/? machine. A bit pointless if no-one uses it or changes to

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Do Gnome devs know how to spell fork? I think not they have an accent and keep saying 'pass me the fork an knife' Puzzled why they only got a knife they just get their heads down and start cutting away due to the funny look from the passer. --

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If you can't find the power off button in a modern GNOME installation you have to be quite blind... of course, I don't even use it when I have it, powering off from the console and all. I guess you haven't seen the mountains of users who didn't consider holding ALT to change the suspend option

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

2013-02-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Probably the safest thing you can do I use install scripts and so can have two system copies in tandem easily (aided by OpenBSD being simply brilliant with 0 kernel updates) and test out any procedure for a remote server locally with a VM before doing anything. --

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

2013-03-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 hard and there wouldn't be any reason for many of

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

2013-03-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I can probably dump a lot of apache config. I still need SSL on both servers even though only nginx faces the user? Perhaps you need Apache for certain pages otherwise this is simply a quick fix which is fair enough, we always like those at times but it sounds to me like you could have gained

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

2013-03-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 hard and there wouldn't be any reason

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

2013-03-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 ipv4 with more bits for address space.

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

2013-03-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 determined ipv4 to be superior then. That was before I

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

2013-03-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 addresses, then the cryptographic signature will show

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

2013-03-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 from ipvshit. Tried searching

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

2013-03-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Don't waste time and effort on it. Put your effort into pounding away on a simple issue that people do understand... we're running out of IP addresses. We have run out of unallocated ones, there are still loads of unused ones and even more due to global NAT, and even some being released. It

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

2013-03-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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?

2013-03-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=129666298029771w=2

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

2013-03-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 case of IPV4). The people who are truly interested

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

2013-03-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:29:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: We should be pounding away on the fact that we're running out of IP addresses... period... end of story. If people ask about NAT, then mention that the undersupply will be so bad that even NAT won't

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

2013-03-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros don't allow this, unless you compile your own packages which is no longer

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

2013-03-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
From the headers of his email: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros References: 51418728.7020...@gmail.com In-Reply-To: 51418728.7020...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's perfectly

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Can I chroot to a folder?

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Is that partition mounted with noexec option? or user option without explicit exec option? problem solved :) You know you can bind mount just the directories you want with exec but as interpreters don't check this mount option, it's not as effective as it could be ;-( --

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HTML editor WYSIWYG

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
sublimetext is nice, not OSS though Netbeans is quite useful for html5. Also chrome and firefox have good developer options so you can try changes and see them without a refresh. When I load my pages in a browser they are fine but in every WYSIWYG editor I have tried they are desimated to

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

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 explain, please? It's one of Blueness

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

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 settings/Sending mail. It can write but forces

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

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
forced to send email with HTML, intimating that this means they'll send exploit-laden messages to their recipients. I am not. 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. I'll find time to respond on ipv6 too

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

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 from the net once booted too. Once

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

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 a screenshot of the setting in K-9 where

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

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 for kiosk environments.) Could be

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

2013-03-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 jpg exploits, png exploits, html exploits,

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

2013-03-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 referencing them directly, and this has

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

2013-03-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Either you ignored what I said about being able to disable loading remote content and being able to disable showing inline rich content, or you're seriously concerned about HTML parser vulnerabilities. You can't disable incoming rich content (which is the important one) like jpg logos on

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

2013-03-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
We discussed using a simple RC timer to cut power to the device after a certain amount of uptime, but if I pointed out that if we were spend the time going to that trouble, we may as well go whole-hog and add built-in encryption and make money off the thing. I think the grab-data-and-eject

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If you don't need user session monitoring for anything (which is what ConsoleKit and logind provides), nor interactive privilege granting (which is what polkit provides), then I believe you will have no Thanks. Now *that* is what I call explaining something in a nutshell :-)

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:54:23 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno Silva) wrote: A good overview though I don't agree with If you don't 'need' Did your desktop really fail to run at all? I don't need any of this u* or other things for my desktop computer to work. Maybe this is related to

Re: [gentoo-user] udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
From a technical point of view (the quality of the code and the time it takes to fix bugs), I believe everyone (even Lennart's most fervent detractors) will agree that systemd is a superb piece of software. The problem is the philosophy behind it; if you agree with said philosophy, systemd is

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

2013-03-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 27/03/13 at 11:27am, »Q« wrote: Eventually, as I understand it, GNOME and KDE will require systemd because they want full control of they system. For people not using GNOME or KDE, other init systems will still be possible, with either udev or a udev alternative. I have no idea how

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

2013-03-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:12:04 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com 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

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

2013-03-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:04:25 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com 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

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

2013-03-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:06:16 +0100 Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: As we all know everything works better and cheaper when things are privatized Actually No it's not so simple at all. You get incompetence in private and public and you may be more likely to get away with it for longer

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

2013-03-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:53:29 +0100 Rene Rasmussen gen...@paranoidix.dk wrote: There is also the possibility to use opendns.com I've been using them for years, and have not had any trouble. I started using them when my ISP decided to block some sites. And their standard service is free :)

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

2013-03-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:48:19 + (UTC) Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt 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 slot then you

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

2013-03-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:55:00 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device name changes. Fair point but wouldn't that be only if you plug in two of the same

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

2013-04-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:12:17 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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 human-friendly. It would be

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

2013-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:33:17 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: But somebody had to blow it up. And even more people jumped on it. Boohoo. So the next time you start insulting people, base your findings on more than a blog written by those guys who have an

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
... (i) It's a sound server, a description I don't understand. What does it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary layer of fat between sound applications and the kernel. If you don't understand the term sound server you probably shouldn't be using Gentoo. When

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I don't use wine. For a lot of good reasons. Name one. fat, slow and buggy. Do you need more? If I really had an application that I must use and is windows only - I would install windows. That is a lot quicker and less painful than that wine crapfest shitting all over the place. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike udev...) Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Another question. Can the installation of PulseAudio and Jack coexist? Doable or a constant nightmare? There seems to be a a package to allow pulse to utilise jack. However if you are using jack for the high quality audio benefit then apparently you have to kill pulseaudio even if it means

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I suggested he use Gentoo but I think he saw it as too much work. (comment for me?) All I use is gentoo or embedded (state machines) on embeddded hardware. My target is jack on embedded gentoo, but, I've run into resource limitations, so I'm waiting on my new Arm15 dev board in May.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Just throwing out there that users can or atleast could use alsa plugs to have multiple applications. I did that before pulseaudio came along to play nfs carbon under cedega and listen to music. It should be noted that ALSA users can have multiple applications by doing absolutely

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Therefore Ext2 is a perfect match: * it is so old, that I guess by now most bugs have been found and squashed; * it is so old, that virtually any Linux (or Windows, FreeBSD, or most other knows OS's) are able to at least read it; * it is so old, that by now I bet there are

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike udev...) Of course from many threads

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
So are you saying plugs are no longer required or that they are only needed for certain apps that take over the audio device. I don't even know exactly what ALSA plugs are, and ALSA has worked perfectly for all these years, so yeah, whatever an ALSA plug is, either it is not required

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