[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-07 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: MAKEOPTS=-j16 -l10 There was also a discussion on this list a year or two ago, where Michael Mol conducted some extensive tests. My settings came out of that discussion. I cannot seem to find that thread. I tried all sorts of keywords search

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-07 Thread James
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com writes: What is a good acroread replacement? Grant, I was looking into this a bit deeper and found this disturbing opportunity with all things Adobe [1]. Maybe you are pursuing the best path in lieu of what I have recently read about all things

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-07 Thread James
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com writes: I'm not sure what changed, but as of a few weeks ago I can no longer install acroread on my AMD64 system (something to do with x86 emulation librarys being blocked by something in the Xorg server). Hello Grant, I do not remember doing

Re: [gentoo-user] new linux router

2015-03-07 Thread Marc Stuermer
Am 04.03.2015 um 16:10 schrieb James: I'd like to be able to download some open source linux to the router hardware if updates and pathces are not maintained by the vendor? That way I do not purchase something that is to be abandoned in a few years by the vendor. Take a look at Microtik:

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for acroread on 64bit system?

2015-03-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:42:21 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: One of the things I like to be able to do is to open up a PDF document and print a portion of one of a page in a size that fills a single 8.5x11 sheet. This is trivial in acroread, but impossible in evince or emacs (actually I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails

2015-03-07 Thread thegeezer
On 05/03/15 09:46, Marc Joliet wrote: Hi all, at work I'm (well, *we* are) facing an interesting problem. Since we are sort of stabbing in the dark here, I thought I'd ask here. Also, since this is from work, I will not be able to diverge very many details (not to mention that as a

Re: [gentoo-user] new linux router

2015-03-07 Thread thegeezer
On 04/03/15 15:10, James wrote: Hello, It's time to build a new router. Surely, I would just like to purchase hardware and run a minimized or embedded gentoo on it along with iptables and a few other packages. But, I got to reading and well it seems much has changed. Dansguardian is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-07 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:33:13 -0800 schrieb walt w41...@gmail.com: On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: mega-snip What happens is that when I (cold) boot my desktop, my external Toshiba 3TB drive (which is always connected via USB3) is detected, but cannot mount. It *does* work