Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

On 24/11/17 15:39, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Is there any guidance on setting up fetchmail on Gentoo to operate in this > way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long out of date > and others don't help much, so I still don't know what to add to /etc/ > conf.d/fetchmail, nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

On 26/11/17 18:46, Ralph Seichter wrote: > Does NeoMutt perhaps suppress dupes based on message ID? Thunderbird > obviously does not. Thunderbird has an add-on that will delete duplicates. I make regular use of it :-( Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

On 22/11/17 14:11, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote: > > You won't get build failures or dependency problems, portage is built to > handle emerging multiple packages that do not depend on each other > simultaneously. > it will not ever build a dependency and the main program at the same time. Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a pre-compiled Linux distribution

On 23/11/17 18:45, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/11/17 19:11, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to recommend a Linux distribution to someone who needs an as >> simple Linux distribution as possible. >> Since I am going to help that person from time to time, it should be >> as similar

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

On 05/12/17 10:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> I assume using a ramdisk would help with this? I wouldn't want to do a >> > SSD as I assume it would excessively wear by doing compiles. > I use tmpfs, like this: > > $ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab > tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 01/12/17 17:14, Rich Freeman wrote: > You could run btrfs over md-raid, but other than the snapshots I think > this loses a lot of the benefit of btrfs in the first place. You are > vulnerable to the write hole, The write hole is now "fixed". In quotes because, although journalling has now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 13/12/17 00:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> and Windows has this infuriating habit of >> > ignoring my command to shutdown, instead suspending to disk. As my >> > Windows partitions automount in linux, this causes the mount to fail, >> > and systemd won't boot the system. So I spend/waste half an

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of TLD for internal network

On 19/12/17 13:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one > hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing, > because it guarantees that every hostname is globally unique (so if I > copy/paste a URL to you, it goes the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 15/12/17 01:16, Marc Joliet wrote: > [ Just to be clear: autofs is a Linux kernel feature, systemd just exposes it > in an easy to use way. That is, BTW, a theme with systemd. ] Likewise, cgroups. I believe Lennart is regularly "blamed" for this, but it's been in the kernel a looonngg time,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 12/12/17 18:55, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > You seem to know systemd reasonably well - maybe you've got it > installed and you're using it. Please tell me whether my suspicion > above (that systemd builds stuff into the system that is likely to be > superfluous to a user, and possibly forces its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 13/12/17 15:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:01:38 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > >>> Can't you change this with fstab settings. I see a similar behaviour >>> when trying t mount NFS shares that aren't there, but it gives up >>> trying a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd fails to mount nfs4 mounts

On 01/11/17 20:25, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/29/2017 08:15 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: >> Come to think of it, I'm going to look back and see if there was an >> update around the time I started having problems. Maybe there was a >> regression of some sort. >> > > So I bought a large SSD, and cloned

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 31/10/17 23:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:33:53 + > Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > >> In the UK at least also, we have ring mains. These are rated at 30 Amps, >> from which you can take a 13 Amp feed from any socket. Once you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 07/12/17 21:37, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Ooooh, I just came up with another good reason for raidz over mirror: > I don't encrypt my drives because it doesn't hold sensitive stuff. (AFAIK > native ZFS encryption is available in Oracle ZFS, so it might eventually > come to the Linux world). >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 07/12/17 22:35, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> (Oh - and md raid-5/6 also mix data and parity, so the same holds true >> > there.) > Ok, wasn’t aware of that. I thought I read in a ZFS article that this were a > special thing. Say you've got a four-drive raid-6, it'll be something like data1

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 07/12/17 09:52, Richard Bradfield wrote: > I did also investigate USB3 external enclosures, they're pretty > fast these days. AARRGGH !!! If you're using mdadm, DO NOT TOUCH USB WITH A BARGE POLE !!! I don't know the details, but I gather the problems are very similar to the timeout

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 07/12/17 14:53, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > When I configured my kernel the other day, I discovered network block > devices as an option. My PC has a hotswap bay[0]. Problem solved. :) Then I > can do zpool replace with the drive-to-be-replaced still in the pool, which > improves resilver read

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 07/12/17 20:17, Richard Bradfield wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 06:35:16PM +0000, Wols Lists wrote: >> On 07/12/17 09:52, Richard Bradfield wrote: >>> I did also investigate USB3 external enclosures, they're pretty >>> fast these days. >> >> AARRGGHH

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

On 06/12/17 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Those guidelines you mention about what /tmp and /var/tmp are "for" are > probably from the FHS. On the whole, I tend to agree they are good ideas > but the proper wording is more like this (from memory, being far too > lazy after a day's work to actually

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

On 06/12/17 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: > - contents of /tmp are not expected to survive the invocation of the > program that created them > - contents of /var/tmp are not expected to survive a reboot That sounds completely wrong, actually. The contents of /var/tmp are expected to survive a

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

On 05/12/17 21:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:09:56 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> $ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab >> tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs >> noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775 0 0 >> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs >> noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 09/12/17 16:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, December 8, 2017 12:48:45 AM CET Wols Lists wrote: >> On 07/12/17 22:35, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>>> (Oh - and md raid-5/6 also mix data and parity, so the same holds true >>>> >>>>> there.) &g

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 09/12/17 23:36, Rich Freeman wrote: > you instead compute 5 sets of parity so that now you have 9 sets of > data that can tolerate the loss of any 5, then throw away the sets > containing the original 4 sets of data and store the remaining 5 sets > of parity data across the 5 drives. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 09/12/17 12:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I'm all in favour of Lennart-bashing, but let's keep the bashing to what > he's responsible for. As far as I can tell, the most egregious thing he's responsible for is for wanting a well-designed system that works! Face it, linux is a hodge-podge of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 10/12/17 15:07, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > Is that how ZFS works? >> > > I doubt it, hence why I wrote "most parity RAID systems seem to > operate just as you describe." So the OP needs to be aware that, if his file is smaller than the chunk size, then it *will* be recoverable from a disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 10/12/17 10:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've no idea how good systemd is. It's not been through the normal > process of choice and selection that other successful packages have. It > was forced on people. But being forced to have a binary system log, > being forced (so I have heard) to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 11/12/17 22:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> I don't want a binary logging daemon either: that means having to learn >> > a special purpose utility to be able to read its logs, and, in general, >> > not being able to read that log from a remote machine. > "journalctl" is just the same as "less

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 12/12/17 10:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: > That means every write has to be encrypted 4 times, whereas using > encryption in the filesystem means it only has to be done once. I tried > setting encrypted BTRFS this way and there was a significant performance > hit. I'm seriously considering going

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On 27/11/17 22:30, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Hi all, > I need to expand two bcache fronted 4xdisk btrfs raid 10's - this > requires purchasing 4 drives (and one system does not have room for two > more drives) so I am trying to see if using raid 5 is an option > > I have been trying to find

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

On 05/12/17 13:07, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> (My new system when I get it working maxes out at 64GB ram so I'll have >> > 256GB swap and (currently) 16GB ram) > I've halved my original 4GB swap to 2GB since it never seems to be used. I'm > not brave enough to do away with it altogether though.

Re: [gentoo-user] A portage nuisance

On 28/10/17 23:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> emerge -u world >> > A will be emerged with options ... >> > B will be emerged with options ... >> > C will be emerged with options ... >> > D is blocked by E >> > F will be emerged with options ... >> > G is blocked by H >> > Giving up, too many

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 30/10/17 23:28, Mick wrote: > The regulator does not hold the budget, central government departments do and > the regulator cannot (or will not) control abnormal profits privatised > utilities are making year after year. However, the regulator will engage > enthusiastically in the a theatre

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 30/10/17 23:42, Rich Freeman wrote: > If the big banks thought that investing for the long term would make > them more money they would do it. They have no loyalty to the > companies they invest in. If they can invest in a company one month, > and make more money by investing in a competitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 30/10/17 23:32, Rich Freeman wrote: > Often there are elements of a traditionally public service that aren't > natural monopolies which can be outsourced for a benefit. Electrical > generation is often a case of that, but as I suggested you do need to > ensure you're paying to have extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 31/10/17 00:09, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > > the issue is with plugging one thing, into another, into another and > then into the wall, most outlet strips are cheap, they don't use proper > sockets and often have/develop a significant resistance, which creates a > hazard

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 29/10/17 11:21, Dale wrote: > Power failures aren't as often the past few years anyway. I could > almost make it without a UPS BUT I do like having that extra > protection. Mine has some serious surge protection in it plus > brownout/over voltage protection/warning as well. While I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 29/10/17 19:11, Mick wrote: > BTW, perhaps in UK cities general and unpredicted power cuts are relatively > rare and brownouts don't occur often. Out in the sticks the infrastructure > is > so neglected power cuts and brown outs can be a weekly occurrence. I just > bought yet another UPS

Re: [gentoo-user] A portage nuisance

On 28/10/17 15:52, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:58:13 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:52:54 - >> > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> > >>> > > I have a problem with emerge for a long time. >>> > > Sometimes I need to (re-)emerge many

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of TLD for internal network

On 20/12/17 02:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:09:30 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:33:08 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: It's not about political correctness but perspective. The good guys intervene, the baddies interfere. It's like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre-NG

On 09/05/18 19:18, Martin Vaeth wrote: > As mentioned, I wonder why gcc/clang do not yet support this > horribly slow but spectre-safe option. It can't be that hard to > implement in the actual code-producing back-end. Given the response by the gcc team to security people complaining that gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Mammoth emerge ...

On 03/05/18 16:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:58:44 BST Mick wrote: > >> Is there anything I can do with the existing laptop and its limited >> resources to speed up chromium's emerge? > > All I can suggest is to build a package in a chroot on a speedier machine and >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

On 21/05/18 10:08, Mick wrote: > PS. I use Corsair PSUs and always spend more on them to make sure it is not > the cheapest model. A middle of the range modular unit comes with Japanese > capacitors and has not caused me problems in various builds. In cheaper > models I've ended up replacing

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

On 12/06/18 09:44, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 11/06/18 09:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Well, "Windows ACLs" is the only ACL system that is standardized (as part >>> of >>> the NFSv4 standard). The old prop

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

On 11/06/18 09:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Wol's lists wrote: > >> On 09/06/18 18:09, Rich Freeman wrote: > ... >>> downsides as well, in particular it is certainly more complex and at >>> work we practically forbid any kind of windows ACLs at anything other >>> than the top mount level because

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

On 09/06/18 05:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? > > Or, is there any other remote filesystem (other than the one originally > made by Microsoft) that avoids that chore? Which filesystem do you mean? Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

On 11/06/18 20:11, R0b0t1 wrote: > AMD is an American company based out of California. However rereading > the post I notice he is using Euros, in which case there are likely > even stronger guarantees of fitness for a particular purpose. I > suppose it doesn't help that the seller seems to have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Being Facebook member: How to anon?

On 23/10/17 14:56, Stroller wrote: > There are quite granular settings to allow anyone but friends to see or post > on your timeline - I was quite impressed by how much privacy appears to be > available to users. I suspect this allows you more privacy from you family > and colleagues than it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

On 30/12/17 12:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: > [2nd random OT factoid] > It's the "world series" because the first sponsor was a newspaper "News > of the World" iirc (plus some typical US bravado) Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally perfectly legit. As usual,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

On 31/12/17 10:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:26:26 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally >>> perfectly legit. >> >> I don't agree. In that case it should have been called the New York >> World Series. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

On 29/12/17 16:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The only "correct" place for papersize nowadays is in whatever the user > is using to get something to print. And there are lots of those. > Something like CUPS ought to make it all so much easier but I find CUPS > just makes my life insanely difficult. So

Re: [gentoo-user] microcode applied?

On 08/01/18 13:52, Rich Freeman wrote: > There is also a lot of discussion on lkml about the right fix. We > might very well end up seeing both AMD- and Intel-specific fixes with > conditional logic. The two vendors don't really seem to be > coordinating on this. Intel is pushing patches that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB3 external storage HD's

On 18/01/18 18:45, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 18/01/18 20:33, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> Do those External Storage work with Linux (USB3)? >> I don't want to install any ventor-software, I just want one that plugs >> and play. >> >> Any recommendations? > > My USB 3 stick works fine, at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB3 external storage HD's

On 18/01/18 21:22, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > if you're going with external drives use laptop drives, or build a JBOD > with good cooling. in any case, monitor drive temperatures, in my > experiance anything above 100F is asking for a short life, bellow or at > 100F drives new

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice-5.4.2.2 fails to start

On 20/01/18 01:11, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 01/19/2018 05:25 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > [snip] >> >> The strange part is that on the same box I created a new "user" and >> Libreoffice works just fine. >> But it will not work when I log in. >> >> I've deleted the folder setting.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

On 25/01/18 10:54, Dan Johansson wrote: > But when I boot without the USB-key inserted I always "lands" in the > Built-in EFI Shell - NO sign of GRUB. > > Any suggestions where I have gone wrong? Well, in your position I wouldn't be trying to load grub. I've got a new mobo (with a Ryzen 3 :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: cleanup after USB backup drive unplugged?

On 12/01/18 15:39, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I usually also include a check to ensure that some file/directory >> > exists which I expect to be on the drive, which prevents the backup >> > script from dumping a full backup into your mountpoint if it isn't >> > mounted (possibly on a filesystem with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

On 03/02/18 08:43, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Having so many words derived via French from Latin, English is also a > romance language to some extent. I know it's officially classed as a > Germanic language, but I can't see why. There seems to be no Teutonic > influence to speak of. Few words in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote: > role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of /usr > (that's why it's called /usr, it was user data in early unix). The Actually no, not at all. /usr is not short for USeR, it's an acronym for User System Resources, which is why it

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade

On 02/01/18 19:26, Stroller wrote: > >> On 2 Jan 2018, at 11:54, Kruglov Sergey wrote: >> >> Now I have gentoo-sources-4.14.8-r1 installed. >> After "emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world" command >> emerge installs old kernel in NS (after first

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade

On 03/01/18 21:39, Stroller wrote: >> What this completely misses, is that gentoo-sources merely DOWNLOADS THE >> > LATEST KERNEL SOURCE. So updating gentoo-sources every time does nothing >> > to change the kernel you are running. > I don't know why you think I missed that. Because you're

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade

On 03/01/18 21:21, Stroller wrote: > Meanwhile, I've seen security vulnerabilities go unfixed for literally weeks > in the bug tracker, so I don't see the significance of a vulnerability an > attacker is unlikely to be able to reach. The sites I visit do not make me > fear my kernel being

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade

On 03/01/18 22:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 04/01/2018 00:02, Stroller wrote: >> >>> On 3 Jan 2018, at 21:55, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: >>> >>> What would be nice, would be if "emerge --depclean" had the smarts to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: old kernels are installed during the upgrade

On 02/01/18 22:58, Adam Carter wrote: > AMD coder's patch to disable the new code (to avoid the performance hit) > where he states the issue doesnt exist on AMD processors; > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2 Read LWN, specifically the links to the people who covered the bug. It's a flaw in

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

On 14/08/18 12:42, John Covici wrote: > I use sanoid/syncoid to back up using zfs. Its great, keeps snapshots > for as long as I want them (I use 80 days for now). And it keeps > hourlies for the last couple of days as well, so I could roll back in > case of a problem. Very nice if you use zfs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > > I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but > I do plan to do some backups on it, mostly pictures from my camera. In > one of the enclosures I put a single 6TB drive that I found on ebay. It > has about 7,000 hours on

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

On 25/08/18 10:04, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the replies : > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. > Search for the thread "Backup questions" by Dale 8/8/18. That has a load of ideas, and depending on your host filesystem you have other options. For example,

[gentoo-user] Something's messed up my mimetypes

While I appreciate it's a damn sight more powerful than Windoze's braindead file extension system, it feels to me like mimetypes are a rogue chainsaw sometimes ... How do I find out what mimetypes are associated with an application? Going the other way is a simple "System Settings" options,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle

On 01/09/18 10:39, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> I wish there was a portage option that said "don't give up, just emerge >> > what you can". > There is: --keep-going > There isn't ... "keep going" says "don't stop once you've started". What I want is "start anyway". If emerge hits a load of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?

On 27/02/18 17:43, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > The --changed-deps flag, on the other hand, is a crutch for when > developers make in-place edits to ebuilds and don't make the necessary > revision bump. I believe the --changed-deps flag is ALSO for USERS who want to change settings on their

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

On 01/03/18 00:26, Rich Freeman wrote: > Like everybody around here I prefer a FOSS implementation, > and would trust it more due to the "many eyes" philosophy, but I'd > stop short of saying that the Windows software firewall is > particularly insecure. Bear in mind that "many eyes" only works

Re: [gentoo-user] [okey..] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

On 01/03/18 09:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 23:11:12 GMT Nils Freydank wrote: > >> PS: What about the "suspected spam" in your subject? Is that a bug in the >> ML software or does that one come from you? > > I don't see that. Are you sure it isn't you? :) > I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer

On 01/03/18 10:33, Roger Cahn wrote: > Hi, > > For my birthday (!) my children want to offer me a multifunction > printer, copier. > > I ask you for an idea which one they could buy. > > For example: Multifonction A3 HP Officejet Pro 7612 > > -gentoo amd64 compatible > > -inkjet color

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

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] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

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

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] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard

On 08/04/2018 00:18, Marc Joliet wrote: Hi list I have a bit of a weird issue. I recently acquired a used server (Fujitsu Primergy TX140 S1) via a friend of mine. I have Gentoo installed on it now and overall it works fine save for one perplexing issue [0]: The bootloader hangs when booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

On 19/04/18 16:28, John Blinka wrote: > My sympathies to the OP. I fought against dark terminal backgrounds > for years (paper is white and ink is black, right?), tweaked all the > colors through every mechanism I knew of, and never did arrive at a > satisfactory result. Paper is reflective,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

On 17/03/18 13:53, Fast Turtle wrote: > So ask > youself, why in hell they needed more then 4M? I could see 8M being a > selling point but 64M - hell the first computer I build only had 16M > (that was a 386 system). Because buying new 8Mb chips is expensive, and 64Mb is cheaper? Seriously,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer

On 01/03/18 17:41, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:29:39 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:10:58 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: For my birthday (!) my children want to offer me a multifunction printer, copier. I ask you for an idea which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer

On 01/03/18 22:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:56:15 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > >>> If I cared about scanning, I'd be very tempted to spend enough money >>> to get a network-connected printer that just e-mails me a PDF document >>> or w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer

On 01/03/18 22:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:56:15 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > >>> If I cared about scanning, I'd be very tempted to spend enough money >>> to get a network-connected printer that just e-mails me a PDF document >>> or w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer

On 01/03/18 15:43, Grant Edwards wrote: > If I cared about scanning, I'd be very tempted to spend enough money > to get a network-connected printer that just e-mails me a PDF document > or writes it to a network file server. Make sure you check the specs. Either it'll be expensive, or it probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Closing TAB of Firefix stops Video/Audio playback system wide...

On 26/02/18 06:33, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:13 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 10:07 PM, wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> whenever I close a TAB of Firefox the playback of video or/and audio >>> ist stopped for seconds. After that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question

On 12/11/18 08:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I bought an HP_Color (their spelling, not mine!) LaserJet MFP M476dw a > few years ago. It does duplex printing and scanning and just works. A > full set of toner cartridges isn't cheap, but they last well. Looking at the front of mine, it's a Color

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

On 09/11/18 01:16, Dale wrote: > Howdy to all, > > I have a interesting problem coming up. Currently, I have two 3TB > drives for my /home mount point. A lot of this is videos but some pdf > files and other documents as well plus a photo collection of family > stuff etc. > > Filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble on the horizon!

On 25/09/18 05:49, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 6:34 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> On 24/09/2018 13:11, R0b0t1 wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Nikos Chantziaras >>> wrote: To me it looks like youtubers and some sites trying to make money through

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

On 23/01/19 07:37, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:05 AM Paul Colquhoun > wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 5:52:57 PM AEDT Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:20 AM Adam Carter wrote: >> François-Xavier > > My bad, it should be: >

Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

On 17/12/18 19:32, Jack wrote: > ddrescue has now been running for almost 22 hours, and it's been 47 > seconds less than that since its last successful read. Doesn't sound good. Just to throw my tuppence-worth of bad news into the mix, are your drives in USB enclosures? I really don't trust USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

On 10/01/19 12:28, Mick wrote: > What about 'rsync -H' or 'tar --hard-dereference'? Don't they cater to hard > links in the fs? rsync and cp are both quite happy with hardlinks. They just keep a table of them in memory ... a 3TB disk full of hard links will fill your memory ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

On 10/01/19 00:55, Dale wrote: > Just how do you do backups? If cp -a and rsync would not work > correctly, what do you use? I'm just curious now. ;-) RAID. I know it's not meant as a backup, and if anything happens to the computer it could take out both drives, but at the moment I have two

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse disconnecting

On 13/01/19 18:19, Dale wrote: > I just wanted to mention in case this is bigger than just a mouse > issue. One may want to look deeper. I'm running the latest openSUSE stable on my laptop, and while it has other issues, it seems to lose USB (and hence mouse) on boot every now and then. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thank you for your insight.

On 28/12/18 21:49, R0b0t1 wrote: > As I am sure you are aware, under US law there is no contract if both > sides have not provided consideration. This leaves us in the strange > place of gratis licenses being suggestions. Please note (and this is apparently settled case law in the US)

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

On 07/01/19 10:46, Dale wrote: > From what I've read, that can be overcome. If you get say a SMART > message that a drive is failing, Yup, I have to agree that SMART isn't always reliable, but if you *monitor* it, it should give plenty of warning of the recording medium failing ... > just

Re: [gentoo-user] NVM on Gentoo Linux?

On 31/03/19 09:08, Andreas Fink wrote: > On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 08:38:43 +0100 > Wols Lists wrote: > >> I'm planning to migrate my system soon, but I'm going to do that a bit >> differently. I'll dd my home partition across (I've got hard-links >> galore, so a cp or

Re: [gentoo-user] NVM on Gentoo Linux?

On 31/03/19 02:12, Tamer Higazi wrote: > Can somebody of you give me a good starting point ? > I think it has something todo with systemrescuecd which I would prepare > on a USB stick and ... ... ... > Well, ... Personally I'd leave Windows on the slow disk to discourage you from using it ...

Re: [gentoo-user] NVM on Gentoo Linux?

On 31/03/19 17:05, Rich Freeman wrote: > I believe that it can resize partitions and so on, at least > for the linux-oriented ones. I'm not sure if it can resize NTFS. When I resize my Windows partitions (rarely) I use linux tools to do so. (btw, my 2.5TB /home is pretty full :-) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

On 06/03/19 17:39, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Up to now, I've never had a HDD or SDD fail on me. :-) I hope that > when this does eventually happen, I'll be prepared. I don't think I've had one of mine fail. I have, however, done recovery jobs on two drives that did fail that I managed to revive

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 16/06/19 18:00, Grant Taylor wrote: > I don't know if it's better or not, but here's what I'd do. > > · I'd put each OS on it's own drive (if at all possible). > · I'd have a separate /boot and / (root) for each OS. > · I'd configure UEFI boot menu entries for each OS. > > That way, the

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 17/06/19 00:29, Grant Taylor wrote: >> Drives are cheap. The old "swap is twice ram" rule actually isn't an >> old wife's tale - the basic Unix swap mechanism NEEDS twice ram. > > No, it doesn't. Not any more. It hasn't for quite a while. So you didn't read what I wrote ... Par for the

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 17/06/19 04:37, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/16/19 7:02 PM, Wols Lists wrote: >> So you didn't read what I wrote ... Par for the course :-( > > I did. I still hear people say it today. It's not old as in past tense. > >> The basic Unix mechanism needs twice ram. >

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