On Saturday 15 February 2020 15:07:00 Les Newell wrote: [...]
We pretty muh agree to here, Les. > > So open source is truly open source but I'll bet 95% of the members > > on this forum haven't a clue what Gene or Thomas means when they > > post how they are rebuilding the kernel for a Raspberry Pi. I know that makes me an 85 year old geek, but I was a girlfriendless geek long before the word was invented. > > If you really want to know the information is a Google search away. Sometimes Les. I am on a slow 10mbit cable modem, and on SS so I can't see getting a gigabit hookup. But when I first put that info and the files up on my web page, they were found in minutes by the herd of bots that service the search engines like google etc. But the offshore bots tend to ignore your robots.txt and want to mirror your site, and since theres at least 100 such offshore bots I had to block with iptables rules, which because they bounce around in the same D block weekly trying to get around iptables type guard dogs to steal ever more data, I use /24 masking in my rules to kill that whole class D. Google was one of the first to ignore robots.txt so they fell to the block quite early. Its taken nearly 50 rules to get enough peace so folks that do want something don't have to share my nominally 300kb upload bandwidth with 3 other bots. But that means the any data that google, bing or sembot etc has aged out, and no longer available to the search engines. It has that cost, but a 300kb upload of my whole site will take about a week per bot, so allowing that access is simply not compatible with the size of my pipe. > If > you put in the time to learn this stuff you will end up knowing how to > do it. Gene is not an experienced Linux kernel developer. He started > off knowing little about what was needed but was willing to put in the > time to learn. Thanks for the flowers Les. :) > Les Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
