Re: [gentoo-user] ISP extorsion - how to negate / get around?

[taii...@gmx.com]

On 03/10/2017 02:50 PM, Corbin Bird wrote:


Have a serious problem, might cost me any Internet access.

My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum"

1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity.

2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me
to update their records ( for sale-of purposes ). This includes phone (
all ), SSN, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers.
Tell them you are a foreigner and thus you don't have an SSN, offer to 
provide a deposit.


3 # : the ISP attempting to force agreement to "no communications
allowed with the FCC". Also is attempting to force agreement to
"Arbitration with the ISP as the Arbiter" for all complaints.

Ask your local public utilities commission if this is allowed.


4 # : billing is only online now. Not allowed to see a Account
Statement, or receive any "receipt for payment" until I comply with ISP
demands.

5 # : external e-mail clients ( Thunderbird, Claws-Mail, etc. ) are now
starting to have problems. ISP solution -> must use their web based
e-mail app only ( only works with Windoze, surprise! ).

How can a web based email service only work with windows?

6 # : ISP is starting to filter customers web access. The ISP is
deciding what sites customers are allowed to see. ( look up the practice
called "ransom" ).

Get a vpn service?


7 # : no other broadband ISP in the regional area. No alternatives.

They are using a hijack technique that I don't know the name of,
attempting to force compliance.

NOTE : The ?hijack technique? will corrupt the portage trees if you use
"emerge-webrsync".

Is there any way to ... fix? work-around? ... this idiocy?



Background info :

The old cable modem suddenly stopped working. The ISP sent out a clone
of a Cisco DPC2316 ( Technicolor ), complete with hacked / trashed /
closed firmware. So I returned the rented cable modem ( bought my own ).
The Technicolor clone was using a built-in Java based "???" to
redirect / filter at the modem.

All cable modems are closed source and controlled by the ISP AFAIK.

Switched to Google Public DNS. Doesn't effect the ?hijack technique?.


You want privacy but you are using google? what?

The "uMatrix/uBlock Origin" plugins ( Firefox/ Palemoon ) stop the
?hijack technique? in the web browser. Always shows up as an ipv4
address, embedded in a "frame", that resolves to "*-charter-*".


Complain to your local utilities commission.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] hylafaxplus-5.5.5 not working

[thelma]

SOLVED!
media-libs/tiff-4.0.7 is not compatible with hylafaxplus-5.5.5
Downgrading to tiff-4.0.6 solved the problem

--
Thelma

On 03/08/2017 10:50 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> After upgrade my hylafaxplus-5.5.5 is not working, fax line is not
> responding.
> 
> Whey I try to sent a fax, /sbin/faxq is hanging-up (CPU usage 100%)
> 
> hylafaxplus-5.5.5 is the only version in portage. They removed all other
> versions :-/
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] ISP extorsion - how to negate / get around?

[Rich Freeman]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Corbin Bird  wrote:
>
> My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum"
>
> 1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity.

Nothing you can do about that if it really is connectivity.

>
> 2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me
> to update their records ( for sale-of purposes ). This includes phone (
> all ), SSN, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers.
>
> 3 # : the ISP attempting to force agreement to "no communications
> allowed with the FCC". Also is attempting to force agreement to
> "Arbitration with the ISP as the Arbiter" for all complaints.
>
> 4 # : billing is only online now. Not allowed to see a Account
> Statement, or receive any "receipt for payment" until I comply with ISP
> demands.

While I certainly agree with your frustrations on these, I suspect
your options are pretty limited if they really are a monopoly.  You
may just have to live with these if you don't want to do something
exotic for internet access.

> 5 # : external e-mail clients ( Thunderbird, Claws-Mail, etc. ) are now
> starting to have problems. ISP solution -> must use their web based
> e-mail app only ( only works with Windoze, surprise! ).
>
> 6 # : ISP is starting to filter customers web access. The ISP is
> deciding what sites customers are allowed to see. ( look up the practice
> called "ransom" ).

I would see if a VPN works for you.  It would solve these problems at
least.  Of course, they could do something to block the VPN, but I
believe some services can work over SSL/etc unless your ISP is
carefully blacklisting them.

>
> NOTE : The ?hijack technique? will corrupt the portage trees if you use
> "emerge-webrsync".
>

Can you define "corrupt" here?  Looking at the source emerge-webrsync
should at the least do a digest check if available (and if it isn't
available I'd be interested in that), and if you set the webrsync-gpg
FEATURE flag in make.conf it should also check the gpg signature.
Unless your ISP is doing a Gentoo-specific MITM the first should
detect problems, and unless our gpg checking is completely broken the
latter should detect anything the ISP tries to do to the file.  They
could of course prevent you from syncing, but tampering shouldn't be
an issue.

-- 
Rich

[gentoo-user] Something is blocking an addition of fonts

[Harry Putnam]

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host
 Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon  CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram

I've added some fonts from outside portage this way:

 (Sorry that what follows is a bit of a confusing mess)

mkdir /usr/share/fonts/terminus
loaded the fonts into termininus

Ran:
   mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/terminus
Ran:
 xset fp rehash

Which is supposed to tell the X fonts tools about the new
set of fonts with out having to restart X.

I thought a bit and wondered if I might should have added the new
directory to the font path.. I don't really think so since the default
path covers the new one but stillso:

Ran:
  xset +fp  /usr/share/fonts/terminus

That is supposed to prepend that path to the existing path.

Checked with:

  xset q

And I see the new directory

  Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/terminus_hp3-170310/,/usr/share/fonts/misc/,built-ins


The new fonts show up with `fc-list'

OK, all seems to be working... 

Until I actually try to use them.

xterm -fa ter-u14b_iso-8859-1.pcf
(output wrapped for mail)

Warning: Cannot convert string
"-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type
FontStruct

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

It appears the xterm is trying to load a font from somewhere else even
though I asked for  `ter-u14b_iso-8859-1.pcf'

I'm not at all sure where the -adobe-helvetica if being called.

  sudo grep -r 'adobe-helvetica'  /usr/share/fonts
   

However there are piles of fonts with `adobe' in the name:

  sudo grep -r adobe /usr/share/fonts|wc-l
173

They appear to be mostly like this:

   /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/fonts.scale:verdanaz.ttf
   -microsoft-verdana-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard

Thought it might be from .Xresoures but there are no fonts there with
adobe in the name

   `grep adobe .Xresources' 

Anybody here recognize what the problem might be?

There are a few helvetica in the .. only one is english:

   /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias:variable \
 -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

And two japanese helveticas

So I can't even tell where that adobe font is coming from
  

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

[Jonathan Callen]

On 03/09/2017 10:05 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
> I have one command that dumps out a number of lines of output, and i want
> to have another command run multiple times taking a single line contents as
> its argument(s) each time. From what i understand of xargs it takes all the
> piped input and runs a command once with each of the piped inputs as
> another argument.
> 
> Eg. say i want to run ethtool against each active interface dumped out by;
> ifconfig | grep ^[a-zA-Z] | awk '{print $1}'
> 
> Tnx
> 

You can still use xargs to do this, you just need to pass "-n 1" to tell
xargs to only use 1 argument from the input per command run (instead of
as many as possible), like so:

ifconfig | grep [^A-Za-z] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n 1 ethtool

-- 
Jonathan Callen



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Re: [gentoo-user] ISP extorsion - how to negate / get around?

[landis blackwell]

Hmm just saw your second part on dns. Try vpn

On Mar 10, 2017 1:55 PM, "landis blackwell" 
wrote:

> Hijack is probably due to dns. Don't use their dns servers. For webmail
> just use a full fledged browser and spoof user agent. Not sure about the
> contract stuff
>
> On Mar 10, 2017 1:51 PM, "Corbin Bird"  wrote:
>
>> Have a serious problem, might cost me any Internet access.
>>
>> My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum"
>>
>> 1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity.
>>
>> 2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me
>> to update their records ( for sale-of purposes ). This includes phone (
>> all ), SSN, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers.
>>
>> 3 # : the ISP attempting to force agreement to "no communications
>> allowed with the FCC". Also is attempting to force agreement to
>> "Arbitration with the ISP as the Arbiter" for all complaints.
>>
>> 4 # : billing is only online now. Not allowed to see a Account
>> Statement, or receive any "receipt for payment" until I comply with ISP
>> demands.
>>
>> 5 # : external e-mail clients ( Thunderbird, Claws-Mail, etc. ) are now
>> starting to have problems. ISP solution -> must use their web based
>> e-mail app only ( only works with Windoze, surprise! ).
>>
>> 6 # : ISP is starting to filter customers web access. The ISP is
>> deciding what sites customers are allowed to see. ( look up the practice
>> called "ransom" ).
>>
>> 7 # : no other broadband ISP in the regional area. No alternatives.
>>
>> They are using a hijack technique that I don't know the name of,
>> attempting to force compliance.
>>
>> NOTE : The ?hijack technique? will corrupt the portage trees if you use
>> "emerge-webrsync".
>>
>> Is there any way to ... fix? work-around? ... this idiocy?
>>
>>
>>
>> Background info :
>>
>> The old cable modem suddenly stopped working. The ISP sent out a clone
>> of a Cisco DPC2316 ( Technicolor ), complete with hacked / trashed /
>> closed firmware. So I returned the rented cable modem ( bought my own ).
>> The Technicolor clone was using a built-in Java based "???" to
>> redirect / filter at the modem.
>>
>> Switched to Google Public DNS. Doesn't effect the ?hijack technique?.
>>
>> The "uMatrix/uBlock Origin" plugins ( Firefox/ Palemoon ) stop the
>> ?hijack technique? in the web browser. Always shows up as an ipv4
>> address, embedded in a "frame", that resolves to "*-charter-*".
>>
>>
>>

Re: [gentoo-user] ISP extorsion - how to negate / get around?

[landis blackwell]

Hijack is probably due to dns. Don't use their dns servers. For webmail
just use a full fledged browser and spoof user agent. Not sure about the
contract stuff

On Mar 10, 2017 1:51 PM, "Corbin Bird"  wrote:

> Have a serious problem, might cost me any Internet access.
>
> My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum"
>
> 1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity.
>
> 2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me
> to update their records ( for sale-of purposes ). This includes phone (
> all ), SSN, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers.
>
> 3 # : the ISP attempting to force agreement to "no communications
> allowed with the FCC". Also is attempting to force agreement to
> "Arbitration with the ISP as the Arbiter" for all complaints.
>
> 4 # : billing is only online now. Not allowed to see a Account
> Statement, or receive any "receipt for payment" until I comply with ISP
> demands.
>
> 5 # : external e-mail clients ( Thunderbird, Claws-Mail, etc. ) are now
> starting to have problems. ISP solution -> must use their web based
> e-mail app only ( only works with Windoze, surprise! ).
>
> 6 # : ISP is starting to filter customers web access. The ISP is
> deciding what sites customers are allowed to see. ( look up the practice
> called "ransom" ).
>
> 7 # : no other broadband ISP in the regional area. No alternatives.
>
> They are using a hijack technique that I don't know the name of,
> attempting to force compliance.
>
> NOTE : The ?hijack technique? will corrupt the portage trees if you use
> "emerge-webrsync".
>
> Is there any way to ... fix? work-around? ... this idiocy?
>
>
>
> Background info :
>
> The old cable modem suddenly stopped working. The ISP sent out a clone
> of a Cisco DPC2316 ( Technicolor ), complete with hacked / trashed /
> closed firmware. So I returned the rented cable modem ( bought my own ).
> The Technicolor clone was using a built-in Java based "???" to
> redirect / filter at the modem.
>
> Switched to Google Public DNS. Doesn't effect the ?hijack technique?.
>
> The "uMatrix/uBlock Origin" plugins ( Firefox/ Palemoon ) stop the
> ?hijack technique? in the web browser. Always shows up as an ipv4
> address, embedded in a "frame", that resolves to "*-charter-*".
>
>
>

[gentoo-user] ISP extorsion - how to negate / get around?

[Corbin Bird]

Have a serious problem, might cost me any Internet access.

My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum"

1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity.

2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me
to update their records ( for sale-of purposes ). This includes phone (
all ), SSN, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers.

3 # : the ISP attempting to force agreement to "no communications
allowed with the FCC". Also is attempting to force agreement to
"Arbitration with the ISP as the Arbiter" for all complaints.

4 # : billing is only online now. Not allowed to see a Account
Statement, or receive any "receipt for payment" until I comply with ISP
demands.

5 # : external e-mail clients ( Thunderbird, Claws-Mail, etc. ) are now
starting to have problems. ISP solution -> must use their web based
e-mail app only ( only works with Windoze, surprise! ).

6 # : ISP is starting to filter customers web access. The ISP is
deciding what sites customers are allowed to see. ( look up the practice
called "ransom" ).

7 # : no other broadband ISP in the regional area. No alternatives.

They are using a hijack technique that I don't know the name of,
attempting to force compliance.

NOTE : The ?hijack technique? will corrupt the portage trees if you use
"emerge-webrsync".

Is there any way to ... fix? work-around? ... this idiocy?



Background info :

The old cable modem suddenly stopped working. The ISP sent out a clone
of a Cisco DPC2316 ( Technicolor ), complete with hacked / trashed /
closed firmware. So I returned the rented cable modem ( bought my own ).
The Technicolor clone was using a built-in Java based "???" to
redirect / filter at the modem.

Switched to Google Public DNS. Doesn't effect the ?hijack technique?.

The "uMatrix/uBlock Origin" plugins ( Firefox/ Palemoon ) stop the
?hijack technique? in the web browser. Always shows up as an ipv4
address, embedded in a "frame", that resolves to "*-charter-*".

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing TIFF3 Library

[thelma]

On 03/09/2017 10:24 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I'm trying to install hylafax-6.0.4 from overlay, current hylafaxplus-5.5.5 
> in portage is buggy.  My modem will not even dial the number. Trying to send 
> a fax system CPU goes 100% with process:
> 
> usr/sbin/faxq -q /var/spool/fax -D
> 
> My older system after upgrade is still running "hylafax-6.0.3" and no 
> problems sending/receiving faxes.
> 
> When I was trying to install hylafax-6.0.4 it is complaining about 
> /usr/include/tiff3
> 
> Missing TIFF Library.

How to modify an euild so it will find tiff-3?

The ebuild had:
local my_conf="
...
   --with-LIBTIFF=\"-ltiff -ljpeg -lz\"

I change it to:
--with-LIBTIFF=\"-l:/usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 -ljpeg -lz\"

but I still get:
  Found tiffio.h version 20161119
  Found libtiff version 4.0

Incompatible TIFF Library.

--
Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Alexander Kapshuk
 wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Adam Carter  wrote:
>> I have one command that dumps out a number of lines of output, and i want to
>> have another command run multiple times taking a single line contents as its
>> argument(s) each time. From what i understand of xargs it takes all the
>> piped input and runs a command once with each of the piped inputs as another
>> argument.
>>
>> Eg. say i want to run ethtool against each active interface dumped out by;
>> ifconfig | grep ^[a-zA-Z] | awk '{print $1}'
>>
>> Tnx
>>
>
> As an alternative solution, you could generate the commands to run like so:
>
> ifconfig | awk -F: '$1 ~ /^[a-zA-z]/ { print "ethtool", $1 }'
>
> And then, either pipe the output of the command line above to sh, or
> do this within the awk's print statement like so:
>
> ifconfig | awk -F: '$1 ~ /^[a-zA-z]/ { print "ethtool", $1 | "sh" }'
>
> Or like so:
>
> ifconfig | awk -F: '$1 ~ /^[a-zA-z]/ { system("ethtool", $1) }'

The last comand line should not have a comma in args to system():

ifconfig | awk -F: '$1 ~ /^[a-zA-z]/ { system("ethtool " $1) }'

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Adam Carter  wrote:
> I have one command that dumps out a number of lines of output, and i want to
> have another command run multiple times taking a single line contents as its
> argument(s) each time. From what i understand of xargs it takes all the
> piped input and runs a command once with each of the piped inputs as another
> argument.
>
> Eg. say i want to run ethtool against each active interface dumped out by;
> ifconfig | grep ^[a-zA-Z] | awk '{print $1}'
>
> Tnx
>

As an alternative solution, you could generate the commands to run like so:

ifconfig | awk -F: '$1 ~ /^[a-zA-z]/ { print "ethtool", $1 }'

And then, either pipe the output of the command line above to sh, or
do this within the awk's print statement like so:

ifconfig | awk -F: '$1 ~ /^[a-zA-z]/ { print "ethtool", $1 | "sh" }'

Or like so:

ifconfig | awk -F: '$1 ~ /^[a-zA-z]/ { system("ethtool", $1) }'