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

2017-03-10 Thread 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

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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,

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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 > >

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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. > >

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing TIFF3 Library

2017-03-10 Thread 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 >

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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

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

2017-03-10 Thread 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