Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-23 Thread Matt Causey
When I asked about content filtering a couple of months ago, everyone said Squid was rubbish. Squid is a solid product. But it has the same benefit as most other OSS products - flexibility. Flexibility means we can build a really nifty self-healing scalable solutions - or we can make

[gentoo-user] Removing Packages with Portage

2009-05-04 Thread Matt Causey
Hello all! I am a Gentoo n00b. I have question about what the 'expected behaviour' is/should be when removing packages under Gentoo package management. So I read this document: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?style=printablefull=1#book_part2 And it says, to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Packages with Portage

2009-05-04 Thread Matt Causey
Out of tree kernel modules are a maintenance pain in the ass, and cause severely non-obvious problems like this. Every time you upgrade your kernel, you must rebuild the out-of-tree modules, and you do that by re-running emerge madwifi-ng. This builds a new modules that matches the currently

[gentoo-user] Firefox without gcc?

2009-05-14 Thread Matt Causey
Hello! Another Gentoo newb question. I'm attempting a customized ROOT=/blah gentoo root filesystem, where we can build a linux client image w/out the build chain and other dependencies. Our needs are too intensive for ulibc, but we're shooting for a sub-250 MB graphical operating environment.

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-12 Thread Matt Causey
On 12 Jun 2009, at 06:46, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: What do you want to do with your accesspoint. You will need a bridge to a wired network if you want your ap attached to that wired network. This is quite usual though... Without a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2008-12-31 Thread Matt Causey
You wanna post the PDF? I'd be curious to see if it crashes kpdf on my system... -- Matt On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently stole me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with the manual. I downloaded it off the Motorola website and was

Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

2008-12-31 Thread Matt Causey
: Matt Causey wrote: You wanna post the PDF? I'd be curious to see if it crashes kpdf on my system... -- Matt On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently stole me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with the manual. I downloaded

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Matt Causey
I am total Gentoo newb :D but it seems kind of fundamental to the concept of this distribution that its users are going to make themselves aware of the details of system updates. Short of reading ridiculous amounts of doco...folks should be reading the output of the emerge commands to learn

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp and re-exec of init in log file

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Causey
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Michael George geo...@mutualdata.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:02:38AM +, Stroller wrote: It might be helpful to post the EXACT error messages. I doubt if I'm able to help, but it seems to me that posting without them may be one of those

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Matt Causey
1. Put all your mirror sites in the exception list. This can get tedious as some ebuilds list many mirrors for sources or 2. wget using ftp or 3. set up a proxy The easiest is #2 by far Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to make it use ftp? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

2009-01-10 Thread Matt Causey
I think you would do well to setup a squid proxy and block outbound traffic for the affected machines. We've had great success with squid in our environment. This gives you a tremendous amount of flexibility on your access control, and it means you don't have to be concerned about which

[gentoo-user] serio / atkbd / PS/2 Strangeness with Serial port adapter

2009-08-05 Thread Matt Causey
Hello! Apologies if this really is't the right forum (suggestions on the right forum would be welcome). Our company presently operates a large number of thin client terminals running LTSP, with a shared NFS root filesystem, and all that stuff. To remove the external runtime dependencies from the