Re: CUPS and AVAHI (bloatware)

I don't like the idea of splitting packages, but I get weirded out when ghostscript (which DOES have a no_x11 variant) winds up pulling in dbus. I guess there's no escaping freedesktop.org. khm

Re: New question, do I really need a AAAA record?

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 08:18:31PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > Sorry, I think I didn't formulate the question well. What I meant was, > do I need also a static ipv6 to be considered by big smtp servers as a > legal sender? > No. khm

Re: gmail and hotmail blocking mail sent from my IP

You're the last person anyone wants email advice from, Rupert. khm

Re: How do you do "family remote support"?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 05:22:29PM -0400, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Never heard of whatismyip.org? > Sent from ProtonMail Mobile Never heard of NAT? Sent from QMail Stationary

Re: Current FreeBSD looking to switch to OpenBSD

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 09:20:49PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > I dual boot now between Win7 and FreeBSD > > on I lapdog I have 5 os on it and use grub2 to boot them > > How is this helpful? I don't know. Some people just like talking about their computers to strangers, I guess. khm

Re: spamd and outlook.com

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:40:42PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:21:48 -0700 > Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote: > > > Greylisting is a hack, an abuse of a side-effect. Most such > > approaches have deleterious side effects. This particul

Re: spamd and outlook.com

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 04:02:20PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2017-04-21, Craig Skinner wrote: > > Hi Markus, > > > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:25:14 +0200 Markus Rosjat wrote: > >> so if you have spamd in place in greylisting mode and you have > >> customers that

Re: Sony Vaio VPCSA

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:22:42PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Why exactly a laptop which only takes one disk would ship in RAID mode, > no idea, but I've seen it a number of times. Many of the laptops in this series could take up to four custom SSDs, which would be presented as a

Re: Looking for replacement of thinkpad x201

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Florian Ermisch wrote: > With the x260 support for a 16gb RAM stick (now DDR4) in the single slot is > now official > but it's not clear if you can have both a 2.5" > (7mm thick) drive and a m.2/NVMe SSD. > The option of having an m.2/_SATA_ SSD sure > is

Re: thinkpad X11 wheel emulation for middle button

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 07:01:45PM +0200, Μάνος Πιτσιδιανάκης wrote: > I want to enable wheel emulation for the middle button in my Thinkpad > (T420s) I have this in my .xsession: xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel Emulation" 1 xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel