On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:22:05 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> I don't think of myself as a 'normal user', but I still don't
> appreciate it when a distribution goes out of its way to arbitrarily
> modify and break what application developers spent years designing and
> writing.
SELinux does not
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:42:08 AM Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 04:38:27 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> But the hardest part is that these things are application specific and
> >> ther
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 02:49:29 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > SELinux does not 'go out of its way' to 'break' anything; rather, SELinux
> > enforces a deny by default 'need to access' policy.
On Thursday, January 26, 2012 06:43:55 PM Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 1.5Mbps is not faster than 40Mbps. There's nothing hidden in the way
> they advertise speeds.
Speed != bandwidth.
That '40Mb/s' connection is surely massively oversubscribed, whereas the
1.5Mb/s DS1 won't be (the tariff here sta
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 09:18:08 AM Alan McKay wrote:
> The basic problem is that I know how much data is there to begin with but I
> don't know how much room it took up on the tape so I have no idea how much
> room is left on the tape.
What I would do is use the '-' special filename to pi
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 04:00:06 PM Alan McKay wrote:
> The GZIP environment variable is working really well. It tells me the
> compression ratio and even send it to STDERR for me so I can easily
> separate that from the gtar output.
Cool. That's useful information.
_
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 03:17:32 PM cent...@iotti.biz wrote:
> I'm looking for latest centosplus kernel source rpm , which should be
> kernel-2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.centos.plus.src.rpm to date.
> Maybe someone could provide a link to it?
Hmm, shouldn't it be:
http://vault.centos.org/6.2/centosp
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 04:35:29 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> If today's and
> yesterday's version of a language have to be different they were
> probably both wrong.
Like Python2.x versus 3.x? Or even 2.4 versus 2.6? Plone, for one, is still
bundling older Python due to incompatibilities wit
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 03:57:36 PM cent...@iotti.biz wrote:
> Indeed, I should have written "Maybe someone could provide a WORKING link to
> it?".
Now working at:
http://vault.centos.org/6.2/centosplus/Source/SPackages/kernel-2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.centos.plus.src.rpm
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On Feb 9, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote:
entire ip block went out.
when I called datacenter they told me the router was under attack
and I
was like 'uh oh' and told them to just shut off my computer I would be
there to fix it. They did not believe me.
An hour later I was there and dele
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 03:30:56 PM Craig Thompson wrote:
> Does anyone have an available script or list of commands for removing most or
> all of these "generally unused" directories, packages or whatever they are?
Ok, here's a two-step process you can try:
1.) rpm -qf /usr/lib/name/of/f
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 04:00:45 PM Craig Thompson wrote:
> Hardly kidding. But then again, this is early April isn't it? Oh, wait...
>
> To "cleanly uninstall unused software," one would need a list of what
> software is ON the system which is unused.
And one would need to define 'u
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 04:13:23 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> There are indeed some packages that have a ridiculous set of dependencies.
> I can't remember what it was - it's been months, but I wanted to install
> some command line tool, and it wanted gnome installed.
This is one area 'bui
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 09:52:54 AM Volker Poplawski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm booting Centos6 from a usb 3.0 stick.
>
> This works fine as long as the usb-stick is connected to a usb 2.0 port.
> Once I plug the the usb-stick into a blue usb 3.0 port centos fails on
> mounting the root f
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 03:58:10 PM Wuxi Ixuw wrote:
> Ok,
> I've made up my mind to dive and learn ... so to learn the right way
> like what professional do ... what shall I do?
First, try not to top post.
Second, download the CentOS 6.2 installation media and install it on your own
har
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 05:35:32 PM Wuxi Ixuw wrote:
> Ok, I've found many versions from it, one for 700 MB and others for a
> DVD, which one I should get?
While I specifically stated the installation media, you should get both the
DVD1 and DVD2; specifically, assuming a 32-bit system (yo
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 07:25:09 PM Rob Kampen wrote:
> On 02/24/2012 12:25 PM, Wuxi Ixuw wrote:
> > Is it advised to install on a virtual machine like vmware or a real
> > computer?
> If you are going to use CentOS 6 - as a VM host it must be installed on
> a 64 bit architecture!
I think
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 07:37:08 PM Miguel Medalha wrote:
> "I use Linux servers and a pfsense firewall to protect the network.
> Works like a charm, with amazing stability and reliability."
pfsense for a newbie?
A CentOS-like firewall would be ClearOS (formerly Clarkconnect) and again wo
On Friday, March 02, 2012 04:18:48 PM Digimer wrote:
> 10 (one-zero) == a mirror of two stripped arrays. You can lose up to two
> drives, so long as they are both from the same strip set.
You really don't want a mirror of two striped arrays; you want a striped array
of mirrors.
A striped array o
On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 01:17:15 PM Wessel van der Aart wrote:
> so i add user_xattr and acl to my fstab options but then it fails to mount.
> checking the error in dmesg just gives me ¨hfs: unable to parse mount
> options¨.
> does anyone know what´s going on and what i should do to make this
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:52:02 AM Les Mikesell wrote:
> Yes, part of the power savings are deceptive - they only kick in when
> the CPUs are idle and your users would be one of the rare cases that
> peg them for long intervals. I think this is getting better in the
> current generation but
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:45:26 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> CentOS 6. T-bird 3.1.18
>
> Is there *ANY* way to search message on message *CONTENT*, not header? I
> used to do that all the time
>
> mark "or maybe I'll dump t-bird"
Hmm.
[root@migration ~]# repoquery thunderbir
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:59:31 AM Wessel van der Aart wrote:
> Hi Lamar,
>
> i tried their free version today.
> at first it did look promising but as soon i was to perform actions on
> files with acl's on them the whole system came down hard and leaving my
> external HDD corrupted.
> afte
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:37:45 PM Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3/8/2012 1:44 AM Jonathan Vomacka spake the following:
> > ROFL
> When you let all the magic smoke out of a server it will usually stop
> working... ;)
I try to procure ones with redundant magic smoke bottles.
Seriously, though, I
On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 05:06:13 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> It's not such a big deal for desktops, but you can get small low power
> systems if you look around - or just use a laptop that will sleep when
> you close the lid.
FWIW, Aleutia (www.aleutia.com) makes some nice really low power units
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:37:30 PM Ross Walker wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > I live in the same sort of world, just on a smaller scale, and my biggest
> > power consumer is storage, not compute, but I thoroughly understand Mark's
> &g
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 01:15:59 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> Usually your whole building is designed around a certain amount of
> heat load and data centers designed a few years back are probably
> already maxed out due to the earlier rounds of density increases. So
> you will need at least more
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 01:38:33 PM Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3/8/2012 9:59 AM Lamar Owen spake the following:
> > I have hydrogen alarms available, but has anyone seen an H2S alarm?
> http://www.allgasdetectors.com/hydrogensulfidedetectors.shtml
> http://www.generalmonito
On Friday, March 09, 2012 04:33:30 AM John R Pierce wrote:
> gaming uses the graphics card for rendering, yes. by 'rendering', I
> was thinking more of production rendering, like Pixar does when making a
> movie, using clusters of 100s of multicore nodes to render frames.
The same engine that
On Saturday, March 10, 2012 10:49:46 AM Phil Savoie wrote:
> ---> Package xulrunner.i686 0:1.9.2.26-2.el6.centos will be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libmozjs.so for package:
> gxine-0.5.905-1.el6.rf.i686
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: gxine-0.5.905-1.el6.rf.i686 (@r
On Saturday, March 10, 2012 01:45:19 PM Robert Spangler wrote:
> drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 4096 Mar 10 13:35 temp
...
> temp $ lt 208*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 Oct 30 02:16 208-109-248-33-mv
>
> How is this possible? If it is possible what am I missing or not
> understanding? Thnx.
You hav
On Mar 10, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Keith wrote:
> On 11/03/12 02:49, Phil Savoie wrote:
>> ---> Package xulrunner.i686 0:1.9.2.26-2.el6.centos will be updated
>> --> Processing Dependency: libmozjs.so for package:
>> gxine-0.5.905-1.el6.rf.i686
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Package:
On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:07:58 am Edward Diener wrote:
> I boot from the installation DVD, with an already existing CentOS 5.5
> system on my hard disks. I have separate boot, root, and home
> partitions. I have moved the boot partition and now I need to
> re-initialize grub from rescue mo
On Thursday, August 05, 2010 05:26:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote:
> Often used, by children in insults such as doodie-head.
Perhaps the phrase 'doodie thread' should be coined.
"Don't feed the trolls if you don't want a doodie thread." Dun G. Hill,
author, in 'I feel a draught'
On Thursday, August 12, 2010 04:55:29 am Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Back long time ago, we have an old file MS W2K (NTFS) server where due
> no admin was available to manage it, the server would get power off
> when the office closed, and auto power on again in the morning. That
> thing happened for y
On Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:54:32 am Matt wrote:
> So I guess another question here. Is it better to my SATA interface
> in Serial ATA mode or AUTO in BIOS? The motherboard calls it sda when
> in serial ata mode but hda when in auto mode. Will there be a
> performance difference?
It depends
> My 'work' is at home (dialup). The local library is only good for
> about 1.5mbits/sec (about 150kbytes/sec). I don't have enough free
> disk space for a full repo on either my laptop or my desktop.
While not currently supported by the main CentOS project (AFAIK), there are
presto repos out t
On Friday, August 27, 2010 02:14:52 pm Benjamin Franz wrote:
> There are just a *lot* of ways for a theoretically 'wiped' drive to not
> actually be fully wiped.
>
> As you said: Take a sledge hammer to it.
obFridayHumor
www.harddrivedestruction.com
The videos are worth the look, especially
h
On Thursday, September 16, 2010 03:37:23 am John R Pierce wrote:
> On 09/16/10 12:16 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> > Yet the server vendors ship servers, with server chassis, hardware
> > RAID, redundant power supplies, etc& offer Core i7 options. How does
> > that work?
>
> low end servers, i guess
On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 01:42:05 pm Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:16 -0400 CentOS mailing list
> wrote:
> > What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in
> > the same machine you can do "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" ort you can use
> > clonezil
On Thursday, September 16, 2010 01:43:19 pm Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > When a server simply has to have minimal downtime, LVM is worth its LoC in
> > gold for this use.
> What do you mean by "no downtime"?
> What exactly do you do?
> Is it d
On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 01:25:11 pm Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> You are a bit mistaken. The raid controller does not "copy data around as it
> sees fit". It stores data on each disk in chunk-size'ed pieces. It then
> stripes this across all drives giving you a stripe-size'ed piece of chunk
On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:13:52 pm Matt wrote:
> Is there a way to copy it to a hardware RAID 1 array of two
> drives in a similiar way? If so what not too expensive 2 port
> hardware raid controller do you reccommend and how do you do it?
3ware 9500S; can be had used and NOS (New Old S
On Tuesday, October 05, 2010 09:18:09 am kim.gabriel...@get2net.dk wrote:
> does anybody know about a duplex (color) printer with linux support?
Virtually any of the HP's with Postscript work fine, as long as you have or can
get a .ppd for it and it's real Postscript. I have an old Color LaserJe
On Sunday, October 10, 2010 05:56:47 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> frankly, the wiki page on downloading from source:
> http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls
> seems just a touch on the hysterical side.
For certain uses and certain software stacks from source is the only sane
On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 06:56:27 pm Phil Schaffner wrote:
> Ryan Manikowski wrote on 10/11/2010 07:49 PM:
> > http://dotancohen.com/howto/portknocking.html
> Somehow I suspect the OP may have seen that one. :-D
Yeah, nothing quite like being directed to a howto you wrote yourself (getting
f
On Monday, October 18, 2010 09:25:41 pm Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on
> Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second
> freeze) every 5-10 seconds. "top" showed flush-253:0
> process at the moment of the freeze.
[snip]
> He a
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:51:02 pm RedShift wrote:
> On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
> > Could a bad controller or bad RAM cause Hard Drive sector
> > errors?
> >
>
> Neither bad RAM or a bad controllor can physically damage a hard drive. A bad
> controller will not cause realloc
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:25:17 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> I think the point of SMART is to be aware of the physical conditions
> regardless of the logical remapping. At some point you run out of
> places to relocate.
I had a 1.5TB SATA drive pop up an error in Fedora 13 the other day; S
>From: Keith Roberts
>On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> Might want to check the power supply as well. Bad/flakey
>> power can indeed case damage to the drive surface; been
>> there, done that, have two Maxtor 250GB drives with
>> scribbled servo data to
On Nov 6, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Both connections have router on the 192.168.0.1
> address.
>
> Although I need to stay connected to the wireless router, can I still
> access the address 192.168.0.1 on the wired interface?
What you want is a NAT to take, say, 192.168.1.0/24 and
On Nov 6, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 20:51, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> But at the end you would access 192.168.1.1 and it would get
>> translated to 192.168.0.1 at the eth0 point and wouldn't interfere
>> with the wlan0 version of the 192
On Nov 6, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Bob McConnell wrote:
But I still wonder if you are unique in finding this address
collision,
or do others also have the same problem? If it is widespread, then it
should be solved by the people managing those devices.
Nah; one of the prominent use cases for NAT
On Thursday, November 11, 2010 09:57:58 am Timothy Murphy wrote:
> John R. Dennison wrote:
>
> > I think it's a fair bet to say it will be at least 4-6 weeks
> > out.
>
> When it comes, will I be able to upgrade by "sudo yum update"?
Given that the upstream sources from which CentOS 5 was origi
On Monday, November 08, 2010 04:34:00 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Both those conditions are met in this use case, however the machine in
> question is on two networks:
>
> |--Network1--|--Network2--|
> ACB
>
> A: router on the wireless network
> B: router on the wired network
On Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:20:47 am Jerry Geis wrote:
> So I used to grep for eth0 and eth1 do get the module names from
> modprobe.conf.
> How do I get that information in RHEL 6 since it doesnt seem to be there.
> Thanks, (just trying to prepare)
I would think it would work like Fedo
On Sunday, November 14, 2010 08:28:40 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 00:08, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > I'll have to admit to some curiosity in how to do this myself; I might lab
> > it up one day and see, when I have more time to spend on it.
> Thank you L
On Sunday, November 28, 2010 10:39:22 am Bob McConnell wrote:
> Maybe not, but the risks should be evaluated on a case by case basis. I
> don't believe it can be considered a panacea either. Even with SE in
> full protected mode, a simple SQL injection flaw can still expose much
> of the sensiti
On Sunday, November 28, 2010 10:37:29 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> But that means you were running software with vulnerabilities or a user would
> not be able to become root anyway. Is that due to not being up to date (i.e.
> would normal, non-SELinux measures have been enough), or was this before a
On Sunday, November 28, 2010 05:40:41 pm brett mm wrote:
> In reality, I am not at all sure that a quantum leap in complexity
> adds to security at all. Any proper use of old-school group
> permissions can give as finely-grained a security policy as you would
> like.
No, it won't.
Suppose I'm run
On Monday, November 29, 2010 11:29:31 am Les Mikesell wrote:
> Agreed, but not everyone has time to do both - or to learn lots of
> distribution-specific details in mixed environments. My opinion is that
> doing the simple stuff first is a win. And that works the same on
> systems that don't i
On Monday, November 29, 2010 12:38:20 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> [Most thrid party apps qualify as]
> Pretty much anything that needs to write files outside of the home
> directory of the owning user. Certainly anything that uses apache with
> its own data store.
Which is the prime target for SEL
On Monday, November 29, 2010 02:24:14 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > My opinion is that I'm not going to run third party apps that break in that
> > way, and I'm going to let the developers know why.
>
> That's fine for you. When you&#x
On Monday, November 29, 2010 11:02:59 pm cpol...@surewest.net wrote:
> Your enthusiasm for SELinux seems tied conceptually to a workstation
> running the set of applications that come with the distribution.
> Nothing wrong with that.
I have used a Linux as my primary desktop for 13 years; so, yeah
On Monday, November 29, 2010 09:35:44 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> Not so much a problem - I'm just saying that you should do the simple things
> that have always worked first, then add SELinux if you want.
First, I hope everyone else is enjoying the thread as much as I; I always like
to see diverge
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 05:12:17 am John Doe wrote:
> From: Les Mikesell
> > why are you putting blind faith in the SELinux code?
> Because it comes from the NSA!
> The backdoor experts... ;P
Also the SCIF experts.
SCIFs are used by people other than intelligence agencies and in areas ot
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:21:46 am Les Mikesell wrote:
> I'm not talking about a particular app. The thing I want quantified is
> what it will cost to train some number of people to be able to
> troubleshoot any problem that SELinux might cause with any app, given
> potential changes in
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:38:24 am m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > 2.) Be able to tell my os 'PDF reader can only do X to these files, and no
> > others. Browser cannot read ~/Documents, and can only write in
> > ~/.mozilla. Flash plugin can
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 09:46:03 am Jerry Geis wrote:
> However its not. centos boots but there are journal issues and
> everything is mounted read-only.
Can you get log snippets showing why the journal had issues?
> Any ideas why this doesnt work or how I can keep my smaller image and
>
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:18:26 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> But [what it will cost to train some number of people to be able to
> troubleshoot any problem that SELinux might cause with any app, given
> potential changes in updates to both the distribution provided stuff and
> the 3rd party cod
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 02:04:12 pm Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 10:42 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >
> > It boils down to balancing 'it breaks my app that I can't or won't fix'
> > against 'you've been pwned!'
>
> A
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 01:55:11 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Reality check time: selinux is a *tiny* portion of the entire Linux
> market, though growing.
Reality check: IDC analysts have estimated Red Hat's share of the paid
commercial Linux market as 62%[1], [2], with Red Hat estimating
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 02:13:17 pm Robert Heller wrote:
> Right. clonezilla is much more than dd. I would suspect that
> clonezilla is a bundling of sfdisk, dump/restore, and grub-install, or
> something link that.
According to the clonezilla website, dd is one of the supported methods:
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 01:10:14 pm Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> Even if the two disks have the same manufacturer and manufacturer part
> number, different firmware revisions can fail to boot after
> dd if=/dev/spinpoint.partnumber.fwrev1 of=/dev/spinpoint.partnumber.fwrev2
> Been there, done
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 03:49:57 pm Stephen Harris wrote:
> Reality check: how many of those installs are RedHat OOB installs with
> default options?
No idea. How many aren't default OOB?
For that matter, how many CentOS installs are out there are set:
1.) OOB, SELinux enforcing/targeted;
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 03:31:44 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > CA should know better, and if they are targeting RHEL commercially they
> > should be supporting the default RHEL configuration.
> Right. So, hey, do you have the rights to call CA and l
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 01:22:53 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Right - change *local* policy for every iteration.
On the servers I would of course put policy into revision control and build it
into our customization package (I've built RPM's for a long time). Then
consistent contexts can g
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 04:52:42 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> I thought there was a security API in the kernel that was designed
> specifically _not_ to lock it to an implementation.
Yes; Linux Security Modules (LSM). According to the wikipedia.org page on said
subject, the current 'officia
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 04:53:38 pm Bob McConnell wrote:
> That one's easy, don't ever install the plugin, or anything else from
> Adobe. Second step, set NoScript to block everything and everyone. If
> any site has content that requires either of those, I will never see it.
> That's their
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 06:04:56 pm John R Pierce wrote:
> for instance, all our java-ware can run just fine in
> /home/$APPUSER/$APPNAME and run as a regular user. if we want to put
> it in /opt/$COMPANY/$APP then we might have to play with selinux
> defaults some, since /opt isn't par
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:04:58 am Johan Scheepers wrote:
> Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3
> please.
The Fluendo MP3 decode plugin for gstreamer is no-cost, and is fully licensed
for MP3 playback. It should work for any gstreamer-enabled player.
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 02:01:35 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Looks like the fsck bug has been stomped! I did a 960G drive this morning,
> and I'm 90% of the way through a 1.4T drive, both of which have *lots* of
> files and hard links, and it has *not* hung at 70.1%, and is running at
> re
On Sunday, December 05, 2010 04:29:47 pm Niki Kovacs wrote:
> I've been following this thread, and I'm wondering: why bother with NTFS
> in the first place?
It's also useful for MAC OS X and Linux data interchange. While there is a
ext2 module for OS X, and there is HFS+ filesystem support for
On Monday, December 06, 2010 02:02:20 pm John R Pierce wrote:
> On 12/06/10 8:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > It's also useful for MAC OS X and Linux data interchange.
> ugh. disk file systems were really not intended for data interchange,
> especially not NTFS. use the netw
On Monday, December 06, 2010 02:41:46 pm John R Pierce wrote:
> On 12/06/10 11:12 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > In a dual-boot scenario?
>
> ugh. dual booting is a pain in the derriere. use a VM if its for
> software testing or whatever.
Some of us really do need to dual-
On Monday, December 06, 2010 02:31:23 pm Boris Epstein wrote:
> So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now,
> or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no
> mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with
> that?
Karanbir has soli
On Monday, December 06, 2010 03:50:49 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> But you could easily run Linux under Virtualbox or vmware. While still
> running OS X.
I'd rather not do that, as performance does suffer to a degree, and Linux is my
primary environment, not my secondary one. Further, you then add
On Monday, December 06, 2010 03:14:44 pm Eero Volotinen wrote:
> 2010/12/6 Lamar Owen :
> > Karanbir has solicited help on the -devel list; I'm sure there are things
> > that need doing that perhaps you could help with..
> Can you point to the direct message? I might h
On Sunday, December 05, 2010 06:50:44 am Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Seeing as IPV4 is near it's end of life
> (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm),
> I'm curios as who know whether everyone is ready for the changeover to
> IPV6?
>
> Is anyone using it in pr
On Monday, December 06, 2010 03:54:15 pm Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am attempting to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on my new Mac Mini. I boot to
> the CD and when I get to selecting where I am installing from (local cd, hard
> disk, ftp, etc) I select Local CD and it cannot find a
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 05:29:09 am Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
> > No, the downside is that each address used will be exposed to the world.
> False. That is *NOT* a downside.
In your opinion. Others hold a different opinion. Whil
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:32:32 am Tom H wrote:
> Is 172.16.10.72 a private address of yours or of your ISP?
More to the point; do you have a route to his address?
Blackhole routing makes the best firewall in the world; you can't even attempt
to hack an address to which your autonomous sy
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:26:30 pm David Sommerseth wrote:
> You mean something along the way ... "Oh, this Bob uses 172.16.10.72 ...
> let's run some traceroutes towards his gateway. That could be
> 64.57.176.18, right? Then we can just setup a direct route from us to
> his 172.16.10.0/2
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:39:28 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> > How many devices? You mean exceeding the number of available inside a
> > IPv6 subnet? I do hope you're kidding ... as for a /64 subnet we're
> > talking about 4.294.967.296 addresses doubled 32 times.
>
> Is that what people will
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 03:31:15 pm Lamar Owen wrote:
> It will depend upon your provider if you get PA addresses;
Minor edit: 'The prefix size of your address block with depend upon your
provider, if you get PA addresses by default from your provider;"
Sorry
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:37:02 pm Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 03:11 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> > The even more horrendous problem, which is so pervasive it affects
> > everyone, is the insistence on asymmetric connections. Even when
> > Australia does get this
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 06:29:44 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> I think you've missed the point that 'all that stuff' (being traditional unix
> security mechanisms) are not all that insecure. It is only when you get them
> wrong that you need to fall back on selinux as a safety net. And if you
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:03:26 am Scott Robbins wrote:
> I remember in an effort to get a life outside tech, I joined a mailing
> list for something else. I hadn't realized how most people top post,
> don't trim, and still use aol.
Lots of corporate people top post to retain the threa
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:28:38 am L A Hurst wrote:
> From: Lamar Owen
> >Alright, pray tell how I, a desktop Linux user, can, without VM's and
> >without having to switch users, protect my files from a PDF attack
> >through Adobe Reader?
>
> Backups.
I
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:39:50 am Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 12/8/2010 9:21 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > Alright, pray tell how I, a desktop Linux user, can, without VM's and
> > without having to switch users, protect my files from a PDF attack through
> > Ad
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