On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:35 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
> Hello, Gentoo.
>
> I've recently found a pair of headphones with a microphone. I've no idea
> where it came from, but I'd like to try it out. I've got no manual for
> it. I'm not even sure it's functional.
>
> It has a red (stereo) 3.5mm
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:51 AM Caveman Al Toraboran
wrote:
>
> hi. context:
>
> 1. tinfoil hat is on.
> 2. i feel disrespected when someone does things to
>my stuff without getting my approval.
> 3. vps admin is not trusty and their sys admin may
>read my emails, and laugh at me!
> 4. w
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:37 PM Caveman Al Toraboran
wrote:
>
> hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that
> know the name of the process that is trying to access
> it, and based on its name, it links it to a file?
Yes, and that's used pretty extensively in busybox. Symlinks named
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 6:45 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>
>
> At a customer we still have to keep up an ancient Suse 6.x VM, it has a
> legacy and proprietary software in it which has to be kept alive.
>
> No way to move that sw to another OS, don't ask ...
>
Any chance to just attach to the
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 1:47 PM, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> short question:
>
> I want to access my Raspberry Pi Zero W via Ethernet-over-USB
> via ssh.
> On the Raspberry I have to include a module called g_ether.
> After rebooting I can see a new interface whith an IP assigned
> via ifconfig.
> On my PC
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Hubert Hauser wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want to learn from scratch securing Linux and ethical hacking. Should I
> do as the most people so install Kali Linux on virtual machine or install
> Gentoo Hardened with Pentoo overlay on my PC? I heard a lot of negative
> opi
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Poison BL. wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:29 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>
>> As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption
>> of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the
>> renderer once.
>
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:29 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
> As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption
> of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the
> renderer once.
The catch with that goal is that a) rendering a PDF is likely as much of a
ram and disk
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:50 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > sorry for being offtopic somehow...
> >
>
> If it's in portage (and in most cases even if it isn't) I don't
> suppose it's really offtopic.
>
> > I am looking for a documentation for the KRIT
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2017-05-02 09:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> >> miles per hour, internet almost always won lately. :-)
>
> > But tapes also hold a lot more than they did in 1981
>
> And so do trucks :-(
>
> --
> Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 9:11 PM, lee wrote:
>
> "Poison BL." writes:
> > Half petabyte datasets aren't really something I'd personally *ever*
trust
> > ftp with in the first place.
>
> Why not? (12GB are nowhere close to half a petabyte ...)
Ah...
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, lee wrote:
> Mick writes:
>
> > On Tuesday 25 Apr 2017 16:45:37 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On 25/04/2017 16:29, lee wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement
> >> > which is at least as good as FTP?
> >> >
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:29 AM, lee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement
> which is at least as good as FTP?
>
> I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and
> missing features.
>
>
> --
> "Didn't work" is an error.
>
>
The
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
> I have a new computer, assembled piece by piece, and the cpu is
> supposed to be an intel i5-7600 LGA1151. The original box says "7th
> generation".
>
> However:
>
> $ gcc -### -E - -march=native 2>&1 | sed -r '/cc1/!d;s/(")|(^.* - )//g'
>
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:36 PM, wrote:
> Or take one of the old PS from an old case and solder the tip to 12V
> line is better solution?
>
One point that should be noted on this idea... as long as it cooperates, it
should last pretty much forever, but your draw at the wall will likely be
much,
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Kai Krakow wrote:
> Am Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:14:23 -0500
> schrieb "Poison BL." :
> > I actually see both sides of it... as nice as it is to have a chance
> > to recover the information from between the last backup and the death
> >
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
> All this raises an interesting question: How much effort is it
> reasonable to expect a user to undertake just to use one of these
> drives? I mean it's going to be very tough to argue that it should
> require more than "plug in -> add partiti
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 02/13/2017 10:17 AM, Poison BL. wrote:
> >
> > I've had more than one spinning rust drive fail hard over the years as
> > well, though yes, you do usually have some chance of recovery from
> > those. Gamb
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 13 Feb 2017 13:17:14 Poison BL. wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> > > On 02/12/2017 02:40 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
> > > > So does anyone have any evidence of a current gener
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 02/12/2017 02:40 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
> > So does anyone have any evidence of a current generation SSD lasting
> > more than 20 days?
> >
>
> I have tried various SSDs (multiple brands and generations) over the
> last maybe five years an
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
> Dear god, I think I have come in contact with one of the suckiest things
> in the universe!
>
> I mean first there are supermassive black holes... OK... Then there's
> Crucial MX300 SSDs, and in a distant third there's Justin Beiber.
>
> I mea
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Alan McKinnon
wrote:
> On 30/01/2017 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've
> > learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them
> > occasionally (when I have some spare time and I know they're id
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:11 AM, wrote:
> Corbin Bird [16-12-31 16:52]:
> >
> > On 12/31/2016 09:23 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > and the novice asked:
> > > "Is there the Tao in rpm?"
> > > The master replied: "...ues, there is the Tao in rpm."
> > > "And is there the Ta
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I have "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330 CPU @ 3.00GHz" on a physical host
> machine. I'd like to emulate a cpu with the "movbe" instruction set.
> Doing some testing, I tried, as root stuff like...
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu Broadwel
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Mick wrote:
> I am looking at a Mint 18 installation and noticed when running netstat
> that
> all tcp connections are showing not the PC name, but "Knoppix":.
>
> What might be the cause of this? The installation was performed using a
> Mint
> LiveCD iso.
> --
>
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Several years ago I set up an apache2 web server to host a development site,
> and I had quite a struggle to get it all set up. Now I want to do it again,
> but I decided to try nginx instead. I've followed the instructions h
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
>
>> The problem was sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r9, which UEFI never ran.
>>
>> The fix was to get rid of grub altogether and instead use
>> sys-boot/gummiboot.
>> Not only was it fully functional, it was a welcome relief not to have to
>> grapple
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:32 AM, wrote:
> Poison BL. wrote :
>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
>> >> What is in your grub.conf? Have y
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
>> What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an
>> initramfs and letting it drop you to its rescue shell so that you can
>> investigate?
>
> Grub.cfg looks all right
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:38 AM, lee wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when updating a guest in an LXC, emerging python pointed out a problem
>> with a broken /dev/shm. So I found out how to mount /dev/shm in the
>> container and updated.
>>
>> However,
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Poison BL. wrote:
>
> So it was prompted by a perceived security issue, but I would happily sit
> down with any of the DPOs involved in that to hear just how that little
> bandaid fixes any of the real security issues involved ;)
>
> --
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 08 Aug 2015 18:02:00 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 16:00:29 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > Yep, I find it infuriating that by default all distros seem to go to
> > > great effort to hide as much information about the
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Fernando Rodriguez <
frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 04, 2015 12:06:51 PM Derek Ellison wrote:
> > I have two HDD in a UEFI system. Windows 8 on one and Gentoo on the
> other.
> > Currently I have to update the clock everytime I boot to
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>
> My task is to enable a (remote) server to run VMs via qemu/KVM.
>
> The server is configured to set up its eth0 via openrc but this isn't
> enough to run the VMs network.
>
> I tried macvtap but something didn't work, either libvirt
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Joseph wrote:
> I've noticed that on the newer distribution (binary, xubuntu fedora) the
> network connection is automatic whenever someone connects the cable or if
> cable is disconnected it switches to wife.
> Is it the function of the new "systemd" or it is a ne
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> after noticing huge downloads circa ever 2 minutes naturally I wanted to
> stop that. :) After a reboot followed by startx which opened icewm I
> issued the command
> sudo ngrep -t -d net0 | tee system-ngrep_log.txt
> in a xter
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Been on rkhunter 1.4.2 for a while, no changes made to its config file,
> been running nightly for years without these warnings...
>
> I recently did some Gentoo updates after almost 2 months of no updates
> (was out of town), and
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Mick wrote:
> This is what I see when I plugged in two memory modules:
> ===
> *-memory
> description: System Memory
> physical id: 2f
> slot: System board or motherboard
>
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Joseph wrote:
> Yes, alsamixer -c0
> But I want "0" to be default. When I type "alsamixer" it should
> automatically pop us as default. Which file do I modify?
>
> --
> Joseph
>
I believe that's a side effect of alsa-lib being set to something
other than card 0 a
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, German wrote:
> That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that
> gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a
> closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation
> CD and cle
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:24 PM, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with
>
> sysctl vm.block_dump=1
>
> one can enable the logging of IO to the harddisk/flashmem/...
> into dmesg.
> The logs report the block number of the file in question...
> but not the filename itsself.
>
> Is there any other way as examine
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup: very new install of gentoo
>
> I want to install emacs-w3m without most of the dependencies:
>
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.17 0 KiB
> [ebuild N ] virtual/w3m-0 0 KiB
> [ebuil
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox?
>
>
There are advantages to both, really, since firefox-bin uses a
pre-built executable (with a pre-defined set of compile-time options),
while firefox builds from s
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:31 AM, wrote:
> Matti Nykyri [14-12-17 15:00]:
>> > On Dec 17, 2014, at 14:13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:52:44 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>> >
>> Yes, thats it: First download all stuff THEN start compiling.
>>
>> If I were you,
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:34 AM, wrote:
> James [14-09-30 14:24]:
>> Meino,
>>
>>
>> Make sure your system time (hwclock) is properly set upon bootup.
>> Since you are running on an embedded hardware board, I'd look at
>> those docs and find a forum as to the specifics of how the hardware
>> clo
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Kerin Millar
> wrote:
>> On 29/09/2014 16:10, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>>
>
> I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are
> unaccountably large.
>
>>
>> You might consider ma
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Joseph wrote:
> How to close virtualbox machine (windows xp) to a file?
> I need to transfer it to another box.
>
> I made some notes but they are old so I'm not sure if they are applicable or
> there is an easier way.
>
> ===
> 1) Shut down the virtual ma
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi
wrote:
> Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I
> had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and
> it is very great.
> I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too.
> Before ju
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:27:09 +
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:13:28 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote:
>>
>> > > Use 'Reply-To-List' function (or equivalent - or worst case,
>> > > delete my direct email manually yourself) in yo
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 17.03.2014 20:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld:
>
>> I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work
>> with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from
>> disk-snapshots. No info if it's possible to
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2/27/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Johansson wrote:
>>
>> On 26.02.2014 22:24, Poison BL. wrote:
>>>
>>> When I search FHANDLE in menuconfig I get:
>>>
>>>│ Symbol: FHANDLE [=y]
>>>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Lee wrote:
> Hi, I always need to reconnect my laptop pcmcia wireless card to my WAP when
> awaking from suspend. It would be nice if I could add two commands, ifconfig
> and dhpcd, to the script which controls awaking from suspend. Anyone know
> which file I can e
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is for those of use who to choose to roll our kernels by hand...
>
> So, am I missing something?
>
> Given the most recent gentoo news item:
>
>> # eselect news read 10
>> 2014-02-25-udev-upgrade
>> Title
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:55 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> The 21/02/14, hasufell wrote:
>
>> So you are saying compiling a minimal kernel to minimize exposure to
>> subsystem bugs is only obscurity? (I really wonder what Greg would say
>> to this)
>
> Developers made the kernel to rely on modules
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:07:09AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> >
> >> We don't do error handling. We don't even try and deal with it at the
> >> point it occurred, we just chuc
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 20 Feb 2014 01:22:24 eroen wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:39:51 -0800, walt wrote:
> > > I just spotted that phrase in the sourceforge newsletter:
> > >
> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/
> > >
> > > and it seems to
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Grant wrote:
> I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if
> anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last
> paragraph below. This is basically my plan for setting up a bunch of
> systems (laptops) in an office which are
An alternative to booting to external media, etc, would be a bind
mount of / and /usr on separate temporary mount points, then dumping
the data between them, leaving the existing system chugging along. A
re-mount of the current /usr in -o ro mode might not be a terrible
idea in that case. I had a g
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