[gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no diagonal bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an eight too closely. At the time I said I'd found a font editor called nafe, which had allowed me to delete the offending bar. At the time I was prepared to

[gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

2015-12-02 Thread lee
Hi, is there a way to configure bind so that the names of local hosts, i. e. the ones bind is authoritative for, can be resolved without a connection to the internet? I don't like it at all that when the internet connection goes out, no name resolution at all is possible. Since the information a

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

2015-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/12/2015 21:37, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to configure bind so that the names of local hosts, > i. e. the ones bind is authoritative for, can be resolved without a > connection to the internet? > > I don't like it at all that when the internet connection goes out, no > name resolut

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

2015-12-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/12/2015 21:37, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to configure bind so that the names of local hosts, >> i. e. the ones bind is authoritative for, can be resolved without a >> connection to the internet? I am surprised to hear that

[gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already?

2015-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I consider buying a new machine for my office in december. The intel core-i7-6xxx look interesting to me, although the plain CPU performance isn't that much better than my plain old i7-2600 when I look at cpunbenchmark.net I assume the overall package makes more difference: DDR4-RAM, etc etc Do