On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:25:37PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Has anyone switched to NPTL and noticed a speed difference? If so,
> what seems faster? Has anyone run across any packages that don't work
> well with NPTL? What about the practical difference between + and -
> nptlonly?
I switched a whil
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:47:12 +0100, Jarry wrote:
Hi,
Today I found my web-server does not respond to http-requests.
All other services kept running, only apache (2.2.16) just died.
For the first time, in nearly year...
In /var/log/apache2/error_log I have found these messages:
Zac wrote on gentoo-dev:
>> Current portage supports it? Or is their a new version coming which I
>> would need?
>
>It's been supported in stable portage since portage-2.1.9.24 stabilized
>in November/December 2010:
>
>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346819
>http://git.overlays.gentoo.or
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:13:31 +0300
Timur Aydin wrote:
> On 10/13/12 19:15, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> > We can only know seeing the code. Timur, this is the little test I
> > made which creates 5 threads and runs them for 1 minute. In my case,
> > `ps x` shows only 1 PID, care to give it a try?
There's already a tool to do exactly that: checkpath (see man 8
runscript), for example "checkpath -d -m 0770 -o
: /var/run/heartbeat, but apart from that, your fix seems
correct.
Regards,
Luis
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Hello,
I'm using Courier-IMAP, Courier-Auth, Postfix+SASL and storing users in
a PostgreSQL database. My database is on another machine so I don't
think I should have to install dev-db/postgresql but I must for some
reason.
I can see that the packages need postgresql
lithium ~ # emerge -pv cour
>> Why not? Gentoo is aimed at more experienced users, Linux novices are
>> already amply catered for by other distros. I would never recommend
>> Gentoo to a new Linux user, in the same way that I wouldn't recommend
>> a Ferrari to a learner driver.
I don't necessarily agree. I've recommended
List,
I'm using Samba to share with Windows and am using the %m macro as the share name so that each Windows computer sees
only one share with it's name to use. This works great for almost every machine on my network: other Sambas, Win2K,
Win2K3, WinXP home but not this one XPPro. I've tried
List,
I'm using Samba to share with Windows and am using the %m macro as the share name so that each Windows computer sees
only one share with it's name to use. This works great for almost every machine on my network: other Sambas, Win2K,
Win2K3, WinXP home but not this one XPPro. I've tried
List,
Is at /dev/sda1. Does anyone know if I need this? Where will I put /boot? At /dev/sda2? Will GRUB work OK? I'm way
nervous about blasting this thing away and replacing Dell's 65M partition with my /boot and stuffs. Help.
/djb
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List,
I connect to my server with jEdit over SFTP using key pairs. It works perfectly except that it makes many
connections to the server and they don't die when I close jEdit. After a session of developing my server will have 100s
of ssh/sftp-subsystem process left over. They will stay the
Mark wrote:
Has anyone set up a Hylafax server along with a mail system on the same
server? I'm trying to get a recommendation on a not-too-difficult to set
up mail package that works well with Hylafax. Sendmail vs. Postfix vs. ???
I've done this Hylafax+Postfix, pretty good.
Googled for the i
On 23/10/17 14:56, Stroller wrote:
> There are quite granular settings to allow anyone but friends to see or post
> on your timeline - I was quite impressed by how much privacy appears to be
> available to users. I suspect this allows you more privacy from you family
> and colleagues than it doe
On 28/10/17 15:52, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:58:13 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:52:54 -
>> > Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> >
>>> > > I have a problem with emerge for a long time.
>>> > > Sometimes I need to (re-)emerge many packages like in an
>>>
On 28/10/17 23:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>> emerge -u world
>> > A will be emerged with options ...
>> > B will be emerged with options ...
>> > C will be emerged with options ...
>> > D is blocked by E
>> > F will be emerged with options ...
>> > G is blocked by H
>> > Giving up, too many circul
On 29/10/17 11:21, Dale wrote:
> Power failures aren't as often the past few years anyway. I could
> almost make it without a UPS BUT I do like having that extra
> protection. Mine has some serious surge protection in it plus
> brownout/over voltage protection/warning as well. While I have a fai
On 29/10/17 19:11, Mick wrote:
> BTW, perhaps in UK cities general and unpredicted power cuts are relatively
> rare and brownouts don't occur often. Out in the sticks the infrastructure
> is
> so neglected power cuts and brown outs can be a weekly occurrence. I just
> bought yet another UPS t
On 30/10/17 23:28, Mick wrote:
> The regulator does not hold the budget, central government departments do and
> the regulator cannot (or will not) control abnormal profits privatised
> utilities are making year after year. However, the regulator will engage
> enthusiastically in the a theatre
On 30/10/17 23:42, Rich Freeman wrote:
> If the big banks thought that investing for the long term would make
> them more money they would do it. They have no loyalty to the
> companies they invest in. If they can invest in a company one month,
> and make more money by investing in a competitor t
On 30/10/17 23:32, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Often there are elements of a traditionally public service that aren't
> natural monopolies which can be outsourced for a benefit. Electrical
> generation is often a case of that, but as I suggested you do need to
> ensure you're paying to have extra capaci
On 31/10/17 00:09, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote:
>
> the issue is with plugging one thing, into another, into another and
> then into the wall, most outlet strips are cheap, they don't use proper
> sockets and often have/develop a significant resistance, which creates a
> hazard etc.
On 31/10/17 23:29, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:33:53 +
> Wols Lists wrote:
>
>> In the UK at least also, we have ring mains. These are rated at 30 Amps,
>> from which you can take a 13 Amp feed from any socket. Once you start
>> taking power ove
On 01/11/17 20:25, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 10/29/2017 08:15 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> Come to think of it, I'm going to look back and see if there was an
>> update around the time I started having problems. Maybe there was a
>> regression of some sort.
>>
>
> So I bought a large SSD, and cloned to
On 03/11/17 16:54, Lasse Pouru wrote:
I have a bunch of old laptops that large builds such as texlive and ghc fail
on, I'm assuming because of insufficient memory and disk space. If I've
understood correctly, with Distcc I could build everything on my main desktop
PC and have the binaries tran
On 03/11/17 18:02, Rich Freeman wrote:
My understanding is that the preprocessing is all done on the target
machine, and the remote workers take all their marching orders from
there. The contents of CFLAGS, libraries, and so on don't matter on
the workers. You can build a program that requires
On 22/11/17 14:11, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
>
> You won't get build failures or dependency problems, portage is built to
> handle emerging multiple packages that do not depend on each other
> simultaneously.
> it will not ever build a dependency and the main program at the same time.
Are you sur
On 23/11/17 18:45, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 23/11/17 19:11, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to recommend a Linux distribution to someone who needs an as
>> simple Linux distribution as possible.
>> Since I am going to help that person from time to time, it should be
>> as similar
On 24/11/17 15:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Is there any guidance on setting up fetchmail on Gentoo to operate in this
> way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long out of date
> and others don't help much, so I still don't know what to add to /etc/
> conf.d/fetchmail, nor whe
On 26/11/17 18:46, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> Does NeoMutt perhaps suppress dupes based on message ID? Thunderbird
> obviously does not.
Thunderbird has an add-on that will delete duplicates. I make regular
use of it :-(
Cheers,
Wol
On 27/11/17 22:30, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need to expand two bcache fronted 4xdisk btrfs raid 10's - this
> requires purchasing 4 drives (and one system does not have room for two
> more drives) so I am trying to see if using raid 5 is an option
>
> I have been trying to find if
On 01/12/17 17:14, Rich Freeman wrote:
> You could run btrfs over md-raid, but other than the snapshots I think
> this loses a lot of the benefit of btrfs in the first place. You are
> vulnerable to the write hole,
The write hole is now "fixed".
In quotes because, although journalling has now be
On 05/12/17 10:09, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> I assume using a ramdisk would help with this? I wouldn't want to do a
>> > SSD as I assume it would excessively wear by doing compiles.
> I use tmpfs, like this:
>
> $ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab
> tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs noatime,uid=portage,gid=por
On 05/12/17 13:07, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> (My new system when I get it working maxes out at 64GB ram so I'll have
>> > 256GB swap and (currently) 16GB ram)
> I've halved my original 4GB swap to 2GB since it never seems to be used. I'm
> not brave enough to do away with it altogether though.
I'
On 05/12/17 21:56, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:09:56 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> $ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab
>> tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs
>> noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775 0 0
>> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs
>> noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777
On 06/12/17 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> - contents of /tmp are not expected to survive the invocation of the
> program that created them
> - contents of /var/tmp are not expected to survive a reboot
That sounds completely wrong, actually.
The contents of /var/tmp are expected to survive a syste
On 06/12/17 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Those guidelines you mention about what /tmp and /var/tmp are "for" are
> probably from the FHS. On the whole, I tend to agree they are good ideas
> but the proper wording is more like this (from memory, being far too
> lazy after a day's work to actually l
On 07/12/17 09:52, Richard Bradfield wrote:
> I did also investigate USB3 external enclosures, they're pretty
> fast these days.
AARRGGH !!!
If you're using mdadm, DO NOT TOUCH USB WITH A BARGE POLE !!!
I don't know the details, but I gather the problems are very similar to
the timeout probl
On 07/12/17 14:53, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> When I configured my kernel the other day, I discovered network block
> devices as an option. My PC has a hotswap bay[0]. Problem solved. :) Then I
> can do zpool replace with the drive-to-be-replaced still in the pool, which
> improves resilver read d
On 07/12/17 20:17, Richard Bradfield wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 06:35:16PM +, Wols Lists wrote:
>> On 07/12/17 09:52, Richard Bradfield wrote:
>>> I did also investigate USB3 external enclosures, they're pretty
>>> fast these days.
>>
>> AAR
On 07/12/17 21:37, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Ooooh, I just came up with another good reason for raidz over mirror:
> I don't encrypt my drives because it doesn't hold sensitive stuff. (AFAIK
> native ZFS encryption is available in Oracle ZFS, so it might eventually
> come to the Linux world).
>
On 07/12/17 22:35, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> (Oh - and md raid-5/6 also mix data and parity, so the same holds true
>> > there.)
> Ok, wasn’t aware of that. I thought I read in a ZFS article that this were a
> special thing.
Say you've got a four-drive raid-6, it'll be something like
data1
On 09/12/17 16:58, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, December 8, 2017 12:48:45 AM CET Wols Lists wrote:
>> On 07/12/17 22:35, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>>>> (Oh - and md raid-5/6 also mix data and parity, so the same holds true
>>>>
>>>>> there.)
&g
On 09/12/17 23:36, Rich Freeman wrote:
> you instead compute 5 sets of parity so that now you have 9 sets of
> data that can tolerate the loss of any 5, then throw away the sets
> containing the original 4 sets of data and store the remaining 5 sets
> of parity data across the 5 drives. You can st
On 09/12/17 12:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I'm all in favour of Lennart-bashing, but let's keep the bashing to what
> he's responsible for.
As far as I can tell, the most egregious thing he's responsible for is
for wanting a well-designed system that works!
Face it, linux is a hodge-podge of thi
On 10/12/17 15:07, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> > Is that how ZFS works?
>> >
> I doubt it, hence why I wrote "most parity RAID systems seem to
> operate just as you describe."
So the OP needs to be aware that, if his file is smaller than the chunk
size, then it *will* be recoverable from a disk pulled
On 10/12/17 10:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've no idea how good systemd is. It's not been through the normal
> process of choice and selection that other successful packages have. It
> was forced on people. But being forced to have a binary system log,
> being forced (so I have heard) to have a
On 10/12/17 23:08, Walter Dnes wrote:
Oddly enough, although the details are different, that passage I've
quoted pretty accurately describes how I feel about Gnome ...:-)
I can't find it right now on Google, but I vaguely remember that
Lennart asked the Gnome people to make systemd a hard d
On 11/12/17 22:29, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> I don't want a binary logging daemon either: that means having to learn
>> > a special purpose utility to be able to read its logs, and, in general,
>> > not being able to read that log from a remote machine.
> "journalctl" is just the same as "less /var/
On 12/12/17 10:15, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> That means every write has to be encrypted 4 times, whereas using
> encryption in the filesystem means it only has to be done once. I tried
> setting encrypted BTRFS this way and there was a significant performance
> hit. I'm seriously considering going bac
On 12/12/17 18:55, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> You seem to know systemd reasonably well - maybe you've got it
> installed and you're using it. Please tell me whether my suspicion
> above (that systemd builds stuff into the system that is likely to be
> superfluous to a user, and possibly forces its us
On 13/12/17 00:02, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> and Windows has this infuriating habit of
>> > ignoring my command to shutdown, instead suspending to disk. As my
>> > Windows partitions automount in linux, this causes the mount to fail,
>> > and systemd won't boot the system. So I spend/waste half an ho
On 13/12/17 15:17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:01:38 +, Wols Lists wrote:
>
>>> Can't you change this with fstab settings. I see a similar behaviour
>>> when trying t mount NFS shares that aren't there, but it gives up
>>> tr
On 15/12/17 01:16, Marc Joliet wrote:
> [ Just to be clear: autofs is a Linux kernel feature, systemd just exposes it
> in an easy to use way. That is, BTW, a theme with systemd. ]
Likewise, cgroups. I believe Lennart is regularly "blamed" for this, but
it's been in the kernel a looonngg time, l
On 18/12/17 13:56, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 12/17/2017 09:05 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet
(bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it insists
that I tell it a domain name with at least tw
On 19/12/17 13:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one
> hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing,
> because it guarantees that every hostname is globally unique (so if I
> copy/paste a URL to you, it goes the sa
On 20/12/17 02:12, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:09:30 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:33:08 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
It's not about political correctness but perspective. The good guys
intervene, the baddies interfere. It's like the diff
On 29/12/17 16:13, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> The only "correct" place for papersize nowadays is in whatever the user
> is using to get something to print. And there are lots of those.
> Something like CUPS ought to make it all so much easier but I find CUPS
> just makes my life insanely difficult. So
On 30/12/17 12:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> [2nd random OT factoid]
> It's the "world series" because the first sponsor was a newspaper "News
> of the World" iirc (plus some typical US bravado)
Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally
perfectly legit.
As usual, however
On 30/12/17 18:43, Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
Recently there was a kernel update and I don't want to reconfigure it
from scratch. In the official documentation, it told me to move the old
.config into the new kernel source tree and type
make oldconfig
This is where I'm confused; which .config file (
On 30/12/17 19:11, Mick wrote:
to remove the symlink pointing to the previous kernel,
to create a new symlink to the new kernel sources directory,
Or, to use the supplied gentoo tools ...
eselect kernel list
eselect kernel set n
to see what kernels the system thinks are available, and to cha
On 31/12/17 10:34, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:26:26 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>>> Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally
>>> perfectly legit.
>>
>> I don't agree. In that case it should have been called the New York
>> World Series.
>
> If
On 02/01/18 19:26, Stroller wrote:
>
>> On 2 Jan 2018, at 11:54, Kruglov Sergey wrote:
>>
>> Now I have gentoo-sources-4.14.8-r1 installed.
>> After "emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world" command
>> emerge installs old kernel in NS (after first update 4.12.12, after seco
On 02/01/18 22:58, Adam Carter wrote:
> AMD coder's patch to disable the new code (to avoid the performance hit)
> where he states the issue doesnt exist on AMD processors;
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2
Read LWN, specifically the links to the people who covered the bug.
It's a flaw in spec
On 03/01/18 21:21, Stroller wrote:
> Meanwhile, I've seen security vulnerabilities go unfixed for literally weeks
> in the bug tracker, so I don't see the significance of a vulnerability an
> attacker is unlikely to be able to reach. The sites I visit do not make me
> fear my kernel being attack
On 03/01/18 21:39, Stroller wrote:
>> What this completely misses, is that gentoo-sources merely DOWNLOADS THE
>> > LATEST KERNEL SOURCE. So updating gentoo-sources every time does nothing
>> > to change the kernel you are running.
> I don't know why you think I missed that.
Because you're bangin
On 03/01/18 22:09, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 04/01/2018 00:02, Stroller wrote:
>>
>>> On 3 Jan 2018, at 21:55, Wols Lists wrote:
>>>
>>> What would be nice, would be if "emerge --depclean" had the smarts to
>>> recognise that /usr/src/lin
On 08/01/18 13:52, Rich Freeman wrote:
> There is also a lot of discussion on lkml about the right fix. We
> might very well end up seeing both AMD- and Intel-specific fixes with
> conditional logic. The two vendors don't really seem to be
> coordinating on this. Intel is pushing patches that ap
On 12/01/18 15:39, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I usually also include a check to ensure that some file/directory
>> > exists which I expect to be on the drive, which prevents the backup
>> > script from dumping a full backup into your mountpoint if it isn't
>> > mounted (possibly on a filesystem with i
On 18/01/18 18:45, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 18/01/18 20:33, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> Do those External Storage work with Linux (USB3)?
>> I don't want to install any ventor-software, I just want one that plugs
>> and play.
>>
>> Any recommendations?
>
> My USB 3 stick works fine, at i
On 18/01/18 21:22, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote:
> if you're going with external drives use laptop drives, or build a JBOD
> with good cooling. in any case, monitor drive temperatures, in my
> experiance anything above 100F is asking for a short life, bellow or at
> 100F drives new a
On 20/01/18 01:11, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 01/19/2018 05:25 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> The strange part is that on the same box I created a new "user" and
>> Libreoffice works just fine.
>> But it will not work when I log in.
>>
>> I've deleted the folder setting. /
On 23/01/18 17:35, Rich Freeman wrote:
Wonderful ... just finished a complete reload of Gentoo. Now have to
redo it again ...
... the mistake? I used ext2/ext3 for the fs.
Abandoning ext4 over retpolines/etc seems a bit drastic. My guess is
that there is a bug in the latest kernel that will ge
On 25/01/18 10:54, Dan Johansson wrote:
> But when I boot without the USB-key inserted I always "lands" in the
> Built-in EFI Shell - NO sign of GRUB.
>
> Any suggestions where I have gone wrong?
Well, in your position I wouldn't be trying to load grub. I've got a new
mobo (with a Ryzen 3 :-) but
On 02/02/18 00:08, Jack wrote:
>> "eg", which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example".
>
> A non-native speaker of English, or a non-native speaker of Latin?
And Latin's descendants (which are mutually comprehensible) are actually
the most widely spoken first language in Europe.
On 02/02/18 17:28, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 02/02/2018 01:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
We could use Perl.
I see your Perl and raise you Lisp.
Or the "language to replace all languages", PL/1
Cheers,
Wol
On 03/02/18 08:43, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Having so many words derived via French from Latin, English is also a
> romance language to some extent. I know it's officially classed as a
> Germanic language, but I can't see why. There seems to be no Teutonic
> influence to speak of. Few words in co
On 08/02/18 20:56, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 02/08/2018 10:11 AM, gevisz wrote:
And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp on tpmfs instead of just
/var/tmp/portage
Is it ok?
I don't know about the context of emerging, but I do know about the
context of /var/tmp being volatile.
More specifical
On 09/02/18 00:02, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
/var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash
recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs that
reply on that*defined* behaviour to recover after a
On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote:
> role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of /usr
> (that's why it's called /usr, it was user data in early unix). The
Actually no, not at all. /usr is not short for USeR, it's an acronym for
User System Resources, which is why it c
On 10/02/18 20:06, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kai Krakow wrote:
Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:38:56 + schrieb Wols Lists:
On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote:
role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of
/usr (that's why it's calle
On 26/02/18 06:33, R0b0t1 wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:13 AM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 10:07 PM, wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> whenever I close a TAB of Firefox the playback of video or/and audio
>>> ist stopped for seconds. After that it starts, where it has stopped
>>> before.
On 27/02/18 17:43, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> The --changed-deps flag, on the other hand, is a crutch for when
> developers make in-place edits to ebuilds and don't make the necessary
> revision bump.
I believe the --changed-deps flag is ALSO for USERS who want to change
settings on their computer.
On 01/03/18 00:26, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Like everybody around here I prefer a FOSS implementation,
> and would trust it more due to the "many eyes" philosophy, but I'd
> stop short of saying that the Windows software firewall is
> particularly insecure.
Bear in mind that "many eyes" only works wh
Are you sure it isn't you? :)
>
I see it too. Intermediate mail-servers are prone to assume mailing
lists are spam.
I had great trouble with yahoo and a mailing list - it kept filing all
the ham (from mailing lists) as spam, and left all the spam (mostly
yahoo advertising crap :-( in the inbox.
Cheers,
Wol
On 01/03/18 10:33, Roger Cahn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For my birthday (!) my children want to offer me a multifunction
> printer, copier.
>
> I ask you for an idea which one they could buy.
>
> For example: Multifonction A3 HP Officejet Pro 7612
>
> -gentoo amd64 compatible
>
> -inkjet color (4color
On 01/03/18 17:41, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:29:39 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:10:58 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
For my birthday (!) my children want to offer me a multifunction
printer, copier.
I ask you for an idea which o
On 01/03/18 15:43, Grant Edwards wrote:
> If I cared about scanning, I'd be very tempted to spend enough money
> to get a network-connected printer that just e-mails me a PDF document
> or writes it to a network file server.
Make sure you check the specs. Either it'll be expensive, or it probably
On 01/03/18 22:08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:56:15 +, Wols Lists wrote:
>
>>> If I cared about scanning, I'd be very tempted to spend enough money
>>> to get a network-connected printer that just e-mails me a PDF document
>>>
On 01/03/18 22:08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:56:15 +, Wols Lists wrote:
>
>>> If I cared about scanning, I'd be very tempted to spend enough money
>>> to get a network-connected printer that just e-mails me a PDF document
>>>
On 17/03/18 13:53, Fast Turtle wrote:
> So ask
> youself, why in hell they needed more then 4M? I could see 8M being a
> selling point but 64M - hell the first computer I build only had 16M
> (that was a 386 system).
Because buying new 8Mb chips is expensive, and 64Mb is cheaper?
Seriously, newer
On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote:
180402 Dale wrote:
After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not one.
Something I was taught years ago somewhere and still do.
I only put one after a comma tho.
That is correct professional secretarial style, which I always follow too
On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence on a
comma before the "and" before the last item in a list, even though it gets in
the way and introduces ambiguity - the infamous Oxford comma.
But that's a whole new can of worms.
On 05/04/18 12:23, Mick wrote:
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:57:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote:
On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote:
180402 Dale wrote:
After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not
one.
Some
On 05/04/18 17:54, Rich Freeman wrote:
> I
> haven't checked recently but the last time I looked at it even my
> current Ryzen CPU doesn't have a microcode fix out yet for lfence.
Is lfence a meltdown problem? Because afaik Ryzen doesn't need a fix for
meltdown, it's not vulnerable.
As for Spectr
On 05/04/18 18:53, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:12:06 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote:
>
>>> But again this comes down to another moan of mine - why is "The Queen's
>>> English&quo
On 05/04/18 18:12, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote:
>> > On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> > > Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence
>>> > > on
>&g
On 08/04/2018 00:18, Marc Joliet wrote:
Hi list
I have a bit of a weird issue. I recently acquired a used server (Fujitsu
Primergy TX140 S1) via a friend of mine. I have Gentoo installed on it now
and overall it works fine save for one perplexing issue [0]: The bootloader
hangs when booting wi
On 19/04/18 16:28, John Blinka wrote:
> My sympathies to the OP. I fought against dark terminal backgrounds
> for years (paper is white and ink is black, right?), tweaked all the
> colors through every mechanism I knew of, and never did arrive at a
> satisfactory result.
Paper is reflective, and
On 03/05/18 16:22, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:58:44 BST Mick wrote:
>
>> Is there anything I can do with the existing laptop and its limited
>> resources to speed up chromium's emerge?
>
> All I can suggest is to build a package in a chroot on a speedier machine and
> tra
On 09/05/18 19:18, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> As mentioned, I wonder why gcc/clang do not yet support this
> horribly slow but spectre-safe option. It can't be that hard to
> implement in the actual code-producing back-end.
Given the response by the gcc team to security people complaining that
gcc was
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