Re: udev 173 requires linux 3.1 to eject dvd via button?

2011-09-09 Thread Ilya Kaliman
Linux kernel mirror is now available on github: https://github.com/torvalds/linux Best, Ilya. On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Nathan Coulson wrote: >> from https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25609 >> Comment by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Sunday, 21 August 2011, 15:52 GMT-4 >>

Re: The "write" of util-linux-2.20 not work.

2011-09-06 Thread Ilya Kaliman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:58:16 +0800 > xinglp wrote: > >> try 'write andy' > > andy:~$ write andy > write: andy is not logged in > andy:~$ > > That's if I do it in a roxterm window. If I close xorg and work at the > login prompt it says: > > and

Re: All packages tarball for 6.8?

2011-06-27 Thread Ilya Kaliman
Hi! It seems like here they have 6.8: ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs/lfs-packages/ Best, Ilya. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > The mirrors listed at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html#packages have > one-big-tarball versions of the packages and patches for

Re: Bootsplash for LFS 6.8

2011-06-15 Thread Ilya Kaliman
I personally didn't try to install splash screen packages, but if you'll tell the specific problems and the package you tried, maybe someone will be able to help. PS I think it will be better if you address this question to blfs-support. Best, Ilya. On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Ankur Agraw

Next kernel is 3.0

2011-05-30 Thread Ilya Kaliman
It seems like Linus has decided to call next kernel version Linux-3.0 [1]. Though there are absolutely no big changes (see [1]) it looks like a good candidate for a "major change" in LFS-7.0. I think it's better to stick with kernel 2.6 for LFS 6.9 and to wait while things will settle down a little

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-18 Thread Ilya Kaliman
> Also, last time I checked (23.1.1), GNU Emacs was 32-bit only, and > there were no plans of porting it to x86_64. Which I found unusual, > given that it is one of the most ported pieces of software in the world. On my pure x86_64 system latest emacs 23.3 compiles and works perfectly fine. Maybe

Re: Use SHA-2 by default instead of MD5 for password encrypting

2010-12-29 Thread Ilya Kaliman
, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Ilya Kaliman wrote: >> By the way here is a nice article about why general purpose hash >> functions are bad for hashing passwords: >> >> http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ > I get the idea: You want use to use Blowfish for encryp

Re: Use SHA-2 by default instead of MD5 for password encrypting

2010-12-28 Thread Ilya Kaliman
By the way here is a nice article about why general purpose hash functions are bad for hashing passwords: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ Ilya. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > William Immendorf wrote: >> Let's face it: MD5, while it might be more than

Re: IANA-Etc links broken (for now)

2010-11-23 Thread Ilya Kaliman
These files are used by api functions like getservbyname(3) and others to map service name to its port/protocol (see services(5) and protocols(5) for more details). In fact iana-etc package just gets these files from here (or uses old ones supplied with the package): http://www.iana.org/assignment