Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2016-11-09 Thread Alex McWhirter
I'm not sure if anything new is a good choice, particularly because of a lack of current GPU / WiFi drivers. I usually pick up something about a year or two old on refurb \ second hand market. Dell's business line (latitude / precision) have treated me well in the past. Just stick with Intel or

Re: Hardware recommendations for compact 1U firewall

2016-12-14 Thread Alex McWhirter
I've had good luck with Sun Netra X1's. I use them for pretty much every firewall / router I need. I prefer the 500mhz model as it seems to be able to handle a full 100mbit link on both nics simultaneously.

Re: mprotect W^X violation and JDK

2017-01-28 Thread Alex McWhirter
Java doesn't work with write xor execute and this is the kernels way of letting you know. Java still runs because the partition is mounted with wxallowed, but the kernel still prints the error to let you know that Java isn't respecting a security feature.

Re: mprotect W^X violation and JDK

2017-01-28 Thread Alex McWhirter
On Jan 28, 2017 2:02 PM, Christian Schulte wrote: Am 01/28/17 um 10:04 schrieb Alex McWhirter: > Java doesn't work with write xor execute and this is the kernels way of > letting you know. Java still runs because the partition is mounted with > wxallowed, but the kerne

Re: OT? - ownCloud vs NextCloud

2017-02-23 Thread Alex McWhirter
For what it's worth I run nextcloud on openbsd. I tend not to use ports for my web applications, rather i usually install them by hand. It works fine for me on -stable.

Re: Sony Vaio VPCSA

2017-03-29 Thread Alex McWhirter
Sounds like the drive / controller isn't supported. Do you have one of the weird models with the dual 128GB SSD's in RAID0, which appears to be a single 256GB SSD? Do you know what controller your unit has in it?