[gentoo-user] Homeboy (Gentoo) Cloud storage

Hello, Background. One thing that intrigues me is that one storage server can intellegently store files from a variety of hardware devices. I like this concept, but, many of my devices are not common retail systems. Nor do I like the idea of my ...

Message posted on the May 23rd, 2013 - 1:10 PM ET

Comparison of free picture/photo editing software

We can’t say it enough: it isn’t necessary to invest in commercial software to successfully edit your photos! In this article we will look at free programs and trial versions which respond to the basic needs of novice, and in some cases, even ...

Review published on the November 17th, 2009 - 9:19 AM ET

[gentoo-user] How can I run apache as non-root user?

Hi Gentoo community, I modified apache config to have it running on non-private port 8080. I restarted apache and verified that it is really listening on port 8080 (netstat). But when I check all running apache processes for owners, I see there is ...

Message posted on the May 22nd, 2013 - 5:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Openssl 1.0.1c/d have serious issues?

Hello all, 1. dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1c is current stable version 2. Reliable sources on the postfix list claim c (and d) versions have 'serious' issues: On 2013-05-22 12:19 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: 1.0.1c has some known issues, you should use ...

Message posted on the May 22nd, 2013 - 2:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

Hello, I am trying to get hostname address resolution on my LAN and VPN with one serious problem: I have two "networks" eg. 10.1.1.0 and 10.2.2.0 which are representing local address space for LAN (10.1.1.0/8) and VPN address space ...

Message posted on the May 22nd, 2013 - 12:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] IPTables - Going Stateless

Hello Everyone, We recently moved our stateful firewall inside, and would like to strip down the firewall at our router connected to the outside world. The problem I am experiencing is getting things to work properly without connection tracking. I ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2013 - 11:10 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

Howdy, I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue. When I leave Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connection to the internet. If I open Firefox, it works fine. I can ping in a Konsole too. In Seamonkey tho, not even a ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 7:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] howto on setting up rootfs on ZFS?

I used the existing wiki to get ZFS up and running on my system a few weeks ago and after getting familiar with it, beating it up a bit, and breaking it in as many different ways as I could envision, I think I'm happy with it. I'd now like to use ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 2:00 PM ET

[PATCHv12 0/4] zswap: compressed swap caching

This is the latest version of the zswap patchset for compressed swap caching. This is submitted for merging into linux-next and inclusion in v3.11. New in this Version: Acks from Rik Code cleanup/improvements from Bob, Dan, and Mel (see changelog ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 12:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Lightweight & Simple Proxy that supports upstream authentication

Hello, I'm looking for a simple HTTP+FTP proxy that supports upstream authentication. The reason is that we (that is, my employer) have a server that requires Internet access for its setup, but for some reason* my employer does not want to give ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 12:40 AM ET

[gentoo-user] problems merging python packages

Hi people! I don't know how to merge the package pycrypto, I get always this error. How do I solve this problem that portage can merge python packages without any problems?! Tamer here the log: ACCESS DENIED open_wr: ...

Message posted on the May 19th, 2013 - 11:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Booting LiveCD iso from hard drive with GRUB legacy

Hi All, Is there a way of achieving this? Regards, Mick

Message posted on the May 18th, 2013 - 4:20 AM ET

[ 000/102] 3.9.3-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.9.3 release. There are 102 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be made ...

Message posted on the May 17th, 2013 - 6:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] boot-time message about nic firmware patch

The last 4 lines from dmesg... [ 4.299946] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2) [ 4.312766] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down [ 4.312784] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down [ 6.019910] r8169 ...

Message posted on the May 17th, 2013 - 3:10 PM ET

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