Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?
Ian-Xue Li schrieb: Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover them. I wonder if this is true (in the sense that anyone once had a problem with pbzip2), because myself had never run into one of them. If so, it really a shame to abandon such a good tool though... I used it occasionally in the past and had no problems. Although I almost never unpacked one of these files. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?
Do not know if it'll work, but check out ZeroShellhttp://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ ... -- Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:44, Brendan Long kori...@gmail.com wrote: So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP. Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem). Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it. -Brendan Long
Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP. Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem). Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it. -Brendan Long Sounds like you want to create a modem pool. There are stuff on the internet about this. I did a quick google but I didn't have time to read them all :) You could look at RAS if that would suit you better :) Best regards Fredrik Eriksson
Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...
On 11/19/2009 07:00 AM, Christopher Daley wrote: Is there any chance of the -bin (precompiled) versions being hosted once an official release is made? I guess there's little reason for it as they're so easy to compile yourself, but it would simplify upgrading/maintenance for a number of users. I don't see google moving away from their custom build utilities any time soon, so unless someone forks chromium we're probably not going to get that a simplified build process. after they release a stable version we can manage to do a proper package for our users, but until then use chromium-browser-bin or chromium-browser-svn. -- Ionut
Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP. Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem). Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it. pppd will do it, you can read http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/ or similar generally you'll need to know routing and networking, pppd options and chat options. Then you need to set pppd/chat (pppd starts chat to control the modem) to wait for a RING, answer the modem, then pppd takes over and establishes the ppp session. -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Ionut Biru wrote: On 11/19/2009 07:00 AM, Christopher Daley wrote: Is there any chance of the -bin (precompiled) versions being hosted once an official release is made? I guess there's little reason for it as they're so easy to compile yourself, but it would simplify upgrading/maintenance for a number of users. I don't see google moving away from their custom build utilities any time soon, so unless someone forks chromium we're probably not going to get that a simplified build process. after they release a stable version we can manage to do a proper package for our users, but until then use chromium-browser-bin or chromium-browser-svn. -- Ionut I like Iron browser :) -- Best, Jozsef Kurucity | Web Graphic Designer +971 50 6783113 | joz...@gmx.com
Re: [arch-general] MUA
Mutt grows old and still doesn't do threads the way i want. i've tried sup, but find it too early in development. Especcially it is unusable slow. Can somone recommend another MUA? There's also Moziila Raindrop https://mozillalabs.com/raindrop/2009/10/22/introducing-raindrop/ -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Ian-Xue Li schrieb: Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover them. I wonder if this is true (in the sense that anyone once had a problem with pbzip2), because myself had never run into one of them. If so, it really a shame to abandon such a good tool though... I used it occasionally in the past and had no problems. Although I almost never unpacked one of these files. My experience is similar to Thomas's. I used it in the past, mostly to compress large log files. It appeared to work, but I never tried to uncompress any of these files.
Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?
Hi, I use it frequently to pack/unpack large files/folders (for instance different types of vmware images). the files/folders usually consume between 5-15GB (uncompressed). These files are then even more frequently unpacked by various different user, which (so far) never encountered any problems. So for at least one year everything went fine. regards - Michael On 19.11.2009 08:43, Ian-Xue Li wrote: Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover them. I wonder if this is true (in the sense that anyone once had a problem with pbzip2), because myself had never run into one of them. If so, it really a shame to abandon such a good tool though...
Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?
On Thu 19 Nov 2009 00:44 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP. There are probably ways around that windows program requirement for the free ISPs. Years ago I was able to connect to AOL using a program called penggy.
Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:23, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: There are probably ways around that windows program requirement for the free ISPs. Years ago I was able to connect to AOL using a program called penggy. I can say from personal experience that pengy hasn't worked in over 5 years.
