Re: CUPS and AVAHI (bloatware)
I don't like the idea of splitting packages, but I get weirded out when ghostscript (which DOES have a no_x11 variant) winds up pulling in dbus. I guess there's no escaping freedesktop.org. khm
Re: New question, do I really need a AAAA record?
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 08:18:31PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > Sorry, I think I didn't formulate the question well. What I meant was, > do I need also a static ipv6 to be considered by big smtp servers as a > legal sender? > No. khm
Re: gmail and hotmail blocking mail sent from my IP
You're the last person anyone wants email advice from, Rupert. khm
Re: How do you do "family remote support"?
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 05:22:29PM -0400, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Never heard of whatismyip.org? > Sent from ProtonMail Mobile Never heard of NAT? Sent from QMail Stationary
Re: Current FreeBSD looking to switch to OpenBSD
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 09:20:49PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > I dual boot now between Win7 and FreeBSD > > on I lapdog I have 5 os on it and use grub2 to boot them > > How is this helpful? I don't know. Some people just like talking about their computers to strangers, I guess. khm
Re: spamd and outlook.com
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:40:42PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:21:48 -0700 > Kurt H Maier wrote: > > > Greylisting is a hack, an abuse of a side-effect. Most such > > approaches have deleterious side effects. This particular side > > effect is why I don't like greylisting in general, even though it's > > fairly effective. > > Do you answer your phone before looking at the number/caller? In fact, there are some numbers I will not respond to (and these do not cause my phone to ring) and the rest I just answer. Just like having a blacklist I don't accept SMTP connections from at all, and the rest get processed normally. What I don't do it set an outgoing voicemail greeting informing correspondents that my time is more valuable than theirs, and if they want to contact me I have a list of hoops through which they must jump. That would make me an asshole. > It is not a hack at all. It is. SMTP is mandated to retry as a reliability factor, in a world with bad network connections and unreliable software. It is not mandated to retry so people can play cute games with the sending unit. I personally have no burning desire to see greylisting expunged from the internet, but I also have no sympathy for people who think it's a real solution to anything. If it works for someone, good for them, but I will never be even a little surprised when it becomes a pain in someone's ass. khm
Re: spamd and outlook.com
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 04:02:20PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2017-04-21, Craig Skinner wrote: > > Hi Markus, > > > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:25:14 +0200 Markus Rosjat wrote: > >> so if you have spamd in place in greylisting mode and you have > >> customers that work with people who use Office365 as a service you > >> will get calls that emails are delayed for a freaking long time > > > > Email is not instant messaging. > > > > Customers need educated to that fact. > > How do you educate them to that when they send to their gmail account > and it shows up on their phone within seconds? > > Sometimes there are delays but there's no reason for that to be the norm. > There's no reason email can't be instant messaging. Postmasters have spent decades training users that email just sucks and is necessarily unreliable. All they did was corral users toward services where they don't have to hear the administrators whining about how hard that job is. Greylisting is a hack, an abuse of a side-effect. Most such approaches have deleterious side effects. This particular side effect is why I don't like greylisting in general, even though it's fairly effective. khm
Re: Sony Vaio VPCSA
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:22:42PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Why exactly a laptop which only takes one disk would ship in RAID mode, > no idea, but I've seen it a number of times. Many of the laptops in this series could take up to four custom SSDs, which would be presented as a single drive via Intel's Matrix RAID stuff. Others were capable of taking an msata drive to use as cache in front of a spinning disk drive, which also required RAID mode to be enabled. khm
Re: Looking for replacement of thinkpad x201
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Florian Ermisch wrote: > With the x260 support for a 16gb RAM stick (now DDR4) in the single slot is > now official > but it's not clear if you can have both a 2.5" > (7mm thick) drive and a m.2/NVMe SSD. > The option of having an m.2/_SATA_ SSD sure > is gone from what I've found. My X250 shipped from Lenovo with a 16GB DIMM and I put my own m.2 ssd in. I also configured it with the cache ssd, so right now I have a 512gb 2.5" SSD for openbsd, a 512gb m.2 SSD for 9front, and a 16gb m.2 SSD with a vfat filesystem that either one can mount. If you can get over the keyboard, x250 is a very capable machine. khm
Re: thinkpad X11 wheel emulation for middle button
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 07:01:45PM +0200, Μάνος Πιτσιδιανάκης wrote: > I want to enable wheel emulation for the middle button in my Thinkpad > (T420s) I have this in my .xsession: xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel Emulation" 1 xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel Emulation Button" 2 xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel Emulation Axes" 6 7 4 5 This has worked for me on several machines, including the X250 I'm using to send this message. khm
