Re: [arch-general] IPv6 causing wget/curl to hang for a long time?

2011-06-05 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 10:20:36PM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > So if I disable ipv6 will I lose connectivity on june 8th? Don't > really know too much about what's being changed exactly, just that its > being tested for 24 hours. No. Most of the sites should remain dual-stacked. However, why disable

Re: [arch-general] Can a ISP modify incoming http traffic to display ads using transparent proxy server ?

2011-04-02 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 08:21:33AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I suggest you install addblocker in the firefox add-ons. That would "work", but would not solve the main issue being that you are paying for your ISP -and- getting assaulted by their ads, which should not be done.

Re: [arch-general] 3 minutes and 12 seconds Youtube video of My Arch Linux

2010-08-29 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:16:04AM -0400, Loui Chang wrote: > Hey don't be so mean. This is the first remotely relevant thing he's > sent to the list. Seems like he's trying to do better. Heheh. It's still spam, and he sends it to so many free-software mailing lists. He needs to stop thinking we

[arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated

2010-08-12 Thread Harry Strongburg
Hello, this mirror has an old lasysync of 1279951267. Googling this number returns a few results for other mirrors at this time. What does it mean? Lastly, what mirror is the "most trusted"? I trust vt.edu, their uptime has been wonderful until it stopped updating packages. I don't want to use t