I know nobody has been holding their breath for this report, after all, these
old Core 2 Duo "Conroe" aren't even identified by Intel as CPUs with
speculative execution flaws that they're NOT going to fix! But Google does
index our list, so for the benefit of others...
After a significant
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 11:19, Michael Shell via blfs-support <
blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:20:24 +0100
> Richard Melville via blfs-support
> wrote:
>
> > There's also Startpage and Qwant
>
>
> Thanks for those! But, Startpage does rely on Google's
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:20:24 +0100
Richard Melville via blfs-support
wrote:
> There's also Startpage and Qwant
Thanks for those! But, Startpage does rely on Google's engine,
and Qwant on Bing's:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant
I also forgot
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 09:08, Michael Shell via blfs-support <
blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:55:18 +0100
> Ken Moffat via blfs-support
> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I've no idea for what to search for (current google mostly
> > returns results for multiple
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:55:18 +0100
Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote:
> Sorry, I've no idea for what to search for (current google mostly
> returns results for multiple terms with one of the crossed through
> in the 'must include' underneath the summary.
FWIW, Google is really, really going
Suspicions confirmed, I suspect. I installed my 8.1 distro on my old i7,
brought it up to speed, and went to a couple Yahoo Finance pages. It didn't
crash. I'll have to play with it more to see if I can persuade it, but it
looks like I may have to do a binary search for a patch between 62 &
> If you were using PaX, and indeed hardened gentoo, then you would be a
> very long way from what most people here are doing. I will be very
> surprised if that is the case.
Indeed you should! ;-) No, I'm not using PaX, just that page suggests that
things it's doing to harden a system cause
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 09:54:21AM -0700, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote:
> It seemed like a good idea to update with new kernel patches, 4.14.134
> specifically, to catch mitigations for the CPU flaws. Suddenly
> Firefox-55.0.3 began crashing on certain pages. My console began showing
>
It seemed like a good idea to update with new kernel patches, 4.14.134
specifically, to catch mitigations for the CPU flaws. Suddenly Firefox-55.0.3
began crashing on certain pages. My console began showing errors related to
force_s3tc_enable. That seems to be a red-herring though. One of
