On Monday, September 26, 2011 10:26:03 PM Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> >I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on
> >PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate
> >some key/hash for our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS
> >firmware and fla
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 05:49:24 Indi wrote:
> Ah, yet another marvelous benefit of using kde.
Indeed. I do try Gnome occasionally to see how it's progressing, but I can't
get on with it - far too arrogant. And the others I've tried are too skinny
to do all the things I want. So it's KDE a
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 03:42:12 Nils Larsson wrote:
> You could disable it(search for Nepomuk in systemsettings). That's what I
> did. Got tired of nepomukindexer spawning hundreds of instances of
> itself and eating all my memory...
Ah, yes, of course - thanks.
--
Rgds
Peter Li
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 23:08:04 Mark Knecht wrote:
> My experience so far:
>
> 1) As discussed earlier, needing to mess with routes when changing
> which network I'm using. Sad when both options actually point to the
> same address.
If you use ifplugd the eth0 will be activated auto-magically onc
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:18:56AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>My /home partition is 15GB, and the other day KDE warned me it was down
>to 1% free. I found that
>.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano-v
>irtuoso.db
>
>was occ
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:47:18 -0400
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>
> James Broadhead wrote:
>
> > On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman
> > wrote:
> > > Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something
> > > like wicd.
> >
> > Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.c
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:46:21PM -0400, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 11:15 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > So buy a mobo without it or that can disable it. Got it. It'll be a
> > good while before I buy a new mobo tho. I'm sure they will have a
> > nice
> > fix by then but this is
On 2011-09-27, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 09/26/11 16:13, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> That's hilarious.
>>
>> The Linux developers are _constantly_ changing APIs in ways that break
>> existing device driver code. There are repeatedly wholesale
>> re-designs of some APIs that happen between min
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM, wrote:
> I have fail2ban set up and it works quite well, except for the fact that
> whenever it sends me an Email, it always sends two copies. Every night
> when the logs rotate, it does this twice, once when t stops and once
> when it restarts, and when it bans
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 07:08:05AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>Not to belittle non-power users, most everything can be done by putting
>some more intelligence into the init.d scripts.
>
>Of course, this should be implemented by Gentoo itself. I'll spelunk in
>the relevant script
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I haven't seriously considered wicd because I don't understand what
> it is, how it links into everything else on the system.
At its most basic, it lists your network interfaces and you can
configure or connect with DHCP, scan wireless, enter
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:58:03PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
> It seems like it. Accessing www.google.com in my country always gets
> me redirected to www.google.co.id. Unless I login first.
Use http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en I do that to avoid being
redirected to http://www.google.ca/
--
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote:
>>
>> Alan McKinnon writes:
>>
>> > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See
>> > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is
>> > running - i
On Sep 27, 2011 9:57 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 27, 2011 9:51 AM, wrote:
> >
> >
> > James Broadhead wrote:
> >
> > > On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman <
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something
like wicd.
>
On Sep 27, 2011 9:51 AM, wrote:
>
>
> James Broadhead wrote:
>
> > On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> > > Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like
wicd.
> >
> > Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.conf for you (in
> > effect), has been the r
James Broadhead wrote:
> On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
> > Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd.
>
> Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.conf for you (in
> effect), has been the right way of configuring wifi for the average
I have fail2ban set up and it works quite well, except for the fact that
whenever it sends me an Email, it always sends two copies. Every night
when the logs rotate, it does this twice, once when t stops and once
when it restarts, and when it bans an ip it also sends two emails saying
so.
any ide
tisdagen den 27 september 2011 04:18:56 skrev Peter Humphrey:
> Hello list,
>
> My /home partition is 15GB, and the other day KDE warned me it was down to
> 1% free. I found that
> .kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano-
> virtuoso.db
> was occupying 12GB, so I dele
Hello list,
My /home partition is 15GB, and the other day KDE warned me it was down to
1% free. I found that
.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano-
virtuoso.db
was occupying 12GB, so I deleted it and rebooted.
Today it's already 3GB after only a few days. B.g.o h
On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote:
>
> Alan McKinnon writes:
>
> > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See
> > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is
> > running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk
> >
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
>> Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote:
>>> >
>>>
>>> [-- snip --]
>>>
>>> > Speaking as someone experienced i
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
>
>> What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See
>> what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is
>> running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk
>>
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
> Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>> On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote:
>> >
>>
>> [-- snip --]
>>
>> > Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo but certainly not
>> > a power user - I don't writ
Alan McKinnon writes:
> What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See
> what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is
> running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk
> from hdparm -t -T?
Top shows CC taking about 50% or in that
On 09/26/2011 06:13 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
Somebody on twitter told me that Ubuntu uses a special patch for
freetype that improves font rendering manifolds.
So I rebuilt freetype with these useflags: +auto-hinter +bindist
When you emerge freetype, it tells you at the end that the bindi
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Harry wrote:
> Sounds like there is no real way unless as you say. I've been
> wrestling with kernel build after kernel build trying to get a new
> install booted. Many failures led me to finally resorting to
> genkernel... but you may know already that is a full
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote:
> >
>
> [-- snip --]
>
> > Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo but certainly not
> > a power user - I don't write scripts or program at all - I gotta
> > say I don't like that w
On 09/26/11 19:04, Harry wrote:
>
> Sounds like there is no real way unless as you say. I've been
> wrestling with kernel build after kernel build trying to get a new
> install booted. Many failures led me to finally resorting to
> genkernel... but you may know already that is a full day of comp
On 09/26/11 16:13, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> That's hilarious.
>
> The Linux developers are _constantly_ changing APIs in ways that break
> existing device driver code. There are repeatedly wholesale
> re-designs of some APIs that happen between minor versions of a
> supposedly "stable" kernel.
>
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:04:24 -0500
Harry wrote:
> Paul Hartman writes:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Harry wrote:
> >> How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is? I can see the
> >> modules being
> >> built in /var/log/genkernel.log
> >> (Aside: Please, no hysteria about u
On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote:
>
[-- snip --]
> Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo but certainly not a
> power user - I don't write scripts or program at all - I gotta say I
> don't like that way this is all working on my system so far. TO BE
> CLEAR, I am SURE that
>Is this pretty normal?
I would say no. I have a p3 system with 512 MB of ram that can make a
.config in less than a minute... and the kernel takes about an hour.
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Harry wrote:
>> How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is? I can see the
>> modules being
>> built in /var/log/genkernel.log
>> (Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel)
>>
>> But I'd like to know of some way to guesst
Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 11:15 -0500, Dale wrote:
So buy a mobo without it or that can disable it. Got it. It'll be a
good while before I buy a new mobo tho. I'm sure they will have a
nice
fix by then but this is something I need to remember just in
case. ;-)
Ok, I'll
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:46:21 -0400
"Albert W. Hopkins" wrote:
> On the server side, I don't think there is any major server
> manufacturer dumb enough to sell a system not capable of running
> Linux.
How very true. If a manufacturer tried that, they would lose the entire
ISP and backbone market
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 11:15 -0500, Dale wrote:
> So buy a mobo without it or that can disable it. Got it. It'll be a
> good while before I buy a new mobo tho. I'm sure they will have a
> nice
> fix by then but this is something I need to remember just in
> case. ;-)
Ok, I'll bite...
It dep
pk wrote:
Hi,
Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might
find interesting (if you haven't seen it already):
http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440
Best regards
Peter K
Has anyone seen
On Monday 26 September 2011 22:45:20 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's unrealistic to support everything you ever did forever
> like MS tried to do (IE6 is *still* hanging around somehow...)
Tell me about it! IE6 is the nastiest pain in the backside of any webmaster.
I keep having to abandon pretty en
>I used to build and blueprint my own engines (cars and motorbikes).
>Then gradually cars became electronic appliances, locked down to the
>extent where engine modifications became difficult and expensive to
>implement. I fear that PCs and before that laptops may be heading the
>same way. :-(
th
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 26 Sep 2011 16:03:10 James Broadhead wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio
>> > Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google
>> > (... )I didn't even know there was a better way of managing wireless
>> > networks!
>>
>> Th
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 16:03:10 James Broadhead wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio
> > Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google
> > (... )I didn't even know there was a better way of managing wireless
> > networks!
>
> This is exactly the problem.
>
> I'm working on rewrit
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 21:26:03 Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> >I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on
> >PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate
> >some key/hash for our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS
> >firmware and flash the BIOS
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:06:36 +0200
Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> >The only problem with that attitude is that it eventually leads you
> >to the same position that Microsoft is in with Windows -- where too
> >many years of refusing to drop backwards compatibility were
> >completely holding them back.
>
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Harry wrote:
> How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is? I can see the modules
> being
> built in /var/log/genkernel.log
> (Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel)
>
> But I'd like to know of some way to guesstimate how much of the process
On 09/26/11 16:01, Grant wrote:
> I'd like to hire a freelancer to work on my website. I don't want to
> provide access to all of my code, but instead only the particular file
> or files being worked on. Does anyone know of a development framework
> that would help facilitate that sort of thing?
>The only problem with that attitude is that it eventually leads you to
>the same position that Microsoft is in with Windows -- where too many
>years of refusing to drop backwards compatibility were completely
>holding them back.
i thought of that too. as with many other things, the trick is to f
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might
>> find interesting (if you haven't seen it already):
>>
>> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Tor
Am 26.09.2011 21:56, schrieb Michael Mol:
>> Is it more complicated than that?
> Just a hunch, but I think the BIOS will probably be signed. Perhaps in
> replacement of the existing checksum functionality.
I have something like that on my Motorola Milestone Android Phone.
It is not possible to c
hi harry!
don't take my word for it, but i don't think there is an easy solution
to this :)
cmake creates makefiles which show the percentage completed in a build
step. maybe you can look into how it does that and apply that to the
kernel?
/jonas
>Harry gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> How can one
>On 26 September 2011 20:29, Jonas de Buhr
>wrote:
between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a
cracked boot, with little in the way of switching between the two,
at least initially
>>>
>>>And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will
>>>surely f
>I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on
>PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate
>some key/hash for our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS
>firmware and flash the BIOS with it before we are able to boot into it?
>
>Is it more c
On 26 September 2011 20:29, Jonas de Buhr wrote:
>>> between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a cracked
>>> boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least
>>> initially
>>
>>And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will
>>surely find out
>> yes, there will most likely be a technical way to circumvent it. the
>> problem is that involved companies might try (and likely succeed) to
>> make that illegal.
>> the reasoning will be this: it is assumed that you only make that
>> modification to run pirated copies of commercial operating sy
On 26 September 2011 20:44, Michael Mol wrote:
> Yeah, I just saw that. Admittedly, when I saw this section:
>
> --begin-section--
>
> I'll add at this point that this isn't just a programmer problem. I've
> seen entire companies get locked into the idea that “perfecting” the
> program was everyth
On 2011-09-26, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might
>> find interesting (if you haven't seen it already):
>>
>> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on
I'd like to hire a freelancer to work on my website. I don't want to
provide access to all of my code, but instead only the particular file
or files being worked on. Does anyone know of a development framework
that would help facilitate that sort of thing? Would no shell access
along with restri
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 26 Sep 2011 20:29:14 Jonas de Buhr wrote:
>> >> between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a cracked
>> >> boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least
>> >> initially
>> >>
>> >> I know which one I'd p
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 20:29:14 Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> >> between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a cracked
> >> boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least
> >> initially
> >>
> >> I know which one I'd pick if it came down to it :)
> >
> >And you really n
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might
> find interesting (if you haven't seen it already):
>
> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Jonas de Buhr wrote:
>>> between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a cracked
>>> boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least
>>> initially
>>>
>>> I know which one I'd pick if it came down to it :)
>>
>>And you really need n
Harry gmail.com> writes:
>
> How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is? I can see the
> modules being built in /var/log/genkernel.log
>(Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel)
>
> But I'd like to know of some way to guesstimate how much of the process is
> completed.
Hi,
Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might
find interesting (if you haven't seen it already):
http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440
Best regards
Peter K
>> between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a cracked
>> boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least
>> initially
>>
>> I know which one I'd pick if it came down to it :)
>
>And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will
>surely find ou
On 2011-09-26 18:13, James Broadhead wrote:
> If you were, would you give your opinion freely on the internet?
> `s/would/could`?
Well, you never know... ;-)
> Since our system is set up so that one can spend significant amounts
> of money just to find out whether something is or is not a restri
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Harry wrote:
> Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I believe it uses the browser's setting as default. It's probably best
>> to block all cookies by default in Firefox's settings, that way only
>> the ones you explicitly allow in the Cookie Monster add-on will b
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes:
> I believe it uses the browser's setting as default. It's probably best
> to block all cookies by default in Firefox's settings, that way only
> the ones you explicitly allow in the Cookie Monster add-on will be
> accepted.
Anyone know how that setting is accesse
Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Dale wrote:
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
Well, since I don't have or use M$'s junk, I guess I am OK then? I just
need to make sure any mobo I buy in the future either doesn't have this or
can be disabled?
Heck, if you didn't have to reboot
On 26 September 2011 16:49, pk wrote:
> ...but don't take my word for it... If you really need to know for sure
> - contact a lawyer[1].
>
> [1] IANAL :-)
If you were, would you give your opinion freely on the internet?
`s/would/could`?
Since our system is set up so that one can spend significan
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Indi wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:56:20 +0530
> Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>
> As this is being touted a win8 feature (with win8 set for release
> sometime in 2012), I predict this will be defeated before the first
> win8 machine hits the stores -- just like p
How can one tell how far along a kernel compile is? I can see the modules being
built in /var/log/genkernel.log
(Aside: Please, no hysteria about using genkernel)
But I'd like to know of some way to guesstimate how much of the process is
completed. Is there a list the compile has generated a
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:56:20 +0530
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On Mon 26 Sep 2011 08:51:17 PM IST, James Broadhead wrote:
> > On 26 September 2011 16:01, Mick wrote:
> >> I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into
> >> UEFI boot what are the workarounds to compensate for
On 2011-09-26 17:13, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> What is the difference between this unpatented auto hinter and the
> TrueType BC interpreter?
Here's some more info:
http://www.freetype.org/patents.html
Best regards
Peter K
On 2011-09-26 17:13, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> What is the difference between this unpatented auto hinter and the
> TrueType BC interpreter?
As far as I know, the truetype byte code interpreter patent expired
about 2 years ago... See:
http://www.osnews.com/story/18166/Interview-with-David-Turn
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan
wrote:
> Somebody on twitter told me that Ubuntu uses a special patch for
> freetype that improves font rendering manifolds.
>
> So I rebuilt freetype with these useflags: +auto-hinter +bindist
>
> What is the difference between this unpatented
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Dale wrote:
> Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>>
>> On Mon 26 Sep 2011 08:51:17 PM IST, James Broadhead wrote:
>>>
>>> On 26 September 2011 16:01, Mick wrote:
I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into UEFI
boot what are the worka
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
On Mon 26 Sep 2011 08:51:17 PM IST, James Broadhead wrote:
On 26 September 2011 16:01, Mick wrote:
I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into UEFI
boot what are the workarounds to compensate for Microsoft's efforts to
exclude other operating sy
On 26 September 2011 16:26, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will
> surely find out a way.
Oh, I don't doubt that I'll be able to boot Linux, I just think that
we're going to enter another era where setting up a functional and
easily-switc
On Mon 26 Sep 2011 08:51:17 PM IST, James Broadhead wrote:
> On 26 September 2011 16:01, Mick wrote:
>> I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into UEFI
>> boot what are the workarounds to compensate for Microsoft's efforts to
>> exclude other operating systems from available
On 26 September 2011 16:01, Mick wrote:
> I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into UEFI
> boot what are the workarounds to compensate for Microsoft's efforts to
> exclude other operating systems from available hardware?
My opinion is that signed boot is probably on its wa
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan
wrote:
> On Mon 26 Sep 2011 08:31:10 PM IST, Mick wrote:
>> I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into UEFI
>> boot what are the workarounds to compensate for Microsoft's efforts to
>> exclude other operating systems from
Somebody on twitter told me that Ubuntu uses a special patch for
freetype that improves font rendering manifolds.
So I rebuilt freetype with these useflags: +auto-hinter +bindist
What is the difference between this unpatented auto hinter and the
TrueType BC interpreter?
--
Nilesh Govindarajan
h
On Mon 26 Sep 2011 08:31:10 PM IST, Mick wrote:
> I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into UEFI
> boot what are the workarounds to compensate for Microsoft's efforts to
> exclude other operating systems from available hardware?
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/26/ue
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio
> Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google
> (... )I didn't even know there was a better way of managing wireless networks!
This is exactly the problem.
I'm working on rewriting the Handbook's page on setting up wifi, but
I'm going to need some t
I don't know if you have seen this. Given that we're moving into UEFI
boot what are the workarounds to compensate for Microsoft's efforts to
exclude other operating systems from available hardware?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/26/uefi_linux_lock_out_row_latest/
--
Regards,
Mick
On 26 September 2011 15:12, Spidey / Claudio wrote:
> Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I
> also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to
> connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a
> realistic configuration file, which w
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio wrote:
> >Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I
> >also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to
> >connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a
> >realistic configuration file
Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I
also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to
connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a
realistic configuration file, which would let you boot with network up
equally while home and whil
On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman wrote:
> Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd.
Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.conf for you (in
effect), has been the right way of configuring wifi for the average
user for years now. It's a real shame t
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