Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link

2012-02-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/12 09:30, Michael Hampicke wrote: You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in google search. As I said, I have disabled cookies and javascript for goolge.de (using cookiemonster an

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Dale
I know this thread is a few weeks old but it is still highly related. I found this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-google%27s-privacy-policy Maybe it ain't so bad after all. Someone posted it wasn't tho. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined... Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the reason why my company decided to change our

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined... Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snippage BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link

2012-02-08 Thread Joseph
I can not seem to open any link in Google search engine. I'm using firefox-9.0 Google search display the result but when I try to open it it doesn't work. I don't have any plugin's installed Proxy is set to no-proxy By 2nd. backup computer as the same problem. Trying open any link from Google

Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link

2012-02-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.02.2012 19:24, schrieb Joseph: I can not seem to open any link in Google search engine. I'm using firefox-9.0 Google search display the result but when I try to open it it doesn't work. I don't have any plugin's installed Proxy is set to no-proxy By 2nd. backup computer as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link

2012-02-08 Thread Joseph
On 02/08/12 19:28, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 08.02.2012 19:24, schrieb Joseph: I can not seem to open any link in Google search engine. I'm using firefox-9.0 Google search display the result but when I try to open it it doesn't work. I don't have any plugin's installed Proxy is set to

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 9, 2012 1:35 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link

2012-02-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:58:26AM -0700, Joseph wrote You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in google search. This is getting strange. One day it is working and next day it stops (I did not even installed anything). Though, I do accept cookies selectively.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link

2012-02-08 Thread Joseph
On 02/08/12 23:24, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:58:26AM -0700, Joseph wrote You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in google search. This is getting strange. One day it is working and next day it stops (I did not even installed anything). Though,

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, have you read googles privacy changes yourself? I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-29 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, have you read googles privacy changes yourself? I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual. I read some more on it but I'm thinking about what will be coming next. It seems when a company goes public like Google did a while back, facebook is

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:12:17 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, have you read googles privacy changes yourself? I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual. I read some more on it but I'm thinking about what will be coming next. It seems when a company goes public

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/29/2012 02:47 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:12:17 Dale wrote: As far as I can tell all that is changing with Google is they are going to join up in terms of user authentication, hitherto separate portals or apps they had. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:38:15 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: To turn this on its head ... rather than hiding, is there a way to create identical browsers that pollute their (google et al.) databases? Considering the huge number a people using the likes of Google (and no one has stated that

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 00:48:14 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2012 21:29:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: I've been contacted, and interviewed by phone, by Google TWICE. Both times the person said straight up they read gentoo-users shrug I was contacted too, but I think they were

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote: Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate candidates with networking and security knowledge, who would be keen to work for Google at a (relatively) low

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 12:31:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote: Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate candidates with networking and security knowledge, who

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:59:34 +, Mick wrote: My contact was interested in someone with experience in high performance clusters. Can anyone point to a post of mine, here or anywhere else, that implies that my knowledge of clustering extends beyond being able to spell it? You're

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:31:50 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote: Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate candidates with networking and

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool. Thoughts? Suggestions? What about Yandex? It provides a search tool and

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com writes: I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty unique; no standard set of fonts, for example. So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:48 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote:  Hello! On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a better search tool?  I don't like Yahoo either.  I do like froogle so that would be a bonus.  You know, shopping tool. Thoughts?  

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.01.2012 07:57, schrieb Dale: Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, January 26, 2012 8:16 am, Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a camera

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mathurin
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a camera on my rig

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:16:01AM -0600, Dale wrote I'm sort of getting tired of switching emails every time I switch ISPs or there is a policy change. That is why I switched to gmail in the first place. No matter what ISP I use, I can still use Gmail. Yet, here I am again. Years ago,

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 08:48:28 Michael Mathurin wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:07:51 +, Mick wrote: BTW, it seems to me that if you access youtube and at the same time search Google without being logged in to any of their portals, they will not be tracking your email for user profiling purposes. They may be logging IP addresses but it could

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Timo Briddigkeit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/26/2012 08:16 AM, Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 11:33:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:07:51 +, Mick wrote: BTW, it seems to me that if you access youtube and at the same time search Google without being logged in to any of their portals, they will not be tracking your email for user profiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 01:16 AM, Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:56:49 +, Mick wrote: They can track a lot more than IP addresses, your browser can provide a lot of information, not just user-agent but installed fonts, plugin information and much more. There is enough to do a damn good job of identifying you even when your IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Dale
John J. Foster wrote: Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and I'm pretty sure it does. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember where is was. Somewhere like the EFF. I guess you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 13:50:46 Neil Bothwick wrote: Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that hot anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I am completely unqualified - and not just because it meant getting out of bed before 9am :-O Ha, ha! A very

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how much it could glean from even an anonymous session,

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:43 +, Mick wrote: Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that hot anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I am completely unqualified - and not just because it meant getting out of bed before 9am :-O Ha, ha! A very

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:25 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember where is was.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote: John J. Foster wrote: Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and I'm pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:25 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how much it could

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 08:22 AM, John J. Foster wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote: John J. Foster wrote: Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus Do they allow

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ My results from work: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so far. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:59:57AM -0600, Dale wrote: John J. Foster wrote: Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ My results from work: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so far. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ My results from work: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ My results from work: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
Within our dataset of visitors, one in 0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys INF bits of identifying information. I think I broke it. I win? :) Sweet, panopticlick.eff.org got gentoo'd :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 16:04:45 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ My results from work: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so far.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread James Broadhead
On 26 January 2012 16:18, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote:     Within our dataset of visitors, one in 0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.     Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys INF bits of identifying information. I think I broke

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: The long URL is below.  I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with.  Next they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf. To be honest, I already

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Me, I use Chromium for using social media sites or Google services that I want to log-in to. Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. I don't use it for anything else. I use Firefox for everything else. I am not logged into any of those services in Firefox. I use RequestPolicy to block all

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 17:11:39 Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: Me, I use Chromium for using social media sites or Google services that I want to log-in to. Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. I don't use it for anything else. I use Firefox for everything else. I am not logged into any of

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe slightly OT, but what do gentoo-users think about Tor? As an anonymising proxy, in my opinion, I consider it to be the most hostile network one could ever use. I would only use Tor from within a virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 26.01.2012 11:07, schrieb Mick: On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 08:48:28 Michael Mathurin wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they

RE: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Frank Steinmetzger [mailto:war...@gmx.de] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:05 AM This backs me up in using noscript and flashblock. Sometimes I doubt myself when I get asked once more why I would use NoScript in times when most of the web relies on JS. I then say that privacy and

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote: This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+, Opera for Facebook and Firefox for normal browsing? Yes, I use Chromium --incognito to check

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote: This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+, Opera for Facebook and

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote: This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for different services? Like

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:16, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:52:47 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you could achieve the same using different user profiles. For example `firefox --no-remote -P google` and `firefox --no-remote -P default`. Ha!  I didn't know that FF can handle different profiles!  I better read on this

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:12:39 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:43 +, Mick wrote: Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that hot anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I am completely unqualified - and

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
My first reaction was, why would Google need a CV from me, surely they already know more about me than my mother does? Clearly they don't. Of course they do! They just wanted you to confirm what they know about you. Who knows, maybe you lied when you posted a story on facebook where you told

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:47:18 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: My first reaction was, why would Google need a CV from me, surely they already know more about me than my mother does? Clearly they don't. Of course they do! They just wanted you to confirm what they know about you. Who knows,

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:59:57AM -0600, Dale wrote: John J. Foster wrote: Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ My results from work: Your browser

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 26 January 2012 21:29:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: I've been contacted, and interviewed by phone, by Google TWICE. Both times the person said straight up they read gentoo-users shrug I was contacted too, but I think they were swayed by my sig. Anyway, no further contact once I told

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:38 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Graham Murray
James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com writes: I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty unique; no standard set of fonts, for example. So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it might not be able to track you - thinking that you are actually multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me

[gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-25 Thread Dale
Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf. I found a

[gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '' version package. I vaguely recall that ''

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

2011-11-29 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '' version package. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

2011-11-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 14:26:17 Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Inc. Could Be Compliant to the Chinese Government in Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC)

2010-09-21 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 of Singapore space.time.unive...@gmail.com wrote: Article: Google Warns of China Exit Over Hacking Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126333757451026659.html Nice to be back in January and OT ;) I don't think it is

[gentoo-user] Google Inc. Could Be Compliant to the Chinese Government in Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC)

2010-09-20 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 o f Singapore
Article: Google Warns of China Exit Over Hacking Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126333757451026659.html I don't think it is that easy to hack if you are using SSL connections and very strong passwords. How long would it take supercomputers to perform a brute force attack if you are

[gentoo-user] google earth start problem ati-x600

2009-03-17 Thread Zoltán Füves
Hi All! I tried to emerge google earth / both from x86 and ~x86 and I have 32 bit cpu /, and it completed successfully but when I ran the program it complain about could not access to the GPU or the card has not enough memory to run GE, but it has because the minimum is 16 and it has 128 Mb

Re: [gentoo-user] google earth start problem ati-x600

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:56 +0100, Zoltán Füves wrote: Hi All! I tried to emerge google earth / both from x86 and ~x86 and I have 32 bit cpu /, and it completed successfully but when I ran the program it complain about could not access to the GPU or the card has not enough memory to run

Re: [gentoo-user] google earth start problem ati-x600

2009-03-17 Thread Zoltán Füves
I have the same problem (on amd64): using the radeon or radeonhd driver you don't have 3D acceleration, and it seems googleearth detects this somehow :( yes unfortunately same problem on other platforms :( but I use the adi-drivers fglrx module to use 3D acc. thanks. Z.

Re: [gentoo-user] google earth start problem ati-x600

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 16:12 +0100, Zoltán Füves wrote: I have the same problem (on amd64): using the radeon or radeonhd driver you don't have 3D acceleration, and it seems googleearth detects this somehow :( yes unfortunately same problem on other platforms :( but I use the adi-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] google earth start problem ati-x600

2009-03-17 Thread gg
Am Tuesday 17 March 2009 15:45:00 schrieb Daniel Troeder: On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:56 +0100, Zoltán Füves wrote: Hi All! I tried to emerge google earth / both from x86 and ~x86 and I have 32 bit cpu /, and it completed successfully but when I ran the program it complain about could

Re: [gentoo-user] google earth start problem ati-x600

2009-03-17 Thread Zoltán Füves
This bug is bigger than I expect :) I emerged ati-drivers 8.582 seems like without error and amdcccle report a very similar output: no ati driver present or it not configured properly, but fglrx module present glxgears run without error and other opengl apps run good :) fglrxinfo shows ati

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-16 Thread Nico Schümann
2006/6/15, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A shame it's binary-only, so it won't run on everything that runs Linux. Yes, it is, of course. But I think, google will never open the source because of its policy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Nico Schümann
Hi,yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked? Has anyone any problems with Google Earth?Nico Schümann

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:31, Nico Schümann wrote: Hi, yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked? Has anyone any

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread 员旭鹏
2006/6/15, Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi,yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked? Has anyone any problems with Google

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Nico Schümann
2006/6/15, 员旭鹏 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: try load glx module in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:Section Module Load glx Load extmod Load xtrap Load record Load dbe Load dri Load freetype Load type1EndSection glx is already loaded.Section Module Load vnc Load dbe Load extmod Load record Load xtrap Load glx Load dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/15/06, Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/6/15, 员旭鹏 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: try load glx module in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section Module Load glx Load extmod Load xtrap Load record Load dbe Load dri Load freetype Load type1 EndSection

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 15 June 2006 14:01, Nico Schümann wrote: So why is Google Earth masked? Has anyone any problems with Google Earth? It is not hard masked it just isn't in stable. It is a beta version and it has been in the tree for only 3 days. It probably won't become stable before Google

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Aaron
On Thursday 15 June 2006 07:01, Nico Schümann wrote: Hi, yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked? Has anyone any

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/15/06, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 June 2006 07:01, Nico Schümann wrote: Hi, yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:27:50 -0500, Aaron wrote: I am running google earth without any problems. Its cool that they finally came out with a Linux version. A shame it's binary-only, so it won't run on everything that runs Linux. -- Neil Bothwick .sig a .sog of sixpence. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-15 Thread Nick Rout
bugger i didn't even know there was an ebuild, i simply downloaded and installed. I'll back that out now and use the ebuild. On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:01:35 +0200 Nico Schümann wrote: Hi, yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and everything worked as expected

[gentoo-user] google earth 4- beta

2006-06-14 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I've just tried to install google earth and got the following: Calculating dependencies ... done! Emerging (1 of 1) x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta to / checking ebuild checksums ;-) checking auxfile checksums ;-) checking miscfile checksums ;-) checking GoogleEarthLinux.bin ;-) Unpacking

[gentoo-user] Google Earth/Picasa

2006-06-13 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi there, Does exist any way of installing Google Earth/Picasa into amd64 ? Thanx. -- A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes - Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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