Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/30/2012 10:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > [0:0] -A FECESBOOK -j LOG --log-prefix "FECESBOOK:" --log-level 6 > [0:0] -A FECESBOOK -j DROP > [0:0] -A INPUT -s 192.168.123.248/29 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT > [0:0] -A INPUT -s 169.254.0.0/16 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT > [0:0] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > [0:0] -A INPUT

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 3, 2013 4:40 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: > > On 12/30/12 22:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > > OK, here is version 2. I had "an excellent adventure" along the way. > > > > I'm doing the upgrade on our servers right now, and there's another > possible gotcha: the newer iptables (requiring connt

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 3, 2013 1:57 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: > > On 01/02/13 08:38, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This has been bugging me for a while... > > > > I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this > > question... > > > > Lots of references to the Mangle table, but nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 08:52 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >>> >> >> Turns out that it's a character in CJK. >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 >> Installed bitstream-cyberbit. >> >> -- >> Nilesh Govindarajan >> http:/

[gentoo-user] Breakage from recent updates to gnome-3.6 on ~amd64

2013-01-02 Thread walt
I use mostly the cinnamon fork of gnome-shell but I also give gnome-shell a try occasionally just to annoy myself :) The gnome updates from Jan 1-2 caused me a bit of trouble, but I'm making progress that might help some of you: First, the addition of gstreamer-1.0 is now installed along side th

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 Jan 2013 19:47:11 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-01-02 2:01 PM, Mick wrote: > > If you have a look at 'man iptables-extensions' it gives some examples of > > using -t mangle. > > > > I haven't looked in Google recently, but there should be some examples > > there too. > > Oh, ok - so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 03/01/13 06:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, james wrote: >> Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: >> ... Also check /lib/udev/rules.d/ BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, james wrote: > Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > > >> > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent >> > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > >> Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That >> should free up udev to do more of wh

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Stroller wrote: > On 1 January 2013, at 15:22, Francisco Ares wrote: >> ... >> I've heard (or read) that before, to me it seems quite strange that > one of the main products from MS to be so outdated in this area. > > AVI has been around a long time. It is inevitably prone to "bitro

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/30/12 22:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > OK, here is version 2. I had "an excellent adventure" along the way. > I'm doing the upgrade on our servers right now, and there's another possible gotcha: the newer iptables (requiring conntrack) requires NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNTRACK support in the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Todd Goodman
* james [130102 16:02]: [..] > > Well is all works automatically, but udev did not create the > files I thought it would upon reboot: > > > rules.d # ls -alg > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root 192 Jan 2 14:37 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root 152 Dec 9 23:26 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1896 Sep 30 08:13 70-pers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:57 PM, james wrote: > Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > > >> > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent >> > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > >> Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That >> should free up udev to do more of w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-02 Thread Stroller
On 1 January 2013, at 15:22, Francisco Ares wrote: > ... > I've heard (or read) that before, to me it seems quite strange that one of > the main products from MS to be so outdated in this area. AVI has been around a long time. It is inevitably prone to "bitrot", then. AIUI the AVI specificatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:57:07PM +, james wrote: > > Well is all works automatically, but udev did not create the > files I thought it would upon reboot: > > > rules.d # ls -alg > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root 192 Jan 2 14:37 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root 152 Dec 9 23:26 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root

[gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread james
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent > > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That > should free up udev to do more of what you suspect. Yep, I did this to see if udev would b

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-02 2:01 PM, Mick wrote: If you have a look at 'man iptables-extensions' it gives some examples of using -t mangle. I haven't looked in Google recently, but there should be some examples there too. Oh, ok - so, if I don't have any rules that use the 'mangle' command, then I can saf

[gentoo-user] Re: Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:56:33 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, > etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh > install. > > Does anyone know which font to install? Try media-fonts/symbola

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 Jan 2013 13:38:27 Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > This has been bugging me for a while... > > I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this > question... > > Lots of references to the Mangle table, but nothing that really explains > what this table is or does, a

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/13 08:38, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > This has been bugging me for a while... > > I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this > question... > > Lots of references to the Mangle table, but nothing that really explains > what this table is or does, and when or why

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: ... I don't think I have this problem here but I'd need to emerge a specific game that runs full screen to test. Could you please provide the name of something easy to emerge and test. I ran a game called 0ad a couple of months ago and I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 02.01.2013 11:55, Florian Philipp wrote: Hello, > Make sure all direct and indirect dependencies have USE=xinerama. > Specifically: > > x11-libs/qt-gui > x11-libs/gtk+ > media-libs/libsdl > app-emulation/wine xinerama is enabled global in make.conf so everything and the kitchensink should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-02 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/1/1 Michael Mol > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Nuno J. Silva > wrote: > > On 2013-01-01, Stroller wrote: > > > >> On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > >>> ... > >>> The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say > >>> chances are that it will work

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:31:36PM +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > Turns out that it's a character in CJK. > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 > Installed bitstream-cyberbit. > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > http://nileshgr.com Try media-fonts/wqy-zenhei for great display of C

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-01-02 10:24 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> I once had an onboard NIC go bad, and the PCI NIC I substituted for it >> wouldn't work unless the onboard NIC was disabled. So disabling >> onboard hardware may or may not be a net positive. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-02 10:24 AM, Michael Mol wrote: I once had an onboard NIC go bad, and the PCI NIC I substituted for it wouldn't work unless the onboard NIC was disabled. So disabling onboard hardware may or may not be a net positive. ? That was confusing - unless you actually meant that the new PCI

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-01-01 7:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wrote: >>> >>> So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent >>> udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > > >> Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persiste

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> > > Turns out that it's a character in CJK. > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 > Installed bitstream-cyberbit. > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > http://nileshgr.com > Glad it worked. PLEASE - trim your responses when poss

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 08:15:45 PM IST, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, >> etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. >> >> Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > Hi, > > I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, > etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. > > Does anyone know which font to install? > > These are the fonts presently inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:08:57 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > ecryptfs looks easy to use with zfs: > http://pthree.org/2012/08/21/encrypted-zfs-filesystems-on-linux/ I found that one on subsequent googling. I had hoped that it would be included in ZFS, meaning I could replace four layers; RAI

[gentoo-user] Re: Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > Hi, > > I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, > etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. > > Does anyone know which font to install? > > These are the fonts presently installed on my machi

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Philip Webb wrote: > 130102 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: >>> Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: >> If you're the only user of your computer, you could also just unmask >> the version in Portage. The bug is that any user in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013, 15:38:01 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > AFAIK, Oracle included encryption in ZFS v30 but this has not been > released as opensource. The last OSS version released was 28. > > What this means to me is that devs could include disk-encryption but > they probably won't have a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:04:50 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV > > to remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows > > what I want to happen with each "chu

[gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, This has been bugging me for a while... I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this question... Lots of references to the Mangle table, but nothing that really explains what this table is or does, and when or why I would want/need it. Currently, I have this in my

[gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. Does anyone know which font to install? These are the fonts presently installed on my machine - media-fonts/corefonts media-fonts/freefont-ttf me

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:40:29 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog USE="suid" > > has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do not enable it, > > you will not be able to run startx as a regular user. xdm and other > > X lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV to > remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows what I > want to happen with each "chunk" of it. A "chunk" (my term) in this > context is a directory and

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-01 7:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wrote: So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Probably the old (fried) ethernet card is listed there (a

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 02.01.2013 06:25, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: > On 01.01.2013 16:13, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> With that, fullscreen applications work for me. Some still deactivate >> the second display or change the resolution but otherwise it works just >> fine. > > I tried it and it does not help at all, n