On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:32:28 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > But harmless. The severe delays you noticed were the result of a
> > broken modem/router failing to recognise that IPv6 was not available
> > and trying to use it anyway. The usual fix for such a problem is a
> > firmware update.
>
>
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:25:18AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
> But harmless. The severe delays you noticed were the result of a
> broken modem/router failing to recognise that IPv6 was not available
> and trying to use it anyway. The usual fix for such a problem is a
> firmware update.
It's mo
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:34:15 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > Blaming the devs for your broken modem/router is rather unfair. If
> > you'd known it was unable to handle IPv6 correctly, why didn't you
> > set the flag accordingly?
>
> My ISP didn't support ipv6 at that time. They're now running
Walter Dnes wrote:
So you see, I did learn from my "experience". I do check for stuff
like this now. As an additional safety measure, I also begin the USE
variable with "-*".
I'm starting to like the way Walter thinks. LOL
Dale
:-) :-)
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:21:33AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
> Blaming the devs for your broken modem/router is rather unfair. If
> you'd known it was unable to handle IPv6 correctly, why didn't you
> set the flag accordingly?
My ISP didn't support ipv6 at that time. They're now running a bet
On 2010/11/18 06:25AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> How does it differ from screen? Is it sufficiently better to relearn
> keystrokes etc?
The major difference is that you can split the screen into panes,
showing multiple ptys at the same time (similar to vim's :[v]sp, layout
wise). Besides that, I thin
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:46:16 +, Stroller wrote:
> If you're not using a GUI terminal emulator with a scrollbar, then may
> I respectfully suggest you install `tmux` (a replacement for GNU
> `screen`) and use it. It takes a little while to get familiar with it,
> and with its keybindings and st
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:20:25 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Because I don't want a repeat of the ipv6 fiasco where I had an almost
> non-functional browser, mediaplayer (for internet files), etc, etc.
Hardly non-functional - desperately slow maybe but far from
non-functional. Blaming the devs for
On 18/11/2010, at 12:20am, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:41:45PM +, Stroller wrote
>
>> It's probably fixed in one of the updates! Why are you posting before
>> you checked that!?!?
>
> It started happening suddenly And yes, I did search bugzilla,
> although I admit my se
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:20 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Walter
Dnes did opine thusly:
> Because I don't want a repeat of the ipv6 fiasco where I had an almost
> non-functional browser, mediaplayer (for internet files), etc, etc. And
> I also had to run "emerge --newuse --update wor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:41:45PM +, Stroller wrote
> It's probably fixed in one of the updates! Why are you posting before
> you checked that!?!?
It started happening suddenly And yes, I did search bugzilla,
although I admit my searches aren't always perfect. And if "emerge
--sync" out
On 17/11/2010, at 12:25am, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I have a main machine and a backup machine. The main machine is 64-bit
> and the backup is 32-bit, but otherwise very similar setup. I
> haven't updated the backup (32-bit machine) for a while,
> ... there are
> 151 lines of output in file x and
> do so today (115 packages emerge). I normally...
>
> emerge -pv --deep --update world | less
>
> ...before updating, to check for booby-traps. Today, the output on the
> backup machine blasted to screen, and did not stop until finished.
> Meanwhile, the bottom of the screen shows "lines 1-4/4 (
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