On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:26 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Remember arts and esd? They went the way of HAL. Nuff said. The
> thing to remember is that humans cannot multitask audio very well.
Have you ever been talking to someone when the fire alarm went off? Then
you'd realise we can multitas
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
Dale 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 so they can w
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 ag
What do you guys use to manage access to your company's Wifi?
I got to research how to provide access for the customers of my client,
people waiting for getting their cars fixed ...
It should be easy to provide them with access while on the other hand it
should be loggable, controllable, etc.
I
Over the last couple of weeks I noticed that when I click on a URL in an email
I get libreoffice launching a few seconds after Konqueror has opened up the URL.
I think this started happening after the recent update of KDE to 4.7.4 and
after the initial "what the ... " it is now becoming annoying
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 08:48:28 Michael Mathurin wrote:
> Dale 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
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:26 -0500
"Walter Dnes" wrote:
> An answer from a different Walter ...
>
> > I also don't use pulse - plain ALSA is good enough for me - but
> > looking over the design goals for pulseaudio I see a decent attempt
> > to deal with audio properly for the future. These da
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 coul
Hi all,
I have been a former user, and in my new occupation I think Gentoo could
be a perfect tool.
Context
- I admin a server for PHP and Java Web developers
- I have to run a Gentoo host which have LXC guests (also Gentoo-only).
- About the LXC guests
-- 1 LXC guest with PHP4 (with custom ./
Helllo,
I have installed xorg-server on a mac G5 (ppc64, 32 bit userland). I
configured the kernel for xorg according to the gentoo xorg howto.
However, the server will not start:
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jan 26 08:57:27 2012
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/
On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
But...
- Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW
This isn't Java. To install Oracle's Java on Gentoo, simply emerge
"dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin" and you're set.
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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
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 profil
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
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
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
> 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 https://panopticlick.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, 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. S
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 ver
Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, 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
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>
>> But...
>> - Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW
>>
>
> This isn't Java. To install Oracle's Java on Gentoo, simply emerge
> "dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin" a
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dale wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, 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 cou
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> As you may have gathered from my posts yesterday, I'm working on
> adding IPv6 to an embedded device (actually a family of serial device
> servers).
>
> I've got the device working fine with link-local addressing, but I'm
> not sure what the
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
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
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
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Neil Bothwick 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 glean fro
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
> > >
>
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
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 pa
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, 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 fingerprin
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, 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
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, 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.
>
> 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 :)
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
> >
On 26 January 2012 16:18, Michael Hampicke 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 it. I wi
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Dale 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 assumed they were
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> An answer from a different Walter ...
>
>> I also don't use pulse - plain ALSA is good enough for me - but looking
>> over the design goals for pulseaudio I see a decent attempt to deal
>> with audio properly for the future. These days we have
> 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 a
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 int
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri
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 machine that contains no oth
Am 26.01.2012 11:07, schrieb Mick:
> On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 08:48:28 Michael Mathurin wrote:
>> Dale 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 th
> 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 an
Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 09:18:03 schrieb Mick:
> Over the last couple of weeks I noticed that when I click on a URL in an
> email I get libreoffice launching a few seconds after Konqueror has opened
> up the URL.
>
> I think this started happening after the recent update of KDE to 4.7.4 an
On 2012-01-26 12:22, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I'm not opening up a debate and preparing an argument, I really want to
> know what you think about this matter.
I apologize for "butting" in...
Here's what *I* think about it (well, this is not about Pulseaudio
specifically but I'm sure you'll get the
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
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 09:18:03 schrieb Mick:
>> Over the last couple of weeks I noticed that when I click on a URL in an
>> email I get libreoffice launching a few seconds after Konqueror has opened
>> up the URL.
>>
>> I t
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick 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 Firefox for normal
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick 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, Yo
Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 14:51:45 schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer
wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 09:18:03 schrieb Mick:
> >> Over the last couple of weeks I noticed that when I click on a URL in
> >> an
> >> email I get libreoffice
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:16, Dale wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, 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
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
> >
Hi all,
a few days ago i had to reinstall my gentoo box. while doing so, various
ebuilds failed while trying to copy some documentation.
I don't have the doc use flag enabled, so i found it weird that emerge was
looking for it. My temporary fix was to enable the doc flag on a per
package basis, but
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:12:39 +
Neil Bothwick 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 not just
> 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 p
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 k
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 t
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, 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:
> >> >>
> >> >> You
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
I was contacted too, but I think they were swayed by my sig. Anyway, no
further contact once I told them a
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:38 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>> >
>> >> >>> I guess you mean https://panopticlick.e
Rather than keep music on my hard drive, I'm going the "cloud" route
by keeping a list of my favourite Youtube clips. Ideally, I'd like
something that I can activate from the command line, and even launch
Firefox. sqlite is overkill in terms of features/size. Is there
something smaller. It do
On 01/26/2012 03:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW
This isn't Java.
Yes, sorry, this is not Java, it's Oracle DB, but I'll have to setup an
Oracle database too.
Is it really that complicated for that particular software?
--
RMA.
James Broadhead 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 different people.
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 w
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:19:38 +0300
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> On 01/26/2012 03:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW
> > This isn't Java.
>
> Yes, sorry, this is not Java, it's Oracle DB, but I'll have to setup
> an Oracle databas
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