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[QUOTE=gparent;38282008]What's wrong with L2TP/IPSEC ? Normally if you're using a VPN (and routing your traffic through it) you shouldn't need a proxy at all and a proxy will not hinder you. Perhaps a firewall is blocking your VPN connection from being completed? Or if you're behind NAT there are extra things that must be considered. Let us know more about the setup.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure a firewall is setup because the only way I can access the internet is through the provided proxy. And the VPN server doesn't support OpenVPN, unfortunately, and PPTP's the only possibility. With the proxy, it doesn't seem like the server is ever reached, but without the proxy it downright fails immediately. [editline]1st November 2012[/editline] I take back what I said - the VPN configuration works on Windows but not on my copy of Linux. I'm setting up something wrong somehow. :( [editline]1st November 2012[/editline] I had to toy around with the encryption settings. It works at home, now. Let's see how it does tomorrow.
[QUOTE=gparent;38282008]What's wrong with L2TP/IPSEC ?[/QUOTE] L2TP/IPsec both encapsulate data twice, which requires more CPU cycles, thus slowing down the connection (although marginally). OpenVPN also is much more stable, especially on TCP, (but you lose a little speed from encapsulating TCP over TCP, so UDP is a little faster). It's much easier to set up imo. OpenVPN is harder to block (you can use any connection port you want - even 80 or 443), where as L2TP/IPsec use fixed ports for handshakes, NAT traversal, payload and configuration. It's also.. open - hence the name. L2TP/IPsec are just a collection of RFC's with their own implementations on different devices. The only advantage I can think of them over OpenVPN is the built in support for most devices - although it's not hard to jailbreak/root and get a 3rd party OpenVPN app.
[QUOTE=SA Spyder;38281037]Fuck it then. I'm gonna try Ubuntu.[/QUOTE] Hey, what about trying ArchBang out...?
so I'm not alone in the Ubuntu 12.10 woes My friend can't get Ubuntu to boot properly, it just leaves him with a black screen Either that or a purple screen
[QUOTE=Foxconn;38287513]Hey, what about trying ArchBang out...?[/QUOTE] Well I tried a few distros now, none of which particularly like the hybrid graphics idea. And I don't have a BIOS to turn off one of the cards. Only way to boot at all involves purely ghetto procedures, and then it barely half-works. Gah. And it destroyed my Windows 8 install. Fucking EFI.
Decided to install Gentoo again.
Is it me or did anyone else know that Ubuntu's Unity changes colors to fit the desktop background?
[QUOTE=Stonecycle;38301096]Is it me or did anyone else know that Ubuntu's Unity changes colors to fit the desktop background?[/QUOTE] That was a long time ago when it got changed.
Why in the hell do box games require you to have their cd in to play? Tried to get CoD: WaW to work under wine in crossover, installed fine from cd, but I can't run it because it won't accept a symlink to /dev/sr0 as the drive... I guess I'll just stick to steam for now.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;38304818]Why in the hell do box games require you to have their cd in to play?[/QUOTE] DRM.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38250965]Didn't need to backup, formatted the drive and installed mint again. The drive itself is in perfect condition, and I had kept my /home encrypted on another HDD :s[/QUOTE] You're relying on an eight year old IDE HDD with SMART errors? Surely you have backups on another drive?
[QUOTE=Jookia;38305955]You're relying on an eight year old IDE HDD with SMART errors? Surely you have backups on another drive?[/QUOTE] Not anymore. And no, I only keep backups of my /home backing up / would be a smart idea [editline]3rd November 2012[/editline] Also no, it doesn't actually have any SMART errors, that was because of the corrupted FS. That drive is still perfectly healthy although I'm still wary
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38305989]Not anymore. And no, I only keep backups of my /home backing up / would be a smart idea [editline]3rd November 2012[/editline] Also no, it doesn't actually have any SMART errors, that was because of the corrupted FS. That drive is still perfectly healthy although I'm still wary[/QUOTE] Err... [QUOTE] (05) Reallocated Sector Count 253 234 63 10 warning (C5) Current Pending Sector 253 235 0 3 warning[/QUOTE] You have 10 bad sectors. That's likely what caused your fs corruption.
[QUOTE=IpHa;38307365]Err... You have 10 bad sectors. That's likely what caused your fs corruption.[/QUOTE] Those don't seem to be showing in SMART anymore? It was literally the first time I had seen that, and it was after a powercut :v: I'm probably wrong though
[QUOTE=awh;38286271]L2TP/IPsec both encapsulate data twice, which requires more CPU cycles, thus slowing down the connection (although marginally).[/QUOTE] This isn't going to matter for a road warrior, and for a site-to-site setup you don't need to encapsulate twice at all. [QUOTE=awh;38286271]OpenVPN also is much more stable, especially on TCP,[/QUOTE] You actually managed to crash a L2TP/IPSEC tunnel? How? Must be a pretty shitty device. [QUOTE=awh;38286271]It's much easier to set up imo.[/QUOTE] Gonna agree with you on that one, OpenVPN is so trivial compared to almost anything. [QUOTE=awh;38286271]It's also.. open - hence the name. L2TP/IPsec are just a collection of RFC's with their own implementations on different devices.[/QUOTE] I haven't had any issues interconnecting Cisco with Windows Server and what not. What platforms did you have interoperability problems with? Don't mind my questions, I like OpenVPN, but in enterprise.. ugh.
Quick Question, when i type umask in terminal on solaris, it says 0770, may i know what the first 0 means? [B]0[/B]770 ^
[QUOTE=gparent;38309142]You actually managed to crash a L2TP/IPSEC tunnel? How? Must be a pretty shitty device.[/quote] I've never managed to crash one, but I've made the speeds deteriorate into shit by maxing out the bandwidth with torrents/http at the same time. It happens on OpenVPN too - but you can fix it easily by lowering the mssfix/fragment (MTU) values. Not sure if you can do that on L2TP/IPsec. [QUOTE=gparent;38309142] I haven't had any issues interconnecting Cisco with Windows Server and what not. What platforms did you have interoperability problems with?[/QUOTE] Oh, it wasn't an inoperability problem, just that it's open and nice and full of rainbows. Linux guys like us like that, right? You can go and hack on the code if you want and put up a custom build to use. [QUOTE=marcus5;38310285]Quick Question, when i type umask in terminal on solaris, it says 0770, may i know what the first 0 means? [B]0[/B]770 ^[/QUOTE] It's if it has the setuid, gid or sticky bit.
Seriously, does anyone know about ATI with Linux? I hear that is a common problem reaching high FPS in games like Minecraft. Yea really i can't even get Minecraft going at a decent speed? What is this.
ATI GPUs under Linux lol
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;38314676]ATI GPUs under Linux lol[/QUOTE] I'm not sure what you're trying at here. My desktop is running ATi HD 4670 with open source drivers and icedtea/OpenJDK to run Minecraft. Works fine.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;38314676]ATI GPUs under Linux lol[/QUOTE] I can't help I got ATI/AMD.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;38314735]I'm not sure what you're trying at here. My desktop is running ATi HD 4670 with open source drivers and icedtea/OpenJDK to run Minecraft. Works fine.[/QUOTE] In my experience, using an AMD/ATI card under Linux is a recipe for headaches Catalyst is just terrible and the open source drivers don't always works right
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;38314735]I'm not sure what you're trying at here. My desktop is running ATi HD 4670 with open source drivers and icedtea/OpenJDK to run Minecraft. Works fine.[/QUOTE] I got ATI Radeon HD 5670, Ubuntu 12.10 (Unity, MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon, doesn't really matter what i try) I get icedtea/OpenJDK from software center (java 7) and I get 27 FPS if I downgrade ALL my graphics. [editline]4th November 2012[/editline] And the lag kills me
OpenJDK 6 is better at Minecraft, at least for me.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;38315777]OpenJDK 6 is better at Minecraft, at least for me.[/QUOTE] Maybe problem is just I think I suck at getting my drivers correct, got a friend that get's 300 FPS, wow.
Another hard drive died... good thing it has a 5 year warranty. <3 backups [code] Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 080 080 036 Pre-fail Always - 415 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 479 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 479 Conveyance offline Completed: electrical failure 20% 22440 0 Short offline Completed: electrical failure 60% 22440 0 [/code] First time I've seen that error in smartctl. Trying to wipe it with dd, is "b-r-r-r-r-r-r- eeeeeeeeeee click click b-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r" the noise it's supposed to make? =P
[QUOTE=IpHa;38316261]Another hard drive died... good thing it has a 5 year warranty. <3 backups [code] Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 080 080 036 Pre-fail Always - 415 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 479 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 479 Conveyance offline Completed: electrical failure 20% 22440 0 Short offline Completed: electrical failure 60% 22440 0 [/code] First time I've seen that error in smartctl. Trying to wipe it with dd, is "b-r-r-r-r-r-r- eeeeeeeeeee click click b-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r" the noise it's supposed to make? =P[/QUOTE] Nope. dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1K
Anyone know of any text based interfaces (like vmw, dvtm, twin etc.) that actually have working bloody packages (+ dependencies) in Ubuntu/Debian? Would sound like a nice work environment when I'm at school, SSH in with Putty and then do shit in that.
[QUOTE=nikomo;38318397]Anyone know of any text based interfaces (like vmw, dvtm, twin etc.) that actually have working bloody packages (+ dependencies) in Ubuntu/Debian? Would sound like a nice work environment when I'm at school, SSH in with Putty and then do shit in that.[/QUOTE] They don't work? Try to compile them yourself maybe?
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;38318603]They don't work? Try to compile them yourself maybe?[/QUOTE] If they even have a package, they usually have a dependency on some obscure old package that no longer exists. I tried compiling a couple of them myself, but all the ones I tried suffer from the same dependency problem, it would appear they're just old as shit and forgotten.
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