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[arch-general] Autowifi not in AUR
by ludovic coues 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi listmates, I've seen sometimes ago a link to autowifi. And I wonder why this one can't be found in AUR. I'm using autowifi since I found it, and it's great. No need to care about anything when wpa_supplicant have a right config. Just open a browser, and go on. It could be a great app in the the repo, but without any trace in the AUR, we can't vote for it, and I wonder how it can be add to the repo if it have no vote... 'cause wlan0 haven't to be more complicated than eth0. -ludovic

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Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent?? [solved - sort of]
by Smith Dhumbumroong 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi, I also have the problem same you described on Openbox + Xcompmgr. I "solved" it by disable guest's 3D acceleration. Another solution is to disable the composite. I'm using radeon driver so I guess this problem might have more to do with VirtualBox or KDE's widget/theme engine than the driver it self (I might be wrong, though). Regards, Smith Dhumbumroong

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[arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, When I need to run apps a root for configuration purposes like kate, or konqueror "File Management", I either put the command in the Alt+F2 run dialog or create a menu entry and then check [ ] run as different users and put 'root' in the different user text box. Even though I have configured sudo I am inevitably prompte for a password. With suse we "patched" this by using kwriteconfig as your regular user: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo This wasn't the "recommended" way, but it was the way most chose to get around a mess with kdesu. When I try and access the apps I want to run as root, not only do I get the initial password prompt, but I get a second prompt after the app is closed. That has left me scratching my head. The other option is just to create the menu entries as "sudo command" which doesn't complain wheen opening whatever I need. What says the braintrust? Is this an arch issue or is it a kdemod issue? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 14 May '09

14 May '09

Listmates, I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at f8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel The Intel modules loaded are: snd 65928 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_hda_codec 68112 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hda_intel 29256 1 snd_page_alloc 9760 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_pcm 80920 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine. However, if I log out and then back it, most times the sound is gone -- dead. The sound will not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any ideas on what to check or what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas on how to bring the sound back once it dies without having to reboot? Thanks for any help you can provide. I always hated chasing sound problems. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?
by Sergey Manucharian 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi folks, It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't work anymore, or I'm missing something? ----------------------8<---------------------- Section "InputDevice" ..... Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru,am" Option "XkbVariant" ",phonetic,phonetic" ..... EndSection ----------------------8<---------------------- The only way I can set up the kbd layout is the using "setxkbmap" with the same settings in my "~/.xinitrc". Is it a bug of a "feature" of the new X? Cheers, Sergey

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[arch-general] Gnome update failed
by Manolo 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman -Syu, this error message showed up: usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null When I rebooted, I couldn't enter into Gnome again. The only thing I could see was a gray screen, but with the compiz effects activated (cube). I tried to downgrade and to force the installation of the package gnome, xorg-server and so on, but nothing happened. Now, I'm usin LXDE (a nice DE, by the way), but the update of gnome package keeps failing. Anyone with this trouble, any ideas about solving this issue? Thanks, Manolo.

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[arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates: Needing to spruce up the cube caps on cube rotation in compiz (the old opensuse artwork just wouldn't do), I started messing around with some of the archlinux-artwork. I found one that I like and then added some finishing touches in gimp. A screenshot of the resulting cubecaps and desktop is here: [69k] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-cyl.jpg The actual cubecap file is found here: [450k due to transparency] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-compizcaps.p… Use it at will. If you have no interest, just hit [del]. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update, my kdm3 is crashing with each user logout. Basically, on logout you are dumped back to tty1 and must then login and issue kdm3 restart to restore the display manager. I am using the radeonhd driver. Before the latest update this didn't occur. What can I check to get information to help solve this puzzle? I've checked /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log, but nothing is out of the ordinary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update to kernel26 2.6.29.3-1, opera is segfaulting for some reason. Opera doesn't event splash anything on the screen, it just dies. Here is what I get from the cli: 23:28 alchemy:~> opera -debugxerror opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0 I have no idea what a BadAtom is or if that is the problem. I haven't run across anything else in the past hour since the update. What should I check? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] new Ruby on Rails page on the wiki
by Sébastien Duquette 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I created a Ruby on Rails page on the wiki. It's not really long but the basis is there to quickly set up a rails application. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RubyOnRails As always, please feel free to comment and edit the wiki. Sébastien Duquette

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Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Aaron Schaefer 12 May '09

12 May '09

Since I can't reply to the dev mailing list thread: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias(a)justdreams.de> wrote: >> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: >> That means all plugins need to be rebuild and some users that set fixed >> pathes in .vimrc will have to adjust. > > Looks like we have a new rebuild list then: > > $ pacman -Sqs vim- ... This will mean that all plugin packages will have to be rebuilt for each minor Vim release? Is that how other distro's handle it? Seems a bit odd... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Tobias Kieslich 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view/rview}" before you run "sudo pacman -Syu" -T

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub2 image support
by Damjan Georgievski 12 May '09

12 May '09

Maybe the "General Discussion about Arch Linux" mail list is better place about this? (ps. I just now notice http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general - the description has a typo "Discusson") On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 00:23, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > For those of you who are using grub2 and are interested in making your > boot selection menu a bit nicer, the newly uploaded grub2 supports > backgrounds and stuff. > > Config syntax in your grub.cfg is similar to: > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then > set gfxmode="1024x768x32" > insmod gfxterm > insmod vbe > terminal_output gfxterm > if terminal_output gfxterm; then true ; else > terminal gfxterm > fi > fi > insmod tga > background_image /boot/grub/archlinux.tga > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > though obviously a background image is not included. Other image types > should work as well if you load the correct modules (see the .mod > files in /boot/grub) > > Ronald > > ps. I had to add a bdf-unifont package to the repo in order to make it > work a bit easier. It is now a makedepend of grub2. > -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0)
by Grigorios Bouzakis 12 May '09

12 May '09

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:03:43AM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 02:06:31 schrieb Dan McGee: > > Yes, of course. I think we can take some time to let it bake, as there > > is not an immediate need, and when 5.0 comes out we can move it to > > core and then rebuild libarchive with support for both. > > Sure, no need to hurry. Slackware has achieved a decrease of size from 1,9GB > to 1,4GB of their main repo. Our ratio should be lower as we don't have source > packages in our repos. But it should be easy to test once the tools are ready. > (du -h;gunzip *.gz;xz *.tar;du -h) Just for the record, Slackware didnt move the sources to xz. Just the compiled packages. The descrease in size you are reffering to is more or less correct. My local rsynced tree is 1.6Gb with .xz while it was around 2.0Gb with .tgz. The gain should be 20-25% from what i can estimate. -- Greg

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[arch-general] Dovecot
by Baho Utot 12 May '09

12 May '09

Anyone got a simple configuration file ( dovecot.conf ) that has simple auth login? like clear text? thanks

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[arch-general] Gnome - Nautilus and Evolution, Fresh Install
by Baho Utot 11 May '09

11 May '09

I have just completed a new install using the latest Install/Live CD 2009.02 I followed the Beginners Guide (exactly :) including the update. I continued until I finished with install Xorg and Gnome. After setting up .xinitrc to run Gnome I issued a startx to start Xorg and Gnome. 1. When clicking the "Users home dir icon" to launch Nautilus and browsing to test it, I then clicked the "X" to stop the app from running ( upper right on the window ) Nautilus crashed and Gnome restarted, cleared the desktop (refreshed) and generated a bug report to be set to gnome.org (via bug buddy). 2. After installing Evolution ans running the app I made some errors when I initially set it up for my imap server. Clicking/running from the Edit->Preferences menu caused evolution to crash and generating a bug report. I can not use the Edit->Preferences menu at all, making the evolution installation worthless as I can not change any settings. How stable is Gnome on Arch Linux? I need to move from KDE3 to Gnome until KDE4 is finished and debugged. Comments/Fixes Anyone? Thanks

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[arch-general] requesting mysql man pages
by Felipe Tanus 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi all, It's me or the mysql package don't come with man pages? I guess that would be good to have manpages for stuff like mysqlcheck, mysqldump, mysqlshow... Is there a reason for it not be avaliable at the mysql package? thanks for your time! []'s -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fotanus(a)gmail.com Blog: http://fotanus.blogspot.com/ Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ ----- Aperture Science: We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead

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[arch-general] xorg trouble
by Baho Utot 10 May '09

10 May '09

I have done a new install using the 2009-02 install cd Then sync and updated the system with pacman install alsa and the xorg I have installed hal and it is running When I start xorg I get no "X" on the screen. Thanks

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[arch-general] Strange wpa_supplicant error
by Edgar Kalkowski 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hello Arch! I’m connecting to my WPA2 encrypted wireless network via wpa_supplicant. The configuration in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this: network={ ssid="Hochst van Vaarenhochst" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK proto=WPA pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP psk="my_really_very_secret_passphrase" } I start wpa_supplicant in rc.local (and also start dhclient afterwards) and usually everything works just fine. I’m connected to my WLAN after startup and can surf the internet. However sometimes it occurs that wpa_supplicant does not reach the “Completed” stage but rather remains in the “4-Way-Handshake” stage forever. When observing wpa_supplicant e.g. via wpa_cli it writes “Associated to <bssid>” with the correct bssid of my access point on and on and on ... A log file that was generated by $ wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd > bug.txt can be found at http://xpeter.de/bug.txt. The described behaviour occurs randomly on startup or wakeup from suspend and usually even a reboot does not fix this problem (just time or many reboots does). I’ve also tried to restart my WLAN router but that did also not solve the problem. Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong or what could cause this error? Or, if not, does someone know where I could post this error to people who know? Best regards! Edgar PS: wpa_supplicant is version 0.6.9 and I’m on stock 2.6.29-ARCH kernel with ndiswrapper driver for my “Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter” (as madwifi did not work half a year back when I tried). Anything else I could provide that might help?

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[arch-general] Transmission package out of date
by Brendan Fahy 10 May '09

10 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The package Transmission-gtk has been out of date for some time now. I sent an e-mail to the package maintainer a few months ago with an updated PKGBUILD and never received a response. To update the package all that is required is changing the version number and check sums. # Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com> # Contributor: Brendan Fahy <brendan(a)f4hy.com> pkgname=transmission-gtk pkgver=1.60 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client (GTK+ GUI)" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.transmissionbt.com/" license=('MIT') depends=('curl' 'libnotify' 'desktop-file-utils' 'hicolor-icon-theme') makedepends=('intltool') optdepends=('notification-daemon: Desktop notification support') replaces=('transmission') install=transmission-gtk.install source=(http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-$pkgver.tar.… md5sums=('8b30cf189240f0c50ccd11c618a6906a') build() { ~ cd "$srcdir/transmission-$pkgver" ~ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-wx --disable-cli --disable-daemon || return 1 ~ make || return 1 ~ make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1 ~ # Remove web client ~ rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/share/transmission" || return 1 ~ install -D -m644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/transmission-gtk/COPYING" || return 1 } - -- Brendan Fahy <brendan(a)f4hy.com> www.f4hy.com 714.310.7627 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoGNvQACgkQO7SvxW5E8xrD2ACeJSI/rIVyIIc2C6k9fp2AaxgX QAEAn05okb3D0aCzuGotE1lrqQXPeoHI =MLjp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig prevents compiz start with radeonhd
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 10 May '09

10 May '09

Listmates, I thought I would pass along a bug and a solution. I struggled trying to get compiz running on my arch x86_64 install on my laptop with the radeonhd driver for my x1200 card. After pulling my xorg.conf apart, swapping between the radeon and radeonhd driver and posting to the compiz list, I got the solution from a reply on the compiz list. The problem is with the archlinux default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config supplied along with the compiz-fusion-kde package. The default is: [kde_session] profile = For some reason this prevents compiz from starting with either the radeon or radeonhd driver. SYMPTOMS: Upon Compiz start, the display behaves exactly like it is going to work. The display goes blank, sequentially erasing and redrawing each window, but then it never actually starts. The windows are just left there with no decor. You can sill provide input to them, but you cannot move or resize them. Issuing kwin --replace & causes the reverse to happen (windows destroyed, black screen, windows then redrawn with kde decor. SOLUTION(S): From the compiz list, the suggestion was made to go ahead and let compiz try to start. Since you still have input capability, issue ccsm from the command line and then configure compiz forcing a new config to be written, then reload compiz. I did the equivalent, but took a shortcut by simply rsyncing ~/.config/compiz from another working machine. Problem solved. REMAINING ISSUES WITH ARCH GLX: When issuing glxinfo from a konsole cli as $USER everything works fine. However, if you are su to root $UID then glxinfo fails: [23:07 alchemy:/home/david] # glxinfo No protocol specified Error: unable to open display :0.0 Dunno if this is a bug or feature, but I thought I would pass it along. I'll file a bug report on the default config issue, fixing it will save a lot of folks a lot of heartache and newbies from thinking Linux doesn't work. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] vi/vim/gvim without ruby support
by Tobias Kieslich 09 May '09

09 May '09

Allan, the ruby in testing as of 3 days ago. That would be 1.8 I think. we can build gvim(the only one with ruby enabled) without ruby support for the time being. I don't think that many people actually script vim with ruby and there aren't all that many ruby-vim scripts out there. Now I can be wrong, but I think it's only fair to NOT let gvim stall the ruby packages. Once we have ruby 1.9* support in vim we enable it again. No big deal. As for the OP: vim is a symlink to vim-normal because upon installation of gvim it becomes a symlink to vim-full (more powerful, better script support, etc ... all the bells and whistles) where gvim will be a symlink to the same binary it just automatically invokes it with GUI support. That's just how vim works. -T On Sat, 09 May 2009, Allan McRae wrote: > Kessia 'even' Pinheiro wrote: >> Hi all, >> Tobias, i`m without a machine, so, i can`t check the vim version. Did you >> compile new vim with witch version of ruby? >> > > It will be with ruby-1.8 because 1.9 is not in the repos yet... I am > waiting for the vi(m)'s to move out of [testing] before I do the ruby > update. > > Allan > >

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[arch-general] bluez
by Juan Diego 09 May '09

09 May '09

hello everyone I was having some troubles using my bluetooth headsets with bluez 4.37, I got some extrange "unable to open seid 64" errors, so I updated the PKGBUILD to 4.39 version now it works perfectly the only changes to the PKGBUILD were the pkgver and md5sums variables I attach the src.tar.gz in case someone is having the same problem have a nice day

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hi fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14568 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14565 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11778 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] (partially) Inactive
by bardo 07 May '09

07 May '09

2009/5/6 Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org>: >> I am an university student so I can use from 08AM to 07PM (GMT+1) the >> wireless connection at my university but it is over HTTP proxy: I will >> cannot use ssh/cvs/git/ftp/irc/jabber protocols. >> >> I hope to be totally active soon. > > You should complain about that. In my eyes, having internet access without > these basic services is no internet access at all, and whoever the admin is > (or the guy who tells the admin what to do) is a moron that still lives in > the past. > That's pretty normal in Italian universities. They tend to lock you out from everything, sometimes because they fear what you could do and sometimes because of nearly-fascist laws that would oblige them to log everything. Filtering out is easier, and it really helps with bureaucracy. That said, I once managed, as a student, to meet the whole IT team in my university, and in an official encounter I demanded to open at least some more ports... You see, there are exams where you *have* to use CVS/SVN for your projects, and the ports are filtered out from the inside. It's not an annoyance, it's just plain stupid: you often work with people who live very far from the city and you can't work together at the university. Well, they refused to open ports citing legislations, the need to filter p2p apps, the heaviness of level 7 filters... Heck, we didn't even have IMAP! I told them that, with https open, we could tunnel everything where we wanted. They know it and don't care, because it's a really small niche of students that can do it. I can assure you that I was very, very tempted to write an easy to use tunneling app and publish it for all the students to use. This is the situation in a country that is in the G8 ("economic power" my ass) for unknown reasons... old tech, misunderstandings and censorship. Sorry for the rant. Corrado

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