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(Anonymous)
7 May 2010, 09:42
IDN Support
Yeah, the look-alike problem bothers me, too... is google.com the same as ɡooɡle.com? (Hint - in the second version, the g's are the symbol u+0261, a Latin Small Letter Script G)
udrepper
7 May 2010, 05:50
Fedora and USB Mobile Broadband
In general I would agree. But

a) the dependency in this case is really small, perhaps smaller than anything used to handle it automatically

b) there is the chicken and egg problem. Without a…
zaitcev
6 May 2010, 18:14
Fedora and USB Mobile Broadband
I don't think adding bogus dependencies is the answer. Since NM is installed on every computer, you essentially make usb_modeswitch installed on every computer.

If NM can ask packagekit to pull the…
(Anonymous)
6 May 2010, 15:23
Fedora and USB Mobile Broadband
Some of those USB sticks can be configured in an always modem mode.

For ex. my ZTE MF626 (and MF636) you just need to enter these commands (using minicom or any other serial terminal program):…
(Anonymous)
2 Mar 2010, 14:31
nscd and DNS TTL
From the glibc 2.8 changelog:

* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2008-04/msg00050.html