From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qib2u-0005Y5-8G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:46:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1FCE21C37F; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468CF21C3AE for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so2348948wwf.10 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:44:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=YkBzlrJ277250xh7mxydNCzbndbCMW77vpTGJpRtTlg=; b=SOQ38e0CTFz1fjSisZ1q0rJG7BZKkimM0QtmNSq5IYBL06FmzwIoHK2z6MhXCRjvA9 82zoAu0T4TOch7rQ/VfGwYtXtc79srQJ/Xg+Ql2MyoucV276T4tSlq7m1DPn/KGKnbOJ G55BkGyxLAYjx9eJ3icQ3J0CT+p8RuVmLPVTk= Received: by 10.227.10.31 with SMTP id n31mr4932635wbn.97.1310946267540; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-57-66.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.57.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fx12sm2975706wbb.59.2011.07.17.16.44.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:44:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way around "Argument list too long"? Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:43:46 +0200 Message-ID: <9642363.IUOUoAKmIz@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.1 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110718001640.612e631d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <6275503.L5GMOjy7mD@nazgul> <20110718001640.612e631d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 07b2d83f484abddfc8e040fc323ad2a5 On Monday 18 July 2011 00:16:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:35:42 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Okay, everyone, back away slowly from this post and then > > > delete it from your cache. The *real* Alan McKinnon does > > > not top post. > > > > He does when his ADSL modem craps out and he's forced to use the > > GMail app thingamajigy on his Android phone :-) > > I'd rather tether my netbook to my phone and stick with real email > :) My old G1 is stuck on Donut :-( Everything from Eclair onwards just kills the poor thing, and tethering never worked reliably. > I hope your employer has better redundancy that you do ;-) Of course :-) Everything on the core network is at least duplicated. As for us plebs at home, our usual backup is the 3G card but between one team member crashing a motorbike badly, another (me) crashing a motorbike poorly, one off sick with flu, one transferred to another team, and everyone at home without petrol (fuel and metal workers strike ... please don't ask), none of us remember where the damn card is anymore. The other redundancy is the back up modem, which I have never needed to use and now suffers from a bad case of electron-rot. OK, it's probably electrolytic caps deteriorated from heat, but electron rot sounds much more dramatic ;-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com