Re: You are a broken record (was Re: friend cannot see me on msn)

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Paul Johnson wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/21/08 12:08, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>> Andreas Berglund wrote:
>>>> I just added a friend of mine on msn. I can see her and I can send
>>>> messages to her but when I'm online it looks to her like I'm offline
>>>> and none of her messages reach me. She tried to send an invitation to
>>>> me several times but none of them reached me. I have no idea where to
>>>> even begin looking so any help would be very much appreciated.
>>>> The client I'm using is kopete 0.12.3, I don't know what client my
>>>> friend uses but if you need to know I can ask her and I'd be happy to
>>>> provide any other information that might be relevant.
>>>>
>>> MSN was obsoleted years ago when XMPP became the standard for IM.  Have
>>> you considered joining us in this millennium and dropping the
>>> proprietary IM systems entirely?
>> Only if he wants to give up his non-tech friends that wouldn't know an
>> XMPP from an STD, and don't really give a rat's arse.
>>
> Ron, if you can't be nice, please leave the Debian lists.  You've been
> nothing but obnoxious in every reply to one of my messages for months
> now.  It's not appreciated, nor welcome, here.

Lolz :D


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Re: Please follow list guidelines [was ... Re: USB ownership]

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Chris Bannister wrote:

[ .. ]

> [120 odd lines snipped]
> 
> Hey, come on guys, how about following the netiquette and snipping
> unnecessary content and replying inline to each point in turn?

I agree. We need some list etiquette.

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Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental

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Bob Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 18:47:07 -0700, Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote: 

[ .. ]

>> The most recent obvious candidate change is the most recent kernel update,
>> which I did shortly before the first freeze. This was the upgrade to
>> linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-9.

.26-1-686 running fine here if its of help

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Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

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Magnus Pedersen wrote:
> I had the same problems with kde, my strategy was to install the bits I
> knew I needed. For instance, I needed kdm and kwin so I installed those,
> realised I needed konqueror as well and installed that and so fort...

Probably off-topic but nonetheless helpful but KDE on Lenny right now is
best served by installing "kde-minimal" for a start and then building on
from there. Just thought I'd point it out.

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Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

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en0f wrote:
> Probably off-topic but nonetheless helpful but KDE on Lenny right now is
s/KDE/KDE4/g


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Re: Xorg - nv - 8600GT blank screen problem.

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Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
> I am having issues with my new video card MSI 8600GT. Xorg fires up
> properly and everything is fine as long as I am within X. The moment
> I try to switch one of the VCs (c-a-f1/2 etc) or exit X,  all I get is
> blank screen and no response from KB/mouse etc. Soon the monitor goes
> into power save. The only way to fix is reboot. Occasionally, I will see
> blank screen with X running having very similar syptoms.
> 
> I have noticed that Xorg runs with almost 100% cpu utilization whenever
> blank screen event happens. Also, with my prior card I did not have this
> problem (prior card was EVGA nvidia 7600GS)

[ .. ]

http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers


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Re: intrusion detection

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David Bernier wrote:

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I'd like to know about ideas for security, including for example 
intrusion-detection systems.


Usually a properly configured iptables should do but if you want maybe 
extra protection I guess you should start with snort.


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Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

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MLewis wrote:

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> AFAIK, I have no nv.ko nor nvidia.ko files present on the system.

$ find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -name 'nv*'
/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/char/nvram.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/nvidia
/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/nvidia/nvidia.ko


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Re: USB drive not ready

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Hugo Wau wrote:
My external 500 GB USB drive had never worked immediately, but when it 
was warmed up, it finally connected and could be used. But now have I 
come to a point, that the connection does not work any more - not with 
ohci_hcd, nor with ehci_hcd, when the letter "o" (in *o*hci_hcd) gets 
replace by an "e" in error messages like this:


usb-storage: device found at 6
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04b4, idProduct=6830
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=56, Product=78, SerialNumber=100
usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0 Storage Device
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
scsi 10:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery


I am pretty sure this is hardware problem. Check that it works under 
other OS and make sure the cablings and USB2IDE adapters are OK.



   1. Which kernel modules are needed (and which are to be avoided) for
  to connect an external USB hard drive to the system successfully?


With a USB2IDE adapter plugged into a 1TB IDE drive running on one of my 
lenny box, lsmod gives me -


ehci_hcd   28428  0
uhci_hcd   18672  0
usbcore118160  8 
usb_storage,rndis_host,cdc_ether,usbnet,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

usb_storage75936  3
scsi_mod  129356  3 sd_mod,usb_storage,libata


   3. What should the /etc/fstab look like for which kernel version?


/dev/sdb2  /mnt/extras   ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro   0   0

An internal 250GB IDE disk is populated at boot time in /dev/ using 
either sd_mod or scsi_mod (Not too sure on this one).


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Re: more openssh trouble?

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markus reichelt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/Vulnerability_Advisory_SSH.txt
> 
> how does one switch from CBC mode to CTR mode?

>From sshd_config(5)-

Ciphers
 Specifies the ciphers allowed for protocol version 2.  Multiple
 ciphers must be comma-separated.  The supported ciphers are
 ``3des-cbc'', ``aes128-cbc'', ``aes192-cbc'', ``aes256-cbc'',
 ``aes128-ctr'', ``aes192-ctr'', ``aes256-ctr'', ``arcfour128'',
 ``arcfour256'', ``arcfour'', ``blowfish-cbc'', and
 ``cast128-cbc''.  The default is:

aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,
arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,aes128-ctr,
aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr


So, get rid of cbc to ctr in your sshd_config file (typically found in 
/etc/ssh/).




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Re: Setting up a USB WiFi adapter from the terminal

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Sam Kuper wrote:
> Dear all,
> I've just installed Etch on a Thinkpad 240 and installed a Netgear WG111v3
> USB WiFi adapter according to the instructions
> here.
> Now I need to configure it so that it will connect to my wireless access
> point (a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, in case that's significant) over WPA-Personal
> using AES.
> 
> Suppose my access point's SSID was 'MyAccessPoint' and my WPA key was
> 'someoldwpakey', how would I go about doing this (without using any
> desktop/windowed utilities, because I don't have adesktop environment or
> window manager installed)?
> 
> Here's how far I've got.
> 
> I've read:
> 
>- http://wiki.debian.org/WPA
>- man wireless
>- man iwconfig
>- man iwpriv
>- man iwevent
>- man interfaces
>- man ifup
>- man ifdown
>- man iwspy
>- man iwlist
>- view /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian
> 
> I've made the following entry in /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> [quote]
> allow-hotplug wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wireless-essid MyAccessPoint
> wireless-key someoldwpakey
> [/quote]
> 
> And if I now run 'ifup -a' then 'iwconfig' gives:
> 
> [quote]
> lo no wireless extensions
> 
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
>  Mode:Managed  Frequency:1256.85 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>  Bit Rate:54Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
>  RTS thr:2347 BFragment thr:2346 B
>  Encryption key:off
>  Power Management:off
>  Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0
> [/quote]
> 
> Clearly, the Thinkpad isn't aware of the access point yet, so at this point,
> I'd be very grateful for any help you can offer!


You need wpa_supplicant -

everest:~# aptitude search wpasupplicant
p   wpasupplicant- Client support for 
WPA and WPA2 (IEEE
802.11i)


Hth.


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Re: Setting up a USB WiFi adapter from the terminal

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Sam Kuper wrote:
> 2008/11/23 en0f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[ ... ]

> Thanks for the pointer. I had been a bit puzzled about that, because of
> being able to supposedly configure wifi via /etc/network/interfaces, but
> I've installed the wpasupplicant package now and - after a lengthy bout with
> the READMEs, it's working fine :)
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Sam

Heh no worries. Thats the whole reason excellent man pages and /usr/share/doc/ 
exist ;-)

Have fun.




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