Re: [arch-general] Can a ISP modify incoming http traffic to display ads using transparent proxy server ?

2011-04-02 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 02/04/11 12:38, Isaac Dupree wrote: What happens if you go to an https: site? The data generally cannot be modified between the server and your browser in that case. Also... your in-browser proxy choice works around the ISP proxy? Interesting. (Is the cable operator trying to be unpopula

[arch-general] Can a ISP modify incoming http traffic to display ads using transparent proxy server ?

2011-04-01 Thread Partha Chowdhury
My ISP is running a transparent proxy server on port 80 as I found out from this thread http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-March/019172.html Now from last two or three days, I keep getting pop-up ads from a particular domain on every website i go to - even on text only we

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 19:38, Thomas Bächler wrote: You cannot "hide" yourself on the internet. If you were offline, the next router would reply that your machine is unreachable. By not answering, you not only tell the "attacker" that you are online, you also tell him that you don't know shit about network

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 14:20, Jan de Groot wrote: This is usually caused by a transparent proxy. When nmap hits port 80, it will get redirected to the proxy server. Try doing an nmap -sV and you'll see what software is running on the proxyserver. While googling for ways of detecting transparent proxy th

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 16:25, Thomas Bächler wrote: This comes with our iptables package: $ cat /etc/iptables/simple_firewall.rules *filter :INPUT DROP [0:0] :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 15:58, Jan de Groot wrote: The threat here is that your ISP will log every page visit you do and also has the ability to block certain websites. The only thing you can do is setting up a tunnel or using a different proxyserver that you trust. Doesn't every ISP keeps logs of what s

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 30/03/11 14:16, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.03.2011 10:36, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: sudo /sbin/iptables-save # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Wed Mar 30 13:59:44 2011 *filter :INPUT DROP [2844:282816] :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [:990098] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT

[arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
Hallo to everyone on the list. It is my first message in a while. I have recently changed my internet provider as i have moved. My previous provider was a DSL provider and the current one is the local cable operator.Now with current provider port 80 is shown open in every port scan test , all

Re: [arch-general] Error for extract archive .tar

2011-01-11 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On 01/12/11 08:16, dario wrote: Hi! i have a problem for extract an archive .tar, because when write "tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz" i get the messenge: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now i have installed tar and gzip, and would ins

Re: [arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Partha Chowdhury
Thank you everyone for your replies. >From last night, I have tried different versions of kernel + Nvidia driver to pinpoint the bug, and the culprit is the whole 260.x.x series drivers. Every driver from 180,195 and 256 series works fine on any kernel version. but the 260.19.04,260.19.06,260.19.

[arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver

2010-10-25 Thread Partha Chowdhury
Today I updated my desktop which installed latest nvidia - version 260.19.12. When I tried startx, screen went black and the led of the power button of the monitor kept flashing.After I downgraded the nvidia, everything went allright. To be absolutely sure that it is not caused by anything in my s

Re: [arch-general] [OT]Disk showing too many bad sectors - is it going to fail ?

2010-10-17 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: > If you can, try overwriting the whole disk with dd, or test it with > badblocks using the write and readback test and see if anything > changes. > The not so worst case is that you caught an impending disk faillure > before it caused t

[arch-general] [OT]Disk showing too many bad sectors - is it going to fail ?

2010-10-16 Thread Partha Chowdhury
I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 family harddisk of 160gb capacity which is more than 3 years old. recently I installed gsmartcontrol and after running it, it showed number of current pending sector count and offline uncorrectable sectors as -- 4294967295.Fearing the disk going bad, i backed up da

[arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-05 Thread Partha Chowdhury
Recently I am looking for an ergonomic keyboard to replace my old samsung pleomax keyboard. I wanted to buy microsoft natural ergonomic keyboard 4000 but that is not in the market and the only other keyboard I find is logitech ergonomic keyboard K350.The keyboard is very comfortable to type and wor

Re: [arch-general] Latest NVIDIA en kernel update

2010-04-23 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On this topic, since updating to nvidia 195.36.15, the health icons in vuze/azureus are missing. I searched nvnews.net and found the following thread [1] but with no solution.Have any one else faced this issue ? Currently i have downgraded to kernel 2.6.32 and nvidia 190-53. [1]http://www.nvnews.n

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]

2009-12-30 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 05:22:33PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Hi, > > I already filed a bug report but thought it couldn't harm or even be > good to post it to the mailing list, too. > > Since the update to kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core] I can't boot this > kernel anymore. I always get a kernel

Re: [arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK & QT themes?

2009-11-12 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:08:04AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > After mucking around trying to get firefox and openoffice to look right, I > thought I would pass on a few tips. For those of you that know already, just > hit delete. > > The dull boxy appearance of both GTK and some Qt apps lef

[arch-general] kernel 2.6.31-4, conky and hwmon issue

2009-10-19 Thread Partha Chowdhury
Hallo all. here is my problem: last week when kernel was upgraded to 2.6.31, it broke conky and hwmon on some of the machines. So i opened FS#16584 and it was resolved in an update of conky . However it broke conky and hwmon on another set of machines as reported in this thread http://bbs.archlin

Re: [arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for conky to show hwmon information after kernel upgrade

2009-10-12 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:41:44PM +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Ok, I read now you sent the message to him and CC the message to MLs. > My point was that you should wait a couple of days first to send the > same message to MLs. > Thanks for the pointer. In the future i will follow it.

[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for conky to show hwmon information after kernel upgrade

2009-10-12 Thread Partha Chowdhury
I am pasting/attaching updated PKGBUILD for conky with reference to this bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16584 PKGBUILD: # $Id: PKGBUILD 50303 2009-08-25 11:05:41Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora # Contributor: James Rayner # Contributor: Partha Chowdhury pkgname=conky

Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 06:21:00PM -0400, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > 2009/10/10 Ray Kohler : > > Check the DPI of your display (with xdpyinfo). Probably the lack of > > the external monitor made it come up differently. > > > > I dealt with this by fixing the XFT DPI value to 96, which is what > > most

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-23 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +0200, Thomas Göbel wrote: > Hi all, > > i noticed that bash_completion and dd do not work together. Tiping dd > if=/h will not complete to if=/home. Without bash_completion > everything works fine. Maybo someone knows how to fix this? > here it works fine. Do

Re: [arch-general] Change letters of partitions

2009-09-13 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 01:23:21AM -0300, Lucas Salies Brum wrote: > Hello everyone, I'm having a little problem. > > My partitions looked like this: > /dev/sda1 (/) > /dev/sda2 (/home) > /dev/sda3 (swap) > > After I deleted the / partition and got this: > /dev/sda1 (Windows) > free space > /dev/

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Partha Chowdhury
thank you everyone for the prompt replies ! upon further enquiry, i loaded both ubuntu and rhel 5 in virtualbox and found 1>in ubuntu ifup and ifdown are part of ifupdown package 2> in rhel they are part of initscripts package. so i am wondering does every distributions modify some core packag

[arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Partha Chowdhury
i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering which package provides these two binaries ?

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: C-> and C<- does not work in urxvt in tabbed mode - archlinux specific

2009-08-11 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:58:48PM -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:24, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > If you like these, you can stick them in ~/.inputrc for your user > > account. It works for any app using readline. > > > > I added those to my ~/.inputrc, but it's still not wo

Re: [arch-general] C-> and C<- does not work in urxvt in tabbed mode - archlinux specific

2009-08-09 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:47:35PM -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 13:56, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > > i use rxvt-unicode as x terminal emulator. In tabbed mode i cannot use > > ctrl +left or right arrow keys to browse through words in history. i.e > > co

[arch-general] C-> and C<- does not work in urxvt in tabbed mode - archlinux specific

2009-08-08 Thread Partha Chowdhury
i use rxvt-unicode as x terminal emulator. In tabbed mode i cannot use ctrl +left or right arrow keys to browse through words in history. i.e commands which take a long argument previously i was using fedora 10. i had asked this question in rxvt-unicode mailing list http://lists.schmorp.de/piperm

[arch-general] PKGBUILD for updated libtorrent and rtorrent

2009-08-07 Thread Partha Chowdhury
# Contributor: sh__ # Contributor: Partha Chowdhury pkgname=libtorrent pkgver=0.12.5 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="BitTorrent library written in C++" arch=('i686' ) url="http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no"; license=('GPL') depends=('libsigc++2.0' 'openssl'

Re: [arch-general] xzgv, rtorrent and libtorrent have been orphaned - where can I apply for maintainership ?

2009-08-06 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:58:17PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Partha Chowdhury wrote: > >i have been using archlinux for about 3 months.I have switched from > >fedora to arch due to its simplicity. > >i had reported a bug > >http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15199?string=

[arch-general] xzgv, rtorrent and libtorrent have been orphaned - where can I apply for maintainership ?

2009-08-06 Thread Partha Chowdhury
i have been using archlinux for about 3 months.I have switched from fedora to arch due to its simplicity. i had reported a bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15199?string=xzgv&project=1&type[0]=&sev[0]=&pri[0]=&due[0]=&reported[0]=&cat[0]=&status[0]=open&percent[0]=&opened=&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom

Re: [arch-general] soundcard order is not maintained after recent updates

2009-08-05 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:15:27PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 16:51, wrote: > > i have two soundcards. one is creative soundblaster live and the other > > is onboard nvidia soundcard. the kernel modules are snd-emu10k1x and > > snd-hda-intel respectively. Before the rece

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: which package provides /usr/bin/udevinfo ?

2009-07-05 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 03:27:11PM +0300, Biru Ionut wrote: > > udevadm help > > info query sysfs or the udev database > Thanks for the help. udevadm info -a -p /sys/block/sr0 did the trick !

[arch-general] which package provides /usr/bin/udevinfo ?

2009-07-05 Thread Partha Chowdhury
i am looking into writing udev rules to permanently symlink /dev/dvd and /dev/cd to /dev/sr0 by following this page http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#udevinfo however i can't find udevinfo. pacman -Ql udev|grep bin udev /bin/ udev /bin/resolve-modalias udev /sbin/ udev /sbin/ude