You lazy son-of-a-guns out there! (Was: May I introduce to you)

2014-02-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Doug wrote: On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote: On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’! I'm reasonably certain that as of th

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-01 Thread Doug
On 02/01/2014 03:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: Hi. I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone tell me how big should

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Csanyi Pal
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: > On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. >

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-02-01 Thread PaulNM
On 01/24/2014 07:35 PM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone successfully installed Viber opn Debian? > > Completely lost man > Hey, I wrote the following as a basic troubleshooting guide. Scott was right, though. You really should have put more info in your first email, at least

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 00:13, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade to > ‘get-iplayer’! > > > Any problems, or further instruction required, please let me know. > > Thanks > Sharon. > Thanks - it looks interesting. (if only there was something sim

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 14:12, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > >>> >>> >>> So, >>> nobody in this list uses Viber Well, it is a piece of heavily marketed, unreliable, proprietary piece of, um, software - which offers no privacy. And there are a number of alternatives >> >> I use Viber on Arch and Ubuntu

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-01 Thread Doug
On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote: On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’! The BBC has some superb radio and TV programmes, some of which they hav

Re: Viber on Debian

2014-02-01 Thread Man_Without_Clue
On 02/01/2014 11:16 AM, Michael Checca wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:25:02 -0800, Man_Without_Clue wrote: On 01/28/2014 11:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 07:13:13PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/01/14 19:00, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18

Re: Suggest a tool for decoding binary data

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 12:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've been working on homegrown backups for a while. I like using > standard UNIX tools because the backups are usable on any *NIX system. > I'm about to tackle GPT partitioned disks, and want to decode the > label. > > I need it because i like to take dd

Suggest a tool for decoding binary data

2014-02-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've been working on homegrown backups for a while. I like using standard UNIX tools because the backups are usable on any *NIX system. I'm about to tackle GPT partitioned disks, and want to decode the label. I need it because i like to take dd-style dumps of the partition info, including the stu

Default kernel network variables, sysctl, not secure enough.

2014-02-01 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, Did a security audit on Debian 7 using tiger and found some less than secure settings for network variables in the kernel. One of the variables flagged was net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter . This and the rest in this group can be set in /etc/sysctl.conf . T

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Feb 2014 at 11:18:17 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 2/1/2014 10:21 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >On 2/1/2014 9:41 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:00:30 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > >>> > >>>Isn't it the case where the randomness of the key/password compose

Re: open-jdk

2014-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/02/14 06:47 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: update-alternatives --display java [root@localhost frank]# update-alternatives --display java java - status is manual. link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.4.1.fc19.i386/jre/bin/java /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. > I want to set it up on my headless

Re: open-jdk

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/02/14 01:43, Frank McCormick wrote: > When ever I update my Debian Sid installation and it involves open-jdk I > get this warning when it's being configured: > > > update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-7, but binary format > already installed by openjdk-6 > > Is this somethin

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Csanyi Pal
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wireless Access P

Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-01 Thread Lauge Andersen
Hi. I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone tell me how big should the swap partition be? I've read online that

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-01 Thread Joe
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:58:45 -0500 Doug wrote: > On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade > > to ‘get-iplayer’! > > > > The BBC has some superb radio and TV programmes, some of which they > > have released into the public

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How? [solved]

2014-02-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140131_205050, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2014 31 Jan 15:38 -0600, David Guntner wrote: > > I forgot to mention: The "play" command is part of the SoX package, so > > if you try running it and get a "not found" response, install sox. > > There is also 'aplay' from the alsa-utils package whi

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote: > On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, > > upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’! > > > > The BBC has some superb radio and TV programmes, some of which > > they have released into the publi

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-02-01 Thread Chris Davies
Craig L. wrote: > When I tried to reconnect, it took almost 60 seconds for the password > prompt to show up. It's probably trying to lookup rDNS for your IP address. Reverse lookups are controlled by a parameter in the sshd_config file. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: freeradius startup delay

2014-02-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140131_203944, Andre Marschalek wrote: > hi, > > > > i installed freeradius and samba4 (internal dns) on debian wheezy (testing > repository) and every time i reboot this system freeradius failes to start Wheezy has been the stable version of Debian for more than a year at the least. Chec

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 07:30 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > a computer that doesn't beep just doesn't seem > right. :-) Amen to that :). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: open-jdk

2014-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/02/14 12:51 PM, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 1 Feb 2014 21:23:49 +0400 Reco napísal: Hi. On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:43:13 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: When ever I update my Debian Sid installation and it involves open-jdk I get this warning when it's being configured: update-binfmts

Re: open-jdk

2014-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/02/14 12:23 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:43:13 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: When ever I update my Debian Sid installation and it involves open-jdk I get this warning when it's being configured: update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-7, but binary format al

Install No-IP client on WD MyBook Live

2014-02-01 Thread semaphore45
Hello Debian list, I've got a WD MyBook Live, and obviously, it runs a Debian-based OS. I would like to know how I could install the No-IP client, have it store the password in encrypted form, and automatically update its external IP every 4 hours. It is not supposed to be a difficult operatio

Re: May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-01 Thread Doug
On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’! The BBC has some superb radio and TV programmes, some of which they have released into the public domain and which can be downloaded using ‘get-iplayer’, and then ca

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Feb 2014 at 08:58:52 +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Here we go. To be more accurate, it's not that password login is less > secure, it's private key + passphrase that *adds* security because of its > nature. > That way, even a user who picks a weak passphrase has somewhat an increased

Re: open-jdk

2014-02-01 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 1 Feb 2014 21:23:49 +0400 Reco napísal: > Hi. > > On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:43:13 -0500 > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > When ever I update my Debian Sid installation and it involves > > open-jdk I get this warning when it's being configured: > > > > > > update-binfmts: warning:

Re: open-jdk

2014-02-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:43:13 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > When ever I update my Debian Sid installation and it involves open-jdk I > get this warning when it's being configured: > > > update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-7, but binary format > already installed by openj

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2014-02-01, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > > I enabled my beep with: > modprobe pcspkr snd-pcsp What kind of *beeping* beep have you got? One that squeaks through the internal speaker on the motherboard (pcspkr), or one that gushes out of your external speakers by way of the sound sub

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/1/2014 10:21 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/1/2014 9:41 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:00:30 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: Isn't it the case where the randomness of the key/password composes the overall quality of the crypto substitutions in such a way that 4096bi

Re: Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
Hi This page has some information about beep: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=49685 I enabled my beep with: modprobe pcspkr snd-pcsp I have added pcspkr and snd-pcsp to: /etc/modules You may also check this file to assure the beep is not black-listed: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklis

Debian testing in a Hyper-V VM does not sync time on resume

2014-02-01 Thread Sladjan Ristic
I tried to save the VM state or pause and resumed it again. In both occasions Debian testing would not sync its time with the Hyper-V host most of the time (rarely it actually did). I tried Debian Wheezy and it worked fine always. I checked and the the hv drivers were loaded on the VM. (I also t

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/1/2014 9:41 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:00:30 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: Isn't it the case where the randomness of the key/password composes the overall quality of the crypto substitutions in such a way that 4096bit keys would necessarily provide better prot

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Feb 2014 at 11:27:08 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Maybe I should build a custom kernel as described here: > http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/Building_a_custom_kernel > > and follow the advices described here: > http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4744 Will the source for the

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:00:30 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > > Isn't it the case where the randomness of the key/password composes the > overall quality of the crypto substitutions in such a way that 4096bit > keys would necessarily provide better protection against cryptanalysis > when com

open-jdk

2014-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
When ever I update my Debian Sid installation and it involves open-jdk I get this warning when it's being configured: update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-7, but binary format already installed by openjdk-6 Is this something to be concerned about or is it just informative? Wh

Nvidia packages

2014-02-01 Thread Hans
Dear package-team, just a question: Is there any difference between your prebuild nvidia-packages and those, which I am building by DKMS? I mean, do you patch the sources somehow for debian specialities? Thanks for your answer. Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 11:21 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 31 ian 14, 17:19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > It's not only common (in some industry sectors 12 *random* characters > > regularly changed and never repeated is mandated), it's good security. > > Despite what some will advise en

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 01 Feb 04:01 -0600, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 10:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:14 +, Curt wrote: > > > (most people are desirous to turn the damn > > > thing off and not on, but I possess __l'esprit de contrariété__. > > > > On my machin

May I introduce to you ..... 'beeb'

2014-02-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’! The BBC has some superb radio and TV programmes, some of which they have released into the public domain and which can be downloaded using ‘get-iplayer’, and then can be played with your choice of viewer. This s

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. >>> I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wireless >>> Access Point. >>> >>> >>> However, I can'

Valgrind -strlen error

2014-02-01 Thread Robin
Error: use kill -SIGUSR2 pid to dump traces of active allocations ==1721== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==1721== Copyright (C) 2002-2013, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==1721== Using Valgrind-3.9.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==1721== Command: /usr/lib/libreoffice/pro

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Csanyi Pal
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. >> I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wireless >> Access Point. >> >> I'm trying to follow these steps here: >> http://www.daveconroy.com

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis WF-2120 adapter. > I want to set it up on my headless Debian Wheezy server as a Wireless > Access Point. > > I'm trying to follow these steps here: > http://www.daveconroy.com/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-wifi

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Csanyi Pal
Brian writes: > On Sat 01 Feb 2014 at 09:27:36 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Csanyi Pal writes: >> >> > so I think that that it should be safe to install the binary >> > bubba3-kernel_2.6.39.4-13_powerpc.deb, that I downloaded from the abowe >> > mentioned link ( http://b3.update.excito.org/po

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Feb 2014 at 09:27:36 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > > > so I think that that it should be safe to install the binary > > bubba3-kernel_2.6.39.4-13_powerpc.deb, that I downloaded from the abowe > > mentioned link ( http://b3.update.excito.org/pool/main/l/linux/... ), >

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 10:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 09:14 +, Curt wrote: > > (most people are desirous to turn the damn > > thing off and not on, but I possess __l'esprit de contrariété__. > > On my machine there isn't a setting to enable/disable the beep by > alsami

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 31 ian 14, 17:19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > It's not only common (in some industry sectors 12 *random* characters > regularly changed and never repeated is mandated), it's good security. > Despite what some will advise entropy is the measure of exhaustion - > resulting from *brute* force

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2014-01-31, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I need something that I can actually hear even when I not paying > attention. I know I asked about getting the beep function working, but > now I want to ask about possibilities of getting the external > speakers, which I know are working for videos to work

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 16:29 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:02:16AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal > > > to issue the beep? > > > > > > The

Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?

2014-02-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 20:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2014 31 Jan 18:04 -0600, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > MiscBell=FALSE > > > > > > Set it to TRUE. > > > > ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc And now it beeps if I run $ print

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-01 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Brian writes: >> >>> On Fri 31 Jan 2014 at 14:32:02 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> csanyipal@b2:/lib/modules/2.6.39.4-4/kernel/drivers$ grep -r 8192 * Binary file media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.ko matches >>> >>> This kernel does not have the dr