Re: grub2 security problem

On 12/19/2015 08:59 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Michael Fothergill writes: I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in grub2. E.g. http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html ​Is there any substance to this? Yes, for the microscopic proportion of p

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

On 12/19/2015 07:48 AM, Mimiko wrote: After reviewing the results of test, I've modified smb.conf. I've added max protocol = SMB2 and removed SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 from socket options. The read speed from this server increased to 40MB/s, the write speed to this server increased to 30MB/s.

Re: AP support for wl driver

On 06/12/15 02:15, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I have made several attempts on this mailing list, internet, and also > tried various distros, just to get the hotspot work on my laptop. > How could I request the developers to add support for the driver to > allow AP mode on my Broadcom wireless hardwa

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

There appear to be driver issues discussed in other threads with respect to Intel driver and slow throughput due to interrupts and CPU offloading. May want to review driver parameters and look at trying a few changes. Frank On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Mimiko wrote: >

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Curt wrote: My cat died and I don't want another because of the heartbreak I went through. I am so sorry for your loss, which very clearly was a *major* one. Try to give yourself enough time to grieve; there's no telling how long that will take. There's no FAQ for grief,

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:47 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > If I remember my timeline of events correctly, this is because there was > no ffmpeg package in jessie; the libav fork was present in its place. (I > thought libav had still been providing a ffmpeg dummy package, but I may > be remembering wr

Re: command not found [SOLVED]

On Fri 18 Dec 2015 at 10:09:30 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:49:59AM +, Brian wrote: > > > > The guts of my ~/.fetchmailrc are > > > > poll > > protopop3 > > user > > password > > ssl > > > > 'fetchmail -c -v' for testing. > > Mine i

Re: grub2 security problem

Michael Fothergill writes: > Dear Folks, > > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > > E.g. > > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > ​Is there any substance to this? Yes, for the microscopic proportion of people who put a pa

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

On 2015-12-19 at 11:38, Kynn Jones wrote: > An additional detail I noticed after I posted the message above: > > % apt-cache policy ffmpeg > ffmpeg: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 7:2.8.3-1 > Version table: > 7:2.8.3-1 0 > 500 http://http.us.debian

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

Kynn Jones a écrit : > > I don't understand why the ffmpeg version from stretch comes out as > the best (and only remaining) candidate. > > How can I find out why the ffmpeg version from jessie (whatever that > is) is not a candidate? It appears that there is no ffmpeg package in Jessie.

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: > I apologize for all these apt-related questions. > > I have rtfm'd on this ad nauseam. For years, literally. > > Still, I'm routinely rendered utterly helpless by this sort of thing: > > % sudo apt-get -qq update > % sudo apt-get -qq u

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:00 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > Assuming you don't actually have any package holds (check 'apt-mark > showhold' to verify that), and since you've already confirmed that you > don't have any seemingly-applicable pins: > > Append one or more of the listed packages to the 'apt

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

Mimiko wrote: > After reviewing the results of test, I've modified smb.conf. I've added > max protocol = SMB2 and removed SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 from > socket options. The read speed from this server increased to 40MB/s, the > write speed to this server increased to 30MB/s. The SO_*BUF

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

On 2015-12-18, Ric Moore wrote: I just don't, for my use, like a lot of what IMAP does. > > I use POP. Nuff said. :) Ric And I don't give a shit what you use. I don't have a car and bought my first cell phone six months ago. My cat died and I don't want another because of the heartbrea

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

On 2015-12-19 at 10:24, Kynn Jones wrote: > I apologize for all these apt-related questions. > > I have rtfm'd on this ad nauseam. For years, literally. > > Still, I'm routinely rendered utterly helpless by this sort of thing: > > % sudo apt-get -qq update > % sudo apt-get -qq upgrade

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

Hello. After reviewing the results of test, I've modified smb.conf. I've added max protocol = SMB2 and removed SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 from socket options. The read speed from this server increased to 40MB/s, the write speed to this server increased to 30MB/s. On 19.12.2015 00:43, Dan

How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

I apologize for all these apt-related questions. I have rtfm'd on this ad nauseam. For years, literally. Still, I'm routinely rendered utterly helpless by this sort of thing: % sudo apt-get -qq update % sudo apt-get -qq upgrade % sudo apt-get -qq dist-upgrade % sudo apt-get inst

Re: grub2 security problem

On 19 December 2015 at 11:50, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:57 + > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > >​Is there any substance to this? > ​ > Yes, but it's been rectified. See > > for the f

Re: grub2 security problem

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:57 + Michael Fothergill wrote: Hello Michael, >​Is there any substance to this? ​ Yes, but it's been rectified. See for the full security announcement. Further, I suggest subscribing to the Deb

Re: grub2 security problem

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:57 + Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > > E.g. > > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > ​Is there any substance to this? > There was an upda

Re: grub2 security problem

Michael Fothergill [2015-12-19 09:35:57Z] wrote: > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > ​Is there any substance to this? Didn't check myself but it seems so: https://www.debian.org/se

grub2 security problem

Dear Folks, I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in grub2. E.g. http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html ​Is there any substance to this? Regards Michael Fothergill ​