Re: how to install stretch securely

2017-12-11 Thread John Hasler
David Christensen writes: > I suggest that you contact your stock broker and find out what > hardware, operating system, and software they recommend and support. I suggest that if your broker requires any particular hardware, OS, or software that you find a new broker. -- John Hasler jhas...@new

Re: how to install stretch securely

2017-12-11 Thread David Christensen
On 12/11/17 15:41, Long Wind wrote: maybe i worry too muchbut my new stretch will be used to trade stocksand virus can cost dearly On 12/11/17 17:08, Long Wind wrote: but my stretch is to be used to trade stocksand nearly all my wealth is in stock account so I can't make any mistake. I sugge

Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

2017-12-11 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Long Wind wrote: > i have Windows XP and Linux on one diskis there any XP virus that can > spread to linux? > Thanks! Generally no, given that Windows and Linux use different executable formats. That being said, you can still spread infected files a

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-11 Thread mark
On Sunday, December 10, 2017 7:08:16 PM EST André Rodier wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have been using Postfix and Dovecot on Debian (Since potato) for my > personal emails for years. > After being tired of reinstalling my personal mail server many times, I > am currently writing some Ansible scr

Re: how to install stretch securely

2017-12-11 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 12/12/17 13:22, Long Wind wrote: I haven't been able to find "manufacturers utility"and I don't have stretch CD Using hdparm from a live CD to perform an ATA Secure Erase should eradicate any malicious content from the drive: https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase This is

RE: OT: Troubleshooting an IP device on a LAN from another LAN--would a VPN work?

2017-12-11 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> I'll look into LogMein later today or tomorrow > A free option but they irritate you with advertising is Teamviewer > FREE for individual use. For Windows computers I like Teamviewer best, also because the other side, which I am supporting does not need to install anything. They just

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question)

2017-12-11 Thread David Wright
On Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 08:34:41 (-0800), James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 12/11/17, 7:04 AM, Joe wrote: > >The rigid platters of IBM cartridges and packs (the things you see in > >computer rooms in films) did have brown oxide coatings. The surface of > >each 12 inch platter side stored a magnificent

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question) (was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2017-12-11 Thread rhkramer
Thanks! On Monday, December 11, 2017 10:04:09 AM Joe wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:16:35 -0500 > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > (Did hard disks ever use iron oxide?) > > The rigid platters of IBM cartridges and packs (the things you see in > computer rooms in films) did have brown oxide coati

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question) (was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2017-12-11 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, December 11, 2017 09:41:45 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 09:16:35AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > From the Wikipedia article on "Magnetic storage": > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_storage#Design > > "For reliable storage of data, the recording

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question)

2017-12-11 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/11/17, 7:04 AM, Joe wrote: The rigid platters of IBM cartridges and packs (the things you see in computer rooms in films) did have brown oxide coatings. The surface of each 12 inch platter side stored a magnificent 2.5MB, or at least the version I used did. It was used in a system with an e

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-11 Thread David Wright
On Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 11:32:54 (+), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On dom, 10 dez 2017, tomas wrote: > >To put it differently, Debian tends to package docs separately, because > >you might want to set up a storage-constrained system where you don't > >want that extra stuff. To me, that makes sen

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question) (was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2017-12-11 Thread Joe
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:16:35 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > (Did hard disks ever use iron oxide?) > The rigid platters of IBM cartridges and packs (the things you see in computer rooms in films) did have brown oxide coatings. The surface of each 12 inch platter side stored a magnificent 2

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question) (was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2017-12-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 09:16:35AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, December 11, 2017 01:12:41 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > There are instructions for making the pi's boot from rust, but its a one > way as its said to be an otp rom in charge of that, however when I try > to set

Rust? (and a wordsmithing question) (was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2017-12-11 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, December 11, 2017 01:12:41 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > There are instructions for making the pi's boot from rust, but its a one > way as its said to be an otp rom in charge of that, however when I try > to set that bit, its write protected even for root. In all 3 of the pi's > I bought. An

OT: (was: Re: The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly.)

2017-12-11 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, December 11, 2017 08:05:59 AM Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Never mind, I rebooted, and it now works. I have to chuckle when I think back to the Linux, well, I'll call them fanboys, that made fun of the Microsoft reboot solution. It has worked for me and others a fair number of times.

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 15:52:30 +0100, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 10-12-17, Joe wrote: > > > > I thought you might find more examples helpful. The man page says that > > policies come from /etc/polkit-1 and /var/lib/polkit-1, but on my > > system the /var/lib location is almost empty, and there's a l

Re: Missing key

2017-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:43:16AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Dragging up an old thread from the archive: On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:25:07 -0300 Henrique Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Charles E. Blair wrote: > When I type "apt-get upgrade" I get > this message, and things stop: > > W:

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 07:19:20AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 11 December 2017 06:02:46 Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 18:25:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > apt can't do a show --uninstalled on the stretch machine, and the >

Re: The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly.

2017-12-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/12/17 12:01, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 10/12/17 11:48, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After upgrading Jessie to Stretch, using KDE, I am seeing the error message >> >> "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly." >> >> when opening Dolphin in su mode. No files are shown.

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:32:54AM +, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: [...] > It also helps the archives, since there can be one > architecture-independent .deb with the docs, and then smaller > architecture-dependent .deb's with the binaries for each

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 December 2017 06:02:46 Brian wrote: > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 18:25:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > apt can't do a show --uninstalled on the stretch machine, and the > > man page isn't offering much either, so to see whats available, I > > have to go to its own keyboard and run synapt

Re: The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly.

2017-12-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/12/17 11:48, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading Jessie to Stretch, using KDE, I am seeing the error message > > "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly." > > when opening Dolphin in su mode. No files are shown. > > The same happens when invoking Dolphin from a roo

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On dom, 10 dez 2017, tomas wrote: To put it differently, Debian tends to package docs separately, because you might want to set up a storage-constrained system where you don't want that extra stuff. To me, that makes sense. It also helps the archives, since there can be one architecture-indep

Re: Repharsing [MATE Search Tool -- forcing a default search path]

2017-12-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/10/2017 09:25 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-12-10, Richard Owlett wrote: I have not discovered a pattern in how the default for "Look in folder:" is determined. Man page for Mate search tool says: OPTIONS --path=PATH Set the text of "Look in folder" search option so presumably (hah!) ed

Missing key

2017-12-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Dragging up an old thread from the archive: On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:25:07 -0300 Henrique Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Charles E. Blair wrote: > When I type "apt-get > upgrade" I get > this message, and things stop: > > W: There is no > public key available for the following key IDs: > EF

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 18:25:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > apt can't do a show --uninstalled on the stretch machine, and the man > page isn't offering much either, so to see whats available, I have to go > to its own keyboard and run synaptic-pkexec. The apt man page isn't unhelpful. For avail

Re: on-screen artifacts (red pixels) at high resolution with Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake)

2017-12-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Alexandre Rossi wrote on 12/11/17 10:05: >> could you show your Xorg.0.log files? > > Here it is attached. > >> The Kaby Lake GPU needs some firmware. Therefore, what is the print out of >> grep firmware /var/log/dmesg > > $ sudo dmesg | grep firmware > [9.165601] i915 :00:02.0: firmwa

Re: unison compatibility in stretch

2017-12-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 10/12/17 19:40, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Sunday, 10 Dec 2017 at 12:25, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > [...] > >> In the passt, I've always worked round this by installing the lower >> version on my desktop and adjusted the links. This appears no lnger to >> be possible. >> >> Does anyone know how

Re: on-screen artifacts (red pixels) at high resolution with Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake)

2017-12-11 Thread Alexandre Rossi
> could you show your Xorg.0.log files? Here it is attached. > The Kaby Lake GPU needs some firmware. Therefore, what is the print out of > grep firmware /var/log/dmesg $ sudo dmesg | grep firmware [9.165601] i915 :00:02.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin [

nosh version 1.36

2017-12-11 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The nosh package is now up to version 1.36 . * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/ * https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html#The-nosh-Project * http://jdebp.info./Softwares/nosh/ More Java tools This release comes with the |find-default-jvm| and |find-

Re: Filter logcheck reboot messages?

2017-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 04:49:09PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Ulf Volmer wrote: > > On 09.12.2017 15:37, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Richard Hector wrote: > >>> Nobody else uses logcheck? Everyone is fine with how it works? I use it on a few dozen servers and I'm fine with how it works. Yes, the m