bad torrent download

2018-03-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you get one of these I know you can use set xfer.verify yes in a ~/.lftprc file to enable validation. What I'd like to know is with lftp does something that can be set exist so after a bad torrent is downloaded and validated we can get a count of the errors caught and fixed by the verificat

Re: How to use Debian for a HTPC/Gaming combination?

2018-03-16 Thread Dominic Knight
On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 16:24 +, Dominic Knight wrote: > On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 14:50 +0100, Markus Grunwald wrote: > > > > would like to use the same computer as a steam machine or to play > > other > > games using wine or, of course, native linux games which is not > > possible > > There is no

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 12:49:16 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 10:24:36 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > The software might not support it, but if openwrt or ddwrt can run > > > on the hardware, they should support bridging. > >

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 10:24:36 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > The software might not support it, but if openwrt or ddwrt can run > > on the hardware, they should support bridging. > > I can make sure the router I buy can run openwrt or ddwrt, but it >

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 10:24:36 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > 1: I suppose there might be some network hardware which doesn't > > > support actual bridging of wired interfaces, but I've

Re: XFCE and network manager

2018-03-16 Thread solitone
On 16/03/18 10:34, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:20:42 +0100 > solitone wrote: > >> It was a fresh install. May it depend on the fact that I used an >> outdated installer? > > Possibly. I had installed stretch + xfce from scratch and got n-m > installed by default. OK, I

Re: dd_help missing from stretch repos

2018-03-16 Thread Felix Miata
Stefan Monnier composed on 2018-03-16 08:38 (UTC-0400): >> My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has >> 8 pending sectors reported by smartctl. > FWIW, there's a good chance that your old drive is still perfectly > usable: after backing up your data, a pass of overwri

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > 1: I suppose there might be some network hardware which doesn't > > support actual bridging of wired interfaces, but I've yet to see > > such an example. > > I think the router I've been usi

Re: XFCE and network manager

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 06:38:50 (+0100), solitone wrote: > Just installed scratch with xfce4 on an oldish machine, downloading all I'll assume you mean stretch. > the needed packages through my wifi adapter. > > On first boot wifi is down, and there is no application I can use to > choose and con

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 08:48:50 (+), Joe wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:26:38 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Mar 2018 at 13:09:00 (-), Dan Purgert wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > > --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > >> On We

Re: Debian v.9.2.1 DVDs - how long are they good for?

2018-03-16 Thread Anonymous
Thanks a lot, my friends. I did not anticipate such a beautiful set of responses!

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 23:26:38 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that a

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Dan Purgert
Joe wrote: > [...] > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices > with multiple Ethernet ports are switches and therefore software-based. > Indeed, many routers can be configured as VLANs. Hubs pretty much are. Not entirely sure where you're thinking switches are "softwa

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Dan Purgert
David Wright wrote: > > --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: >> > When you reprogram routers with dd-w

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, March 16, 2018 08:53:00 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I haven't had the need to do that, and I'm not quite sure how I would go > about it, but (thinking on the fly now), I might try putting a switch > immediately after the modem, with two routers plugged into that, then a > router and o

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, March 16, 2018 04:48:50 AM Joe wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:26:38 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: ... > > I haven't paid attention to this thread from the beginning, but > > looking at the sketch, I'm wondering what the purpose of the 2nd > > router is? Why not instead of a route

Re: Stretch kernel vulnerable to meltdown

2018-03-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Peter Steinmetz wrote: > This kernel is running as a Dom0-kernel on Xen. Might that be the reason? Yes. PTI has been disabled on Xen. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: dd_help missing from stretch repos

2018-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has > 8 pending sectors reported by smartctl. FWIW, there's a good chance that your old drive is still perfectly usable: after backing up your data, a pass of overwriting the whole disk (e.g. dd /dev/sdXX) will probably bring the

Re: XFCE and network manager

2018-03-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:34:02PM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:20:42 +0100 > solitone wrote: > > > It was a fresh install. May it depend on the fact that I used an > > outdated installer? > > Possibly. I had installed s

Re: XFCE and network manager

2018-03-16 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoglu
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:20:42 +0100 solitone wrote: > It was a fresh install. May it depend on the fact that I used an > outdated installer? Possibly. I had installed stretch + xfce from scratch and got n-m installed by default. BTW I can't remember if there was an option to *ignore* recommended

Re: XFCE and network manager

2018-03-16 Thread solitone
On 16/03/18 08:27, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > Did you upgrade or was this a fresh install? > > task-xfce-desktop recommends network-manager-gnome (and thus > network-manager) on sid and stretch: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/task-xfce-desktop It was a fresh install. May it depend on the fact

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-16 Thread Joe
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:26:38 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that a

Re: XFCE and network manager

2018-03-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 16/03/18 18:38, solitone wrote: Just installed scratch with xfce4 on an oldish machine, downloading all the needed packages through my wifi adapter. On first boot wifi is down, and there is no application I can use to choose and connect to my wifi access point. I realize that xfce's own Aircon