> It may be a new full on campaign they've started, or they may just be testing
> the waters to judge the level of outrage before starting a full on campaign of
> this crap.
And it could also just be a bug in somebody's new UI code, or a
misclick somewhere. I'd wait at least a little bit before b
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-07 21:47, Joel Roth wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to ask for help setting up a used router for my
>> brother.
>>
>> First of all, I get usual internet services without the
>> router:
>>
>> Computer ---> DSL modem
>>
>> I have problems with ba
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> Is it technically not feasable, meaning that a room is too large to do noise
> cancelling in, or not feasable from the linux software prespective?
The former, I'd think. For that to work on the room level, you'd need
to have sensors surroundi
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Eric
Gerlach wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:02:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> My granfather and his accountant were alternately bringing home 13"
>> disk packs 30 years ago. They've obviously got newer hardware now
>> (tape drives), and he's passed on,
little effort to explain it (beyond "I might have to learn
how to fix it").
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Dirk wrote:
> Dirk wrote:
>>
>> Jeff Soules wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is that enough of an answer or is there any HAL fanboy left who want's
> Is that enough of an answer or is there any HAL fanboy left who want's to
> battle choice?
I'm not a HAL fanboy. In fact, I couldn't care less. From the
descriptions, it sounds like HAL (like every other piece of software
ever written) solves some problems while potentially creating others.
Su
2009/6/23 明覺 :
> 2009/6/23 Jeff Soules :
> A very good comparison -- human languages and programming languages.
> Then why we must have an official world language - English? What's the
> official language in the programming world? If you say you do not need
> an official progra
ething? That's really the most interesting
problem you can think of solving with computers?
You really need to rethink your priorities. A mature person would
accept that when a solution has been endorsed by thousands of people
over decades, there might be something worthwhile to it, even if i
While it's not terribly good code, the attached perl script should do
what you want.
It will expect file names as the input, and will output to stdout; you
will need to redirect to a file if you want to save it. So do
something like:
$ perl quoter.pl Guy_On_The_Internet.txt >quoted-GOTI.txt
wh
> (and making sure that it does not allow sudo - a server should not be allowd
> to be stuffed up by a user, inadvertently or deliberately)
I just want to clarify something (not criticizing the preference for
su - root over sudo necessarily) but if sudo is set up so that any
user can use it, then
> The CL really shines with complex tasks, and this is where people's eyes glaze
> over. For example, I convert a directory of .wav files to .mp3 files on a
I think of it more that the cl shines when doing multi-step tasks.
"Find all the .odt files on the hard drive" is just as easy through
gui o
> Why do you think Ubuntu's commercial?
Because they offer for-fee professional support?
2009/4/25 Robert Holtzman :
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
>
>> For servers i'd definitely go for Debian. Ubuntu's commercial and you
>> can't be sure if it'll provide support in the future and
I'd suggest any tasks that they frequently do by hand. What do school
teachers in your community use their Linux machines for? Any way to
speed that up? Parsing text files perhaps, doing file conversions or
concatenating documents they might have to deal with (pdfs?) or
something like that?
Typ
>>> upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in
>>> crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going
>>> for
>>> a GeForce 9800GT. My understanding is the combination of the two Radeon's
>>> in
>>> crossfire will blow away the Nvidia performance wi
> might be useful to you sometime. All of this can also be done from the
> command line but you probably want to use the GUI that you are
> already using.
I don't use the menus much -- I usually run things through the command
line as Thorny was saying -- but it looks like there's some menu
managem
I have to re-click that
setting in the control panel and then re-save the keyboard settings at
each X session in order to get the menu key recognized as compose.
Neither here nor there.
Anyway... I wonder if there's something maybe trapping the input from
your numpad when you're in Gnome
Is the keyboard model correctly set under Gnome's Keyboard Preferences
control panel? How about in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ? Are either of those
set to a keyboard type that doesn't have a numpad?
Just a shot in the dark, but can't hurt to check.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>> there's no known practical attack on it. It performs well. So it is
>
> ^
>
> That's the word, of course... Any government that discovers a successful
> attack is going to keep quiet.
Except in a certain side-channel sense -- any government that
discovers a successful attac
it hidden somewhere. While he
> is in the house, and police enter, he might have enough time to probably
> destroy the SD and turn off the computer.
>
> What would you recommend in this imaginary case?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Javier wrote:
> Jeff Soules escribió:
>>
As Ron said, the problem you're describing is a little bit different
from the one the man page talks about.
> The most intrusive attacks, where an attacker has complete control of
> the user's machine (and can therefor modify EncFS, or FUSE, or the
> kernel itself) are not guarded against. Do not
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Someone has a python compiler (*.py to an executable)? Yes, I know that
> python *.py modules get "compiled" into *.pyc byte-code but that still
> has to go through the python interpreter. Also, what happens in 10
> years when I want to
> So start with Python or Basic (search for Gambas IDE).
I hear that Python is an excellent learning language. However, I
think that Basic might be less useful for this, simply because it's
very different from the major language families and (last I heard)
still relied on some features that teach
> Note that Linus doesn't agree with that idea, which is why, for example, the
> nvidia driver is allowed.
I think I'm confused -- in that case, wouldn't Linux be the larger
work, and the driver be a work that's linked in? nVidia of course has
the right to license their software however they like
>> on my system but it isn't running, and I don't think I ever set it up. All I
>> want is for my web port rule to start every time I boot, but I can't find
>> anywhere in the system where iptables is saved, or where to put this one line
>> rule so it starts every time.
http://www.debian-administr
> While in general I agree, in this case you could say that I am sitting
> here as a honeypot. No legitimate users will try connecting via SSH on
> port 22, and certainly not over the big bad internet. The only reason
> that I have sshd running here is for another machine on the LAN to ssh
> in on
> fail2ban
> knockd
> knocker
> denyhosts
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/187
> http://www.howtoforge.com/preventing_ssh_dictionary_attacks_with_denyhosts
If you know where you'll be sshing in from, you can use iptables to
deny access to the appropriate port with MAC filtering and
Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but there is a
TrueType font package freely available from Arphic which can be
installed using apt*. Please see:
http://isis.poly.edu/~qiming/chinese-debian-mini-howto.html#Installing_Fonts
I'm away from my Debian box and don't have a printer
Bonjour,
Vous chercheriez peut-être la liste debian-user-french [1] ? Cette
liste-ci s'écrit en anglais, des questions posées en d'autres langues
ne recevront pas souvent de réponse.
Bonne chance! Que votre problème sera résolu tout de suite.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/
> Assuming you really want to:
>
> sed -i -e 's/etch/sid/g;s:/stable:/unstable:g' \
> /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/{.[!.],}* && \
> aptitude update && aptitude install aptitude apt dpkg && \
> aptitude full-upgrade
>
> should do it.
Which, if you're confused by the one-liner, mean
Hi all,
I upgraded to Lenny a while back, and since then my compose key
setting under Gnome keeps getting reset when I restart.
Under system->Keyboard->Layouts I have selected "USA" with adjustments
made to map meta to the win-keys and to use the menu key as compose.
However, every time I restart
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> after all, is the priority of a school to educate or to discipline?
For an American public school? Unfortunately, probably the latter.
Pray forgive my cynicism...
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/12/1 Jeff Soules <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I think he [...]
>
> She. :-)
Oh! Heh, didn't even look at the sender's name.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT
>> 1.- I sort of need the login.cc file of the Debian sources and I can't
>> find it in anywere, if you please could send it to me. I need to see an
>> example of how to capture the password of the user of the keyboard before it
>> apears in the screen (like when someone make su).
>
> You need us t
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Manuel Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> No comments, if you don't want help, is very simple, please, don't post.
> And PLEASE, the respect to the others is essential.
Speaking of respect, it's against policy on this list to CC someone if
they don't
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> aptitude is the preferred package manager since sarge.
Preferred by whom, for what reason? I've always been much happier
with apt-get when I want precision, aptitude when I want to browse.
When I upgraded from etch to le
Hi Jesse,
Hopefully we'll be able to help. First step is to get a bit more information.
When you say that you cannot get online media to play -- what kinds of
media files are you referring to? I'm guessing you mean flash mostly;
are you trying to do streaming audio or video in any other formats
It seems positions on gmail have become the new vi-vs-emacs.
Anyway, I wouldn't recommend gmail for the original poster's needs
simply because it doesn't formally offer disposable email addresses.
Sure, you could probably get away with using it that way, but that's
not really what it's intended fo
Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with
anything in the i386-amd64 family. If you can burn the CD, it will do
its own thing so long as you boot from the CD drive.
See: http://www.memtest.org/ (Don't know if your system is functional
enough to download and burn a cd, but y
> Jeff,
> you math is off - way off.
>
> P(one fails) != 5/100
>
> P(two drives fail at the same time) = P(one fails) * P(one fails)
>
> = 25/1
Henning -- I'm not talking about the chance that the array will fail
-- just that the more drives are under observation, the more the
chance that *one
>> Stefan "Who doesn't understand why people use such old systems
>> given the availability of cheap replacements which are
>> much smaller and consume less power."
Nothing wrong with running on whatever hardware is available.
But if your hardware was around
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:44 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you mean it is more likely that any one drive in the array fails when
> you have more drives, or do you mean that it is more likely for a drive
> in the array to fail when you have more drives? If drives fail more
> often when bei
CS 103: An Introduction to Unix, eh?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hard+link+vs+soft+link&btnG=Google+Search&aq=2&oq=hard+link+
That's probably a good start.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:20 AM, amirehsan ranginkaman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> please send to me all details about HardLi
> David Bernier wrote:
>>
>
> I got an email today from a list that I never subscribed to. The message
> body and headers were
> refused by Debian Users list because of some Javascript. The end part
> appears below...
Sounds like run-of-the-mill spam.
To run a secure system, it's important to be
"Me-too" here -- I am also running an 8600GT using the nvidia driver.
I installed it using "their way" after the Debian way wasn't working
for a while. (I also had blank screens with the nv driver, though I
could just never get X to launch at all; the whole system froze using
that driver for me).
Hm. For me it's Desktop menu -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution.
(http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2me4kys&s=4)
Do you not have a desktop menu? I know my Gnome configuration is a
little weird, it seems to be missing a common top-level menu...
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:28 PM, David Christensen
> go in /etc/init.d/? What do I need to do with this file to get it to run
> every time I boot? The actual content is copied below.
Actually, the easiest way to make sure the firewall rules are always
on is to add this to your /etc/network/interfaces :
# Bring up firewall
pre-up iptables-restore
How is your sound set up? Are you using ALSA? Have you checked the
mixer settings? (You would need both the "microphone" setting turned
up, and also the "capture" setting.) If you blow in the microphone,
do you get any sound coming through the speakers? (I assume you've
confirmed that the micr
Generally, when you see an advisory, run (as root, or using sudo if
you have it installed):
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
and that should update you.
You should generally pay attention to Security Advisories, because as
you learn more about the system, you'll understand them more : ) and
mor
Well, one option is to just set a rule-pair in your firewall:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j DROP
That way connections from the internal network are accepted; all other
traffic to the ssh port is dropped. If you go this rout
> If all rights descend from the government (whether that be an absolute
> monarchy or a parliament), then I'd posit that no, you don't have a right to
> defend home and hearth.
That doesn't follow.
If rights descend from the government, then you have a right to defend
home and hearth if the gover
Dismissing most of this because it's little more than an expression of
the author's prejudice, but...
> We don't like the EU because
> of their complete disregard for individual rights. It was conceived of and
> implemented by socialists. It's that simple.
Socialists?
You mean the kind of people
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Mike McCarty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Must... not... compare... emacs... to... Operating... System...
>
> I wasn't comparing anything to anything. I don't understand
> even what your objection might be.
In the old vi-vs.-EMACS flamewars it was often claimed b
Hello,
I've done a fair amount of legwork to try to get recording working on
my Etch machine. I'm using Alsa-based sound, and have successfully
set up my microphone and recording with a locally-compiled Audacity
(and even Windows programs like Ventrilo through Wine). I am using an
ATI SB600 Azal
Hi Mike,
On my Etch system at least, I'm not seeing any files that list the
iptables rules (as I think this is what you're looking for). Such a
thing would be created if you manually configured your firewall rules
(inputting a bunch of iptables -A ) and then saved them to a file
using uptable
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Chris Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ssh-keygen -t rsa # Does anyone know whether dsa or rsa is better?
I had understood that RSA is cryptographically superior to DSA, at
least unless the DSA implementation is done very carefully (or so says
the PuTTY w
Ted,
Wikipedia is a great resource -- you just have to take what you read
there with a grain of salt. Many people writing there have an agenda,
and some are clueless. If you're reading about something
controversial, check the discussion pages; they can often point out
that there is a conflict in
So am I -- thought that was via a compatibility layer, though?
I know I'm running Adobe's flash player, which has not been released
in a 64-bit version, on my 64-bit box here...
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Nuno Magalhães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> «(Java, Flash, etc. are not yet released i
Hi Ted,
Thanks for clarifying -- hopefully that'll give the wiser heads around
here a bit more of a lead on how to help you.
I've done a little bit of research into virtualization, but only just
scratching the surface, and nothing on the level that you're
describing--it sounds like you'll have a
won't necessarily be
the best answers. It might be helpful if you could specify why you're
asking, or what exactly you're trying to do.
Best,
Jeff Soules
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me regarding my confusion w
>> What do you mean by "up to par"?
> http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/up+to+par
I would venture to guess that we understand the expression, but just
don't know what you're talking about.
What specifically about the chip did you want to test? That it's
operating at the advertised clock speed,
> GMail is known buggy and not suitable for mailing list use, if only for
> it's propensity to send HTML when the user wasn't expecting to, and it's
> brutal lack of Reply to Mailing List and poor threading.
And yet, it's free-as-in-beer, without having to expose your home system
to the vulnerabil
Per Arthur A:
> There's a flash for etch how-to on debian forums. Have you tried that?
I assume you're referring to http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=28671 --
in fact I had no idea such a thing existed. It's pretty chaotic though, since
there's a number of suggestions that would work for o
Hi all,
Open to any advice. My ultimate goal is to get a fully functional Flash
player in a browser in my Debian Etch installation (amd64 base).
I use Gnome and don't care much for KDE & Konqueror.
Here's what I've tried so far:
*Iceweasel + swfdec -- without success. I'm looking to use YouTub
ext in other alert
boxes?
Anyway, the browser is doing its job; it is just possible to do some really
annoying things with Javascript. If it bothers you sufficiently, turn off
javascript.
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Bret Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Jeff Soule
> that isallowed by Iceape, to take control of Iceape), Iceape opens multiple
> pop-up windows, and, if one of the pop-up windows is inadvertently, directly
> manually closed, the application crashes.
Funny you mention this -- I don't think this is due to malicious code, because
I have had a simil
Latency, risk of failure, sure... also sheer design complexity (since you have
to solve the geometry of fitting more circuitry in the same space), and
subsequent complexity of fabrication (since you have to actually make
those tiny little circuits). There's also heat dissipation, which isn't so so
Emailed too soon -- I was actually able to run the nvidia installer script
without a problem
this time around (mysteriously!) so I am now all set up and can resume
setting up the
new Debian box.
Thanks again to everyone for your advice and patience!
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Jeff Soules
>
> > You can also see that I've disabled glx output and restricted screen
> > resolution to 1024x768 or lower (non-widescreen resolutions) in the
> > hope that this might help, but no luck so far.
I should've been clearer -- I made those changes through dpkg-reconfigure.
(I've grown
quite comfor
Thanks for the help so far, everyone.
> I have retried using both of the generic drivers. Now I'm getting a
> > fatal server error -- no screens found.
> > Still not working, but at least it's enough to start me on further
> > research.
> >>
> > The monitor in question is an Acer 22" lcd, if anyo
cd, if anyone out there has any
experience with these.
I will keep looking into this and report back when I find a solution, but in
the mean time if anyone has any further suggestions I am all ears :)
Best,
Jeff
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Mumia W.. <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTE
n, I would be very grateful.
Thanks!
Best,
Jeff Soules
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