Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 22:02, deloptes wrote: > In kde3 the "idiots" didn't think of us poor people not using latin and > associated per default ALT+K to switch the keymap. Now if you switch from > english to rushian/bulgarian or whatever ALT+K gives a completely different > keycode ... So I had

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:14, Dotan Cohen wrote: > System Settings -> Input and Output > RightClick -> New -> Global Shortcut -> Command It's called "Input Actions". But yes, this works. Still, the current way things are done are less than ideal. Thus: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23661

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 21:27, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Mine is in Hebrew, but there should be a "View" menu, then "Previews". Click > it! Funny, never noticed that. The setting is not persistant over all directories, though. > Settings -> Dolphin Settings -> Editable Address Bar (again, > transla

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 19:19, Patricia Fraser wrote: > The thing I miss most in KDE4 is: pausing the cursor over a music > file in Konq File previews, good point! Either I am too stupid or both dolphin and konqui stopped showing previews of picture files instead of the generic "image" icon. Al

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:22, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Can you try with rekonq or even Firefox? Firefox is a real memory pig. Iceweasel does not have these issues, but then I almost never use it so the test pool is a _lot_ smaller. Never tried rekonq, I can do so tonight. > Try running "top > top.

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:14, Dotan Cohen wrote: > It works! I will give this way a try at home. Promise :) Richard PS: If I forget, please nag. PPS: Thanks for caring about these issues so much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:08, Dotan Cohen wrote: > What browser? Konqui. Is there any other browser on earth? ;) And yes, this is true for both KHTML & Webkit. > Is it only on specific sites? While some sites seem to trigger it more often, this happens with all sites. > Flash? Not if I can

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 15:22, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Other things that just don't seem inuitive *for me* that were in KDE > 3.5. I dare anyone to create a new application hotkey without using google ;) Why this feature can not be accessed from System Settings directly is beyond me. And I mean _c

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 14:59, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Please, let me know what KDE 4 is missing for you. KDE 4.4 has only a > handful of regressions from KDE 3.5.10, and they are not dealbreakers. > Some of those are addressed in KDE 4.5. Not missing as such, but there is one thing which annoys me

Re: Opportunistic apt sources?

2010-04-19 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 00:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > I'd use symlinks, where sources.list points to either sources.list.home, > sources.list.work or sources.list.internet, and a short script to flip > between them. That means I would need to bend the links and run apt-get update every time, thoug

Opportunistic apt sources?

2010-04-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, I was wondering if there was any such thing as an opportunistic apt source. By opportunistic, I mean that I want to be able to define repositories that have no Packages.gz of their own and might or might not be available at any given time. If I try to install foo, I would love to have a w

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-24 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 21:28, Richard Hartmann wrote: > From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. LaCiE > seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on > Linux, but I am loath to try it for the simple reason that it's closed. Fwiw, there

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 02:21, John Jason Jordan wrote: > That's what I thought too, but I read somewhere that you just do it > again. However *do not eject the media before redoing the image*. > Apparently that is the secret. I have done it, so I can vouch that it > works, and it does improve th

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 22:26, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Also, I read that there has been an update which improves image > quality. http://www.mivadika.com/images/2007/september/LightScribe.jpg Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 22:12, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 1) The image is black and white only Yes, I was aware of that. You can get colored CD/DVD blanks, though. > 3) The image quality sucks, although you can get better results by > burning twice. Doesn't LightScribe start at a random locat

Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, my new drive comes with LightScribe support. >From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. LaCiE seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on Linux, but I am loath to try it for the simple reason that it's closed. Any and all help appreciated. Than

Re: Possibly non-fatal smart errors

2009-04-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 22:10, Richard Hartmann wrote: > PS: If the extended test comes up with anything bad, I > will throw it away, anyway. fwiw: # 1 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 441 - Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Possibly non-fatal smart errors

2009-04-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, I have a disk which gives me the following smart output. The stopped self-test is my bad. What do you guys think? I would tend to say the drive is OK, but 16 errors is a tad too much, imo. Thanks, Richard PS: If the extended test comes up with anything bad, I will throw it away, anywa

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 21:25, Florian Weimer wrote: > Yes, but I don't know if Zabbix is part of the solution. Well, Zabbix is not ideal as it's a non-common tool. eMail is a lot nicer, there are not automated parsers for something like this. A SNMP based solution or something like syslog might

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 20:29, Florian Weimer wrote: > What would be required for Zabbix integration? Bascially, the zabbix agent would need a plugin/module/script which it can use to forward data. > What kind of data does Zabbix need? It can collect, and then trigger on, arbitrary data. In

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:13, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, it's just polite to provide some context when referring to > generally-unfamiliar software. I was under the impression that it's quite well-known. But we both know what the other means, so yah :) Richard -- To UNSUBS

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:48, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zabbix being??? A monitoring solution[1] which has agents[2] running on the monitored system which report to a server[3]. If you are interested in the idea I had, it's the first hit with google. If you are not, why ask? Or

Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, I am wondering if anyone has created a script to feed debsecan data into Zabbix. Alternatively, a solution with lets RT parse & classify debsecan output would be great. How are you handling this? Self-baked scripts to parse your daily mail? Are you doing it by hand? Not at all? Thanks :

Re: Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

2008-12-02 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 18:27, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Many of tning packages many are multimedia related. > > What exactly is this sentence saying? My brain can't parse it and I don't > think "tning" is a word. s/tning/those/ Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Cracking SSL passwords for fun and profit

2008-11-27 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 19:22, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > openssh is not the only ssh client in Debian. We also have putty, > lsh-client and dropbear. Oooh. Very good point. Very good, indeed. /me looks :) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Cracking SSL passwords for fun and profit

2008-11-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:27, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know what keyspace you used for your password? i.e. how many > (roughly) characters, were they letters, numbers, punctuation, etc? I do remember I chose a lowsec one. I.e. it should be [a-zA-Z0-9]{6-8} > Use yo

Cracking SSH passwords for fun and profit (was: Cracking SSL passwords for fun and profit)

2008-11-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 23:54, Richard Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [stuff] Sorry, s/L/H/. I brain typoed, there :( Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cracking SSL passwords for fun and profit

2008-11-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, I lost the password for my router ages ago. As I will move in the foreseeable future, I need to reconfigure it. Now, I could be boring and just replace the password/the OS, but I thougt I would try something a little more fun. Namely, I want to brute-force the password via SSH. Unfortunate

Re: ID tied to hardware? (was Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?)

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:45, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which part of the hardware? And what if you upgrade/replace the bit of > hardware upon which your "host id" is based? Switching RAM should prolly not change the ID, but motherboard, CPU, disks etc are all fair game. And as l

Re: ID tied to hardware? (was Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?)

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:50, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus That can be side-stepping by defining the crucial parts of a compuer, er, ship. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:28, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about virtual hosts that may migrate from one piece of hardware to > another? Wouldn't VMs mean that you need a unique host ID separate from > hardware? Yes, that is the point. But a cloned VM would create a duplic

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:42, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was agreeing with you... Oups. Misread you there, sorry. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:02, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Debian installation I am writing this from was first installed on almost > completely different hardware. The only commonality between that PC and my > current box is that I brought the boot disk (hda) with me. In this c

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:20, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've absolutely no idea what you are trying to do here or why. I'm a little > curious about that. I want to assign all hosts a unique id that is consistent across all monitoring and accounting solutions. The existance of VMs

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 19:04, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hostid - contained in the coreutils package. Unfortunately, this id is either read from /etc/hostid or calculated from the IPv4 address which a gethostbyhostname_r(3) on the system's hostname returns. This means the id is not

Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-17 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, I am wondering if there is any sane way to get a unique ID for a system. That means both hardware- and Xen-based. Things I tried include, but are not limited to: dmidecode | grep ID # fails as some PCs have the same UUID & ID hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep Serial # fails on Xen boxen ls -l

Please introduce a sane way to merge config file differences during package installation

2007-09-03 Thread Richard Hartmann
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.14 Severity: Wishlist Everyone will know a message like this: Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options

A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Hartmann
Everyone will know a message like this: Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's

Free dive log software?

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
Is anyone aware of (good) software that allows you to log your dives, your brevets and everything else that relates to diving? KDE/Qt with SQLlite preferred, but I am not too particular on the exact mechanisms. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Dynamically unload kernel modules?

2007-06-17 Thread Richard Hartmann
Just use rmmod. It will refuse to unload modules that are in use. At least for ipw2100, that is not the case. It unloads just fine while eth2 is up and happily transmitting data. Richard

Dynamically unload kernel modules?

2007-06-17 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, I would want to check if a module is in active use by hardware and , if not, unload it. I.e. if there is no USB device connected when I run this script, I want to rmmod all USB related modules. I have tried to get that info via proc or lsmod, but neither worked. Any hints appreciated, R