Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hardening SSL without rejecting users

2010-04-26 Thread Eray Aslan
On 27.04.2010 05:19, Grant wrote: > I've been advised to harden my SSL in the following ways: > > 1. disable SSL 2.0 Agreed. There is no need to support SSL 2.0 anymore. > 2. disable use of SSL ciphers which offer either weak or no encryption For maximum compatibility, support AES, RC4 and 3DE

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have a machine that's a MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours it wastes electricity. To make more use of the hardware my wife and son use it at tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Apr 2010, at 12:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). Assuming it is an LCD / TFT or otherwise not-a-big-glass-tube monitor, this will make the display LESS sharp. You should make the icons & fonts *themselves*

Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts

2010-04-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Apr 2010, at 20:10, Paul Hartman wrote: 2010/4/26 : Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Some from corefonts, others are probably copyrighted by microsoft. Corefonts themselves are copyrighted

[gentoo-user] {OT} hardening SSL without rejecting users

2010-04-26 Thread Grant
I've been advised to harden my SSL in the following ways: 1. disable SSL 2.0 2. disable use of SSL ciphers which offer either weak or no encryption 3. disable anonymous SSL ciphers Will some website users not be able to use https if I do this? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-26 Thread Grant
>> >> Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the >> >> keyboard shortcuts.  Any ideas on that? >> >> >> >> - Grant >> >> >> > Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). >> > in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad >> > there

Re: [gentoo-user] AT&T DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes

2010-04-26 Thread Grant
>> >> I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm >> >> having trouble keeping a stable connection.  Periodically I need to >> >> run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the >> >> Westell modem (which is also a router although AT&T won't admit it). >> >> Th

Re: [gentoo-user] AT&T DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes

2010-04-26 Thread Grant
>> >> I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm >> >> having trouble keeping a stable connection.  Periodically I need to >> >> run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the >> >> Westell modem (which is also a router although AT&T won't admit it). >> >> Th

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
David W Noon wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:02 +0200, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote about > Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown > buttons: > > >I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the > >policykit use flag, so I am not sure whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-26 Thread Indexer
On 27/04/2010, at 8:48 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Montag, 26. April 2010 schrieb Peter Humphrey: >> Hello list, >> >> My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno >> domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at >> shutdown so it restarts a

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 26. April 2010 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno > domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at > shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the > rigmarole of setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:46:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I deleted them all, logged out of KDE and back in. I still get the same thing as before with hp-setup. Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a

[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becomi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:46:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > Well, I deleted them all, logged out of KDE and back in. I still get > the same thing as before with hp-setup. > > Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know > it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know > it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in > KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 01:53 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root r

[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/26/2010 01:53 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 26 April 2010 19:59:26 Dale wrote: > walt wrote: > > On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it > >> on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this > >> little error message: > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:40:02 +0200, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons: >I did not look in gconf editor, and gdm at least, is compiled with the >policykit use flag, so I am not sure where to go with this. Where >would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 10:59 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer N

[gentoo-user] Re: Cheese crashes with output concerning libgnomebreakpad.so

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/26/2010 09:26 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Here is the stdout from running cheese at the cli: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory That file is from gnome-extra/bug-buddy. Do you have that package

[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/26/2010 10:59 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol spe

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
Jonathan wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- > > restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action > > without asking for any kind of password or any authenticatio

Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Hartman
2010/4/26 : > Hello > > I'm looking for the following fonts. > Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following > fonts. Some from corefonts, others are probably copyrighted by microsoft. Google for msfonts and msfonts-style and you can get RPM full of these fonts but it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packa

[gentoo-user] gphoto2 won't work

2010-04-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
I am trying to offload pictures from our digital camera (Kodeak EasyShare CX7300) using the command gphoto2 -P [1]. This command has worked for years to offload pictures from the camera. Now, this command gives me the output: *** Error *** PTP Invalid Transaction ID *** Error ***

[gentoo-user] Cheese crashes with output concerning libgnomebreakpad.so

2010-04-26 Thread ubiquitous1980
Here is the stdout from running cheese at the cli: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory cheese: xcb_io.c:176: process_responses: Assertion `!(req && current_request && !(((long) (req->sequence) - (long) (

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Jonathan
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- > restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action > without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- > how do I fix thi

[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-26 Thread walt
On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gt

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 April 2010 13:28:50 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I don't want a non-root user to be able to shut the computer down -- > I did it my mistake and its strange to have it there anyway -- least > it should do is ask for the root password. Ah, I see. Well, that's more-or-less how SuSE us

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:28 AM, wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >> >> > Using gdm when I am at the login screen there  are two buttons -- >> > restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the >> > action without a

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- > > restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the > > action without asking for any kind of password or any authenticat

[gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug report

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 April 2010 10:06:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- > restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the > action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication > at all -- how do I fix this

Re: [gentoo-user] Random failures: lvremove

2010-04-26 Thread Roman Naumann
Just wanted to let you know, that the error no longer occurs since I updated to lvm2-2.02.63-r1. Regards, Roman Naumann On Sunday 18 April 2010 12:38:45 Roman Naumann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using LVM, having / and /home as logical volumes and a backup script > creating a logical snapshot volume o

Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts

2010-04-26 Thread Dale
Kacper Kopczyński wrote: Dnia 2010-04-26, o godz. 11:20:12 fajfu...@wp.pl napisał(a): Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Thank you. < SNIP> emerge gentoolkit equery b /usr/share/fonts/msfo

Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts

2010-04-26 Thread Dale
fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Thank you. <> I found a couple of those in media-fonts/corefonts. You may want to install that and see what is missing afterwards. Also, t

Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts

2010-04-26 Thread Kacper Kopczyński
Dnia 2010-04-26, o godz. 11:20:12 fajfu...@wp.pl napisał(a): > Hello > > > I'm looking for the following fonts. > Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the > following fonts. > > Thank you. > > > > /usr/share/doc/msfonts > /usr/share/doc/msfonts/hebrew.png > /usr/share

[gentoo-user] msfonts

2010-04-26 Thread fajfusio
Hello I'm looking for the following fonts.Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the followingfonts.Thank you.   /usr/share/doc/msfonts/usr/share/doc/msfonts/hebrew.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/index.html/usr/share/doc/msfonts/kdeconf.png/usr/share/doc/msfonts/konqconf.png/usr/sh

[gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread covici
Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this, seems like a big security hole to me. Thanks. -- Your life is like

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN speed either 800KB or 3MB

2010-04-26 Thread Stroller
On 25 Apr 2010, at 10:07, Adam wrote: Downloads over my 802.1g WLAN seem to always be at either of these two speeds. Billon ADSL+WLAN router one end, Intel 5100 on the laptop. Any ideas on how i stop it falling back to the slower speed? Move the laptop closer to the access point. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] xypic wants ruby?

2010-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> provides xy-pic.  Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? > > Probably because it installs a heck lot more than just xypic? The full > list gives > >  asyfig autoarea bardiag