Re: Planning for Disk Encryption
On 05/01/13 06:23, T o n g wrote: My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryption, even a single bad sector will have a much larger impact than itself and might ruin the whole disk. ... So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk Encryption? How to cope with it? I'd suggest asking on the dm-crypt mailing list: http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt HTH, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5181bc5f.2020...@holgerdanske.com
Re: Why does my ssh session terminate immediately?
Hi all, thanks for all your suggestions and help. I chose to re-install now, as I am not able to spend more time on this issue. Although I would have loved to know what caused the error in the end, the re-install fixed it and was cheaper than a continued search for the cause. Thanks again for all the help. Regards, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vc7271rd@med.uni-goettingen.de
Re: Thanks to All
On 01 May 2013, staticsafe wrote: > On 5/1/2013 3:27, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > If you need any help, feel free to subscribe to freebsd-questions[0]. > > [0] - http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > Yes, thanks - already done that. I'm enjoying my exploration of FreeBSD. AC - Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130501201510.ga10...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Thanks to All
On Wed, 1 May 2013 09:40:28 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: Hello Chris, >I think the point is that it has nothing to do with age. Ah, I see. Obviously, I'm not as wise as I am old. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" A friend of a friend he got beaten I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: gtk-config
On 2013-05-01 15:05 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: >> , >> | The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to >> | be the name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. >> ` >> > pardon! > of course it should be without extension "pc". I had removed "pc" and now > everything is ok! >> For Multi-Arch, so that multiple instances of libgtk-3-dev are >> coinstallable. > ok but how does system know about this directory? "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH" if you have dpkg-dev, or "gcc -print-multiarch" if you have gcc. > default place for "*.pc" files is /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ and PKG_CONFIG_PATH > variable is not set in my case. How does pkg-config can find gtk+-3.0.pc > file? Debian's pkg-config version is configured to include the multiarch directory in the default search path. Take a look at debian/rules in the pkg-config source package. For more information about multiarch, take a look at http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch and the links there. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gjisrnm@turtle.gmx.de
Re: Planning for Disk Encryption
On 5/1/2013 9:23, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > It's well known that fail to plan means plan to fail. But when comes to > Disk Encryption, I did not see any reasonably planning on disk failure, > even though I've googled extensively. > > My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryption, even a > single bad sector will have a much larger impact than itself and might > ruin the whole disk. That's a rather big risk right there, but I haven't > found article on how to cope with the problem. > > To make it more "interesting"/"practical", consider planning for normal > home user. They differ from big corporation in that, big corporation will > throw away disks once SMART *indicates* the disk is failing, while normal > home user will try still to use it until it fails massively, which hardly > happens. What I used to do is to mark the bad sectors in inodes as bad and > not using them any more. Works great, and I found a similar practice on > the net too -- http://www.linuxforum.com/threads/3265-bad-sectors-on-disk, > "I have some bad sectors on my hard drive. What I did was to make a > partition on the part which has the bad sectors. Then I just do not use > that particular partition. It's been two years now. The rest of the hard > drive is still working well, 12-16 hours every day, seven days a week." > > So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk > Encryption? How to cope with it? > > Thanks > > Regular backups. duplicity, rsnapshot, even good old rsync - pick your poison. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518118dd.1030...@staticsafe.ca
Re: gnome3 mouse issues?
Upon further research I stumbled across a forum where someone suggested killing gnome-shell. I just tried it it and indeed everything was back to normal so that seems to confirm a gnome issue. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:59 AM, songbird wrote: > chris wrote: >> its not a wireless mouse and as i said ive tried several mice and >> disabling the internal touchpad. i looked in the logs after the fact >> and i dont see anything that stands out to me, but its also tricky >> because theres so much other non related noise in the logs its hard to >> filter out > > if you open a text terminal and use tailf > you may see things as they happen instead of > trying to find them later. > > try plugging the mouse into a different > slot. > > > songbird > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pn645a-ejo@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKnNFz8+Z8Fm5Fh-80Nk5_U-Tk+wx=tadme7m6wagyjhfkr...@mail.gmail.com
Planning for Disk Encryption
Hi, It's well known that fail to plan means plan to fail. But when comes to Disk Encryption, I did not see any reasonably planning on disk failure, even though I've googled extensively. My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryption, even a single bad sector will have a much larger impact than itself and might ruin the whole disk. That's a rather big risk right there, but I haven't found article on how to cope with the problem. To make it more "interesting"/"practical", consider planning for normal home user. They differ from big corporation in that, big corporation will throw away disks once SMART *indicates* the disk is failing, while normal home user will try still to use it until it fails massively, which hardly happens. What I used to do is to mark the bad sectors in inodes as bad and not using them any more. Works great, and I found a similar practice on the net too -- http://www.linuxforum.com/threads/3265-bad-sectors-on-disk, "I have some bad sectors on my hard drive. What I did was to make a partition on the part which has the bad sectors. Then I just do not use that particular partition. It's been two years now. The rest of the hard drive is still working well, 12-16 hours every day, seven days a week." So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk Encryption? How to cope with it? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/klr4vq$3bi$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Thanks to All
On 5/1/2013 3:27, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 01 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:14:00PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >>> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Hugo, >>> mine neither >>> >>> Are you saying that you don't take into consideration a company's or >>> developer's morality (insofar as it's possible to know their moral >>> stance) when choosing a product/app/whatever? >> >> I think the point is that it has nothing to do with age. >> > Probably not. As I shall be 80 this month, I thought it was time to > start experimenting with FreeBSD. Clearly a technical challenge; as for > morality, I think FreeBSD, like Debian, scores pretty well for that. > > AC`kkk > If you need any help, feel free to subscribe to freebsd-questions[0]. [0] - http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51811622.1050...@staticsafe.ca
Re: gtk-config
> , > | The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to > | be the name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. > ` > pardon! of course it should be without extension "pc". I had removed "pc" and now everything is ok! > For Multi-Arch, so that multiple instances of libgtk-3-dev are > coinstallable. ok but how does system know about this directory? default place for "*.pc" files is /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ and PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable is not set in my case. How does pkg-config can find gtk+-3.0.pc file? Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/be709835703b3133697078d3446ca07b.squir...@newmail.bilkent.edu.tr
Re: recreating lenny
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:07:45PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I think I need to recreate a lenny system, and could use some advice about > how > to do it. The system was i386, while the one I have now is amd64 (wheezy, > though I have access to an amd65 running lenny). I would certainly create a VM, probably using VirtualBox (because I'm familiar with it). That way you can emulate any hardware you like, and everything is sandboxed. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130501125358.ga10...@panix.com
Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?
Siard wrote: > songbird wrote: >> in the future i'll have to proof read every copy and paste >> operation for funny translations. i don't know about you and how >> much you reference technical documents and copy and paste, but the >> sort of mistranslation is one that would make me shudder. >> >> is there a safer copy and paste function that does preserve fonts? > > My job is doing desktop publishing, ATM we work with Adobe InDesign at > the workplace. Copying from many documents such as .odt and .doc > preserves formatting, but it is a known fact that copying from pdf's > does not. i won't be looking to do that much any longer. > If you have a look at this document's fonts in Adobe Reader (Ctrl-D > > tab Fonts), then you see that very special fonts are used, such as > AdvOT1415ea69.B and AdvOT144a03c1, which are not available for your own > documents anyway. > > But pdf's are simply not the right medium to copy text from. You could > import a pdf in Scribus and do some cropping, but that's all. > This pdf is produced with a program named Arbortext Advanced Print > Publisher, which is unknown to me. It is saved as .ps and translated > into a pdf using Distiller. It may be the same as MS Publisher, where > saving to .ps is the only way for a .pub document to be usable in the > outside world. You could ask the producer to save the document > as .rtf, but in fact, what really should be done in such a case, is to > inform your client that this task is simply not feasable, or at least > laborious and time-consuming. thanks for the info. i'm pretty sure i won't be advising anyone about this sort of thing, so the simple answer is to not do it. in the cases where i do need to copy and paste from a pdf it seems like i'll just have to remind myself to proof read very carefully. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/o3c65a-6hc@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
what is /usr/lib/mime/packages/ used for?
hi, in my case, /usr/lib/mime/packages/freeplane looks like this (I'm developing this package, it's in experimental): application/x-freeplane; /usr/bin/freeplane '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Freeplane MindMap file"; textualnewlines; nametemplate=%s.mm Since there is also /usr/share/mime/packages/freeplane.xml, what is the above file used for? My tests show that it probably does not affect "file --mime foo.mm" (and /usr/share/mime/packages/freeplane.xml affects the way that mime types are handled by GNOME/KDE). Thanks! Best Regards, -- Felix Natter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8738u7j9d5@bitburger.home.felix
Re: gtk-config
andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr schreef: hi all! before this time i was using for compilling my gtk applications next command: #gcc myprogram.c `pkg-config gtk+-3.0.pc --libs --cflags` but now it doesnt work: Failed to open 'gtk+-3.0.pc': No such file or directory No package 'gtk+-3.0.pc' found but i have installed gtk+-3.0.pc file in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gtk+-3.0.pc Why the file placed in such strange place (not in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/)? And how do i can avoid problem with searching for gtk+-3.0.pc? hi try to intall libgtk2.0-dev (squeeze) or higher if compatible (check at sudo synaptic p.e.) reg., steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5180e422.2010...@home.nl
Re: gtk-config
On 2013-05-01 10:46 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > before this time i was using for compilling my gtk applications next command: > #gcc myprogram.c `pkg-config gtk+-3.0.pc --libs --cflags` > but now it doesnt work: I don't think that this ever worked, really. You need to strip the trailing ".pc", as mentioned in the pkg-config manpage: , | The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to | be the name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. ` > Failed to open 'gtk+-3.0.pc': No such file or directory > No package 'gtk+-3.0.pc' found > > but i have installed gtk+-3.0.pc file in > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gtk+-3.0.pc > > Why the file placed in such strange place (not in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/)? For Multi-Arch, so that multiple instances of libgtk-3-dev are coinstallable. > And how do i can avoid problem with searching for gtk+-3.0.pc? Use "pkg-config gtk+-3.0". Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehdrrqeg@turtle.gmx.de
gtk-config
hi all! before this time i was using for compilling my gtk applications next command: #gcc myprogram.c `pkg-config gtk+-3.0.pc --libs --cflags` but now it doesnt work: Failed to open 'gtk+-3.0.pc': No such file or directory No package 'gtk+-3.0.pc' found but i have installed gtk+-3.0.pc file in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gtk+-3.0.pc Why the file placed in such strange place (not in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/)? And how do i can avoid problem with searching for gtk+-3.0.pc? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/965009501ece046e257fd5063e1b0eb7.squir...@newmail.bilkent.edu.tr
Re: Thanks to All
On 01 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:14:00PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:19:36 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom > > wrote: > > > > Hello Hugo, > > > > >mine neither > > > > Are you saying that you don't take into consideration a company's or > > developer's morality (insofar as it's possible to know their moral > > stance) when choosing a product/app/whatever? > > I think the point is that it has nothing to do with age. > Probably not. As I shall be 80 this month, I thought it was time to start experimenting with FreeBSD. Clearly a technical challenge; as for morality, I think FreeBSD, like Debian, scores pretty well for that. AC`kkk -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130501072704.gc6...@acampbell.org.uk
Compatibilità
Salve volevo provare la debian 6 ma non so se la mia scheda video è compatibile (gtx 650 palit) e se possibile prima provarla live Grazie Alfredo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/c190bc04-81ac-49cd-9707-c82022d1a...@gmail.com
