[64studio-users] Ticket about Firefox's default search engines

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I really, really understand ethical reasons for removing Google as default, but on the other hand - you will have best successes by using Google - you do have google.land/linux/ the Google search engine just for Linux - you might want to add the CustomizeGoogle as default extension to Firefox in

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> How can this be done for the panel applet? >>> >>> >> apt-get install gksu-polkit >> > > The idea to set SUID results from the fact, that there is no PolicyKit > for Hardy. SUID is made for such cases. The probable security risk for a > multi user syste

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>> How can this be done for the panel applet? >> > > apt-get install gksu-polkit The idea to set SUID results from the fact, that there is no PolicyKit for Hardy. SUID is made for such cases. The probable security risk for a multi user system is, that some user could harm the system, but

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Robin Gareus wrote: > > I'm not sure if /etc/hdparm.conf accepts wildcards, but I'd hazard a > guess that > /dev/discs/disc*/disc { >spindown_time = 240 > } > may be a good default for 64studio. > > > No, I don't want the disk drive that I'm usin

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robin Gareus wrote: I'm not sure if /etc/hdparm.conf accepts wildcards, but I'd hazard a guess that /dev/discs/disc*/disc { spindown_time = 240 } may be a good default for 64studio. No, I don't want the disk drive that I'm using is being turned off, even if I

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Robin Gareus
Gustin Johnson wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > but making hard disks sleep is a PITA on Linux, >>> indeed. >>> > Really? I have I used this ability under Linux for the better part of a > decade. >> :( still, setting it up properly is not trivial. hdparm doesn't work on ma

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gustin Johnson wrote: > AppArmor and a firewall are redundant? The phrase "defense in depth" is > not just a sales term, every level needs to be protected. Microsoft > understands this as well, perhaps better than most. If AppArmor and a Firewall are needed, than I can't understand that they ar

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Robin Gareus
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Michael Jarosch wrote: >> >>> Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 08:08 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: >>> There might be a better way to do it. >>> There will be a better way to do it

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gustin Johnson wrote: > I did not know that AMD could do this, perhaps they got something right with > AM2 after all. I never monitored that my AM2 Athlon does or does not an independent control of the frequency scaling for each core, it seems to be, that it doesn't do it. _

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Michael Jarosch wrote: >> >>> Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 08:08 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: >>> There might be a better way to do it.

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> but making hard disks sleep is a PITA on Linux, >>> >> indeed. >> Really? I have I used this ability under Linux for the better part of a decade. > > :( > >>> hdparm doesn't work on many machines, so the hard >>> di

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robin Gareus wrote: > ask for a password to change the governor would IMHO be > the preferable solution. The panel will run the applet without asking for the password, running the latest chosen performance, even if sessions would not be restored and I only would need to give a password, if I will

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robin Gareus wrote: > Michael Jarosch wrote: > >> Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 14:09 +0200 schrieb Robin Gareus: >> >> >>> I never switch these anyway. Just using 'ondemand' is sufficient. It's >>> got the best powersaving and no impact on performance (at least not on >>> Intel CPUs). >>>

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gustin Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Jarosch wrote: > >> Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 08:08 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: >> >>> There might be a better way to do it. >>> >> There will be a better way to do it: Later versions (but certainly

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Robin Gareus
Michael Jarosch wrote: > Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 14:09 +0200 schrieb Robin Gareus: > >> I never switch these anyway. Just using 'ondemand' is sufficient. It's >> got the best powersaving and no impact on performance (at least not on >> Intel CPUs). > > We discussed that issue on the 64studio-l

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Jarosch wrote: > Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 08:08 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: >> There might be a better way to do it. > > There will be a better way to do it: Later versions (but certainly not > that of 8.04) of the "Frequency Scaling Monitor

Re: [64studio-users] [Business enquiry] programs

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dave Phillips wrote: > Daniel James wrote: > >> Hi Shantie, >> >> >> >>> What program can work with Linux to do Lightscribe labels >>> >>> >> This is possible, but I never tested it because I believe the software >> is proprietary, and so we haven't considered it for our d

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Jarosch
Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 14:09 +0200 schrieb Robin Gareus: > I never switch these anyway. Just using 'ondemand' is sufficient. It's > got the best powersaving and no impact on performance (at least not on > Intel CPUs). We discussed that issue on the 64studio-list several time ago and (I guess

Re: [64studio-users] [Business enquiry] programs

2009-06-29 Thread Dave Phillips
Daniel James wrote: > Hi Shantie, > > >> What program can work with Linux to do Lightscribe labels >> > > This is possible, but I never tested it because I believe the software > is proprietary, and so we haven't considered it for our distro: > > http://lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linu

Re: [64studio-users] [Business enquiry] programs

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>> http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803 >> >> > > I don't know this one. > I visited the link. It seems to be the same as for the other link. 32Bit seems to be required. If you need 64Bit you should run Suse or better stay at 64 Studio :) and don't use LightScribe :(.

Re: [64studio-users] [Business enquiry] programs

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > Hi Shantie, > > >> What program can work with Linux to do Lightscribe labels >> > > This is possible, but I never tested it because I believe the software > is proprietary, and so we haven't considered it for our distro: > > http://lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linu

Re: [64studio-users] [Business enquiry] programs

2009-06-29 Thread Daniel James
Hi Shantie, > What program can work with Linux to do Lightscribe labels This is possible, but I never tested it because I believe the software is proprietary, and so we haven't considered it for our distro: http://lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx http://www.lacie.com/products/p

Re: [64studio-users] when is the final release of 3.0?

2009-06-29 Thread Daniel James
Hi Quentin, > I'll speak to Daniel to see if we can start a "community team" that will > focus on work on the free distro only. That would be one way to do it, although a fix in a particular package tends to help all distros that use it, including our commercial projects. The main problem at t

Re: [64studio-users] VST

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robin Gareus wrote: > try 'opera' [on Linux] ;) A very comfortable and very, very quick browser, while Firefox is veery slw, even without extensions. I used Opera some time ago on Linux. I only have the IE for a Windows installation and in addition to this only an admin account, bec

Re: [64studio-users] VST [solved]

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I did it with Iceweasel on my 64 Studio 2.1 Etch and it worked, but when I received the email from Steinberg with Thunderbird on 64 Studio 3.0-beta3, this was detected as spam, sometimes other innocuous mails are also detected as spam, but I never trained Thunderbird to detect those mails as sp

Re: [64studio-users] VST

2009-06-29 Thread Robin Gareus
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I tried to get VST by > http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/3rd_party_developer.html. > Even if I'm not fine with giving Steinberg all the wanted data, I tried > to give them all data without faking any of the data, but it didn't work > with Firefox. No extension's banned a

[64studio-users] Trouble with Firefox and Konqueror for 3.0-beta on Steinberg homepage

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Didn't came through the list Original Message Subject:VST Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:21:44 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: 64 Studio Users <64studio-users@lists.64studio.com> I tried to get VST by http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/3rd_party_developer.html. Even

[64studio-users] VST

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I tried to get VST by http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/3rd_party_developer.html. Even if I'm not fine with giving Steinberg all the wanted data, I tried to give them all data without faking any of the data, but it didn't work with Firefox. No extension's banned anything, cookies etc. were all

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robin Gareus wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Robin Gareus wrote: >> >>> Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> >>> Gustin Johnson wrote: > I don't think so. Why do you think SUID needs to be set? Setting SUID > is a very bad thing, even if you think you "ne

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Robin Gareus
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Robin Gareus wrote: >> Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> Gustin Johnson wrote: >>> I don't think so. Why do you think SUID needs to be set? Setting SUID is a very bad thing, even if you think you "need" it. >>> To chose by click between 'Ondemand' and

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robin Gareus wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Gustin Johnson wrote: >> >>> I don't think so. Why do you think SUID needs to be set? Setting SUID >>> is a very bad thing, even if you think you "need" it. >>> >>> >> To chose by click between 'Ondemand' and 'Performance' for a use

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Robin Gareus
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> I don't think so. Why do you think SUID needs to be set? Setting SUID >> is a very bad thing, even if you think you "need" it. >> > > To chose by click between 'Ondemand' and 'Performance' for a user > session by using the GNOME panel applet 'CP

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Michael Jarosch wrote: > Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 08:08 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > >> There might be a better way to do it. >> > > There will be a better way to do it: Later versions (but certainly not > that of 8.04) of the "Frequency Scaling Monitor Applet" will support > "policy kit

Re: [64studio-users] CPU freq scaling - Setting SUID required or not required?

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Jarosch
Am Montag, den 29.06.2009, 08:08 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > There might be a better way to do it. There will be a better way to do it: Later versions (but certainly not that of 8.04) of the "Frequency Scaling Monitor Applet" will support "policy kit". For now, there is no better way than settin