[SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-20 Thread steve
Le 20-09-2018, à 20:25:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : You don't need to convert anything. UEFI can use DOS partition tables. I know since that's what I'm currently doing. Doing what ? Using msdos partition tables. I am not talking about you doing anything. I am saying that native UE

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread Chris
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:28:31 +0500 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Depending on source of your disk image I'd try to restore windows > bootloader (bcdboot) inside disk image and see if that helps. You can > do it from installation media without proceeding with repair > procedure. Press Shift-F10 t

Re: CdEmu

2018-09-20 Thread A_Man_Without_Clue
On 09/21/2018 02:28 AM, deloptes wrote: > A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > >> I am trying to run CdEmu on buster but unable to do so. >> >> I get >> >> "ERROR: Failed to connect to CDEmu daemon: g-dbus-error-quark: Error >> calling StartServiceByName for net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon: >> GDBus.Error:org.

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Default User
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 18:39 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 21/09/2018 07:51, Default User wrote: > > Using advice given, using apt-listings and aptitude full-update, l was > able > > to update everything except the 3 packages in question, which are now > > "pinned", with a priority of 3000. > > I

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-20 Thread deloptes
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I suspect that the vast majority of people deploying systems are doing > so behind some sort of device that provides border security to the local > network (e.g., router/firewall/NAT/etc.).  So, if the default threat > model is "a relatively trusted network with adequat

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread Chris
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:13:28 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > I'm pleased to report that with the firmware change, the new image > booted fine first try! Now I just need to do a little tuning. Which tool did you use to create the disk image? Was it a physical machine before? Did you have to "repair" th

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-20 02:11 PM, didier gaumet wrote: Le 20/09/2018 à 19:25, Gary Dale a écrit : Thanks. I also use the virt-manager GUI. However what it does is store the options and creates the command line, so its rarely relevant. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to expose the firmware option once the V

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 09:02:26AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: > Hi Roberto, > > On Friday 21 September 2018 08:51 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:34:50AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am using Debian and the recently I learned that a standard

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-20 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi Roberto, On Friday 21 September 2018 08:51 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:34:50AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: Hi, I am using Debian and the recently I learned that a standard Debian installation allows all 3 types of traffics especially incoming by default. What

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:34:50AM +0530, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian and the recently I learned that a standard Debian > installation allows all 3 types of traffics especially incoming by default. What do you mean by "all 3 types of traffics"? > I know I can easily use ipt

Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-20 Thread Subhadip Ghosh
Hi, I am using Debian and the recently I learned that a standard Debian installation allows all 3 types of traffics especially incoming by default. I know I can easily use iptables to tighten the rules but I wanted to know the reasons behind the choice of this default behaviour and if it make

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 21/09/2018 07:51, Default User wrote: Using advice given, using apt-listings and aptitude full-update, l was able to update everything except the 3 packages in question, which are now "pinned", with a priority of 3000. I find apt-mark hold more convenient than pinning. I do have both cron

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 September 2018 15:34:07 Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Sep 2018 at 11:24:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 20 September 2018 09:31:57 Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-09-20, Siard wrote: > > > >> > > > Is there any way to print from mupdf? It's very fast for > > > >> > > > viewing P

[SOLVED] Re: Bind: A caching local server caches but not for long

2018-09-20 Thread local10
Sep 16, 2018, 6:40 PM by pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org: > old.reddit.com. 300 IN CNAME reddit.map.fastly.net. > reddit.map.fastly.net.30 IN A 151.101.121.140 > > These DNS records have short TTL, less than 8 minutes. > It is expected behaviour that a cache

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Default User
> > > Hi guys. Thank you for your replies. Please note that I am really not familiar with either cron or (especially) with package pinning. Using advice given, using apt-listings and aptitude full-update, l was able to update everything except the 3 packages in question, which are now "pinned", w

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Sep 2018 at 15:30:06 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-09-20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 20 September 2018 09:31:57 Curt wrote: > > > >> On 2018-09-20, Siard wrote: > >> >> > > > Is there any way to print from mupdf? It's very fast for > >> >> > > > viewing PDFs but of limited use

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Sep 2018 at 11:24:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2018 09:31:57 Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-09-20, Siard wrote: > > >> > > > Is there any way to print from mupdf? It's very fast for > > >> > > > viewing PDFs but of limited use to me if it can't print. > > >> > >

Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/09/2018 à 08:53, steve a écrit : Le 19-09-2018, à 23:30:40 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 19/09/2018 à 16:50, steve a écrit : Googling around, I suspect that these errors come from the fact that the BIOS is configured to but in Legacy mode (aka Bios mode) rather than in the more m

Re: Synaptic problems - operator ERROR ;{

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/09/2018 à 17:33, Richard Owlett a écrit : > I'm using Debian 9 with MATE. > I installed Emacs using Synaptic. [...] >  There error messages were: >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. [...] not using Synaptic myself, but from the Synaptic Help: To Fix Broken Packa

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/09/2018 à 19:25, Gary Dale a écrit : > Thanks. I also use the virt-manager GUI. However what it does is store > the options and creates the command line, so its rarely relevant. > Unfortunately it doesn't seem to expose the firmware option once the VM > is created. > > I've installed the pa

Re: CdEmu

2018-09-20 Thread deloptes
A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > I am trying to run CdEmu on buster but unable to do so. > > I get > > "ERROR: Failed to connect to CDEmu daemon: g-dbus-error-quark: Error > calling StartServiceByName for net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process >

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-20 04:09 AM, didier gaumet wrote: >From what you describe, I would surmise that the main problem is that you use BIOS instead of UEFI to boot your Windows image: if it is not already installed, install the ovmf package and invoke KVM with the needed parameters. There is an ovmf page in

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 September 2018 11:30:06 Curt wrote: > On 2018-09-20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 20 September 2018 09:31:57 Curt wrote: > >> On 2018-09-20, Siard wrote: > >> >> > > > Is there any way to print from mupdf? It's very fast for > >> >> > > > viewing PDFs but of limited use to

Re: repositories_response

2018-09-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:54:13 - bolkar...@elude.in wrote: Hello bolkar...@elude.in, Placing on list, where it should be. >do you know the command that i must do please ? Yes. >i did yet try "apt-key" using su privileges - it did not work. Of course it didn't; It requires further info. Wh

Re: repositories & terminal

2018-09-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 02:42:23PM -, bolkar...@elude.in wrote: hi all, i would like add a key (synaptic > repositories > software & updates - authentication) using the terminal/console. do you know the command that i must do please ? * i tried : # gpg --export --armor [key] | apt-key add it

Synaptic problems - operator ERROR ;{

2018-09-20 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm using Debian 9 with MATE. I installed Emacs using Synaptic. It apparently installed and ran correctly. It properly opened a Tcl file expecting to see it with some default indentation scheme - it wasn't. I closed it, returning to first window. I started exploring the documentation available

Re: repositories & terminal

2018-09-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:42:23 - bolkar...@elude.in wrote: Hello bolkar...@elude.in, >do you know the command that i must do please ? apt-key, which requires you to use su(do) privileges. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediatel

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-20, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2018 09:31:57 Curt wrote: > >> On 2018-09-20, Siard wrote: >> >> > > > Is there any way to print from mupdf? It's very fast for >> >> > > > viewing PDFs but of limited use to me if it can't print. >> >> > > >> >> > > Using a mupdf opti

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 September 2018 09:31:57 Curt wrote: > On 2018-09-20, Siard wrote: > >> > > > Is there any way to print from mupdf? It's very fast for > >> > > > viewing PDFs but of limited use to me if it can't print. > >> > > > >> > > Using a mupdf option? No. > >> > > >> > Have you seen: > >> >

repositories & terminal

2018-09-20 Thread bolkaroff
hi all, i would like add a key (synaptic > repositories > software & updates - authentication) using the terminal/console. do you know the command that i must do please ? * i tried : # gpg --export --armor [key] | apt-key add it does not work. thx. debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Jason
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:01:04PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote: > With the PDF file open in mupdf, you can enter this Bash command in a > terminal to print the PDF: > >pdfviewercommand="\/usr\/lib\/mupdf\/mupdf-x11 -r [1-9][0-9]\+" ; > pdfpid=$(ps -lu $(whoami) | grep mupdf | sed 's/^[^ ]\+ \+[^

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:17:51AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > didier gaumet writes: > > Please note that security updates for "unstable" distribution are not > > managed by the security team. Hence, "unstable" does not get security > > updates in a timely manner. > > There is no promise of securi

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-20, Siard wrote: >> > > > >> > > > Is there any way to print from mupdf? It's very fast for viewing >> > > > PDFs but of limited use to me if it can't print. >> > > >> > > Using a mupdf option? No. >> > >> > Have you seen: >> > gv, epdfview, qpdfview, xpdf >> >> evince, atril > > Yo

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread John Hasler
didier gaumet writes: > Please note that security updates for "unstable" distribution are not > managed by the security team. Hence, "unstable" does not get security > updates in a timely manner. There is no promise of security updates to Unstable but in practice the developers upload fixes quite

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Siard
Henning Follmann: > Allen Hoover: > > Brian: > > > Jason: > > > > Felipe Portales: > > > > > Glenn English: > > > > > > Anybody know of a civilized, bug-free pdf viewer? (will > > > > > > display full screen with no or thin borders, allows for > > > > > > manipulating size and position) > > > > > >

CdEmu

2018-09-20 Thread A_Man_Without_Clue
Hi all, I am trying to run CdEmu on buster but unable to do so. I get "ERROR: Failed to connect to CDEmu daemon: g-dbus-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon exited w

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:32:34AM -0400, Allen Hoover wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 08:59:09PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 19 Sep 2018 at 14:41:24 -0500, Jason wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 01:32:47AM -0300, Felipe Portales wrote: > > > > El domingo, 16 de septiembre de 2018 17:1

Re: Print with mupdf?

2018-09-20 Thread Allen Hoover
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 08:59:09PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 19 Sep 2018 at 14:41:24 -0500, Jason wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 01:32:47AM -0300, Felipe Portales wrote: > > > El domingo, 16 de septiembre de 2018 17:15:16 -03, Glenn English escribió: > > > > Anybody know of a civilized, b

Re: Re: Fwd: Re: [DNG] GPL version 2 is a bare license. Recind. (Regarding (future) linux Code of Conduct Bannings).

2018-09-20 Thread Martin Schroeder
Rescission of GPL for reasons other than violating the terms of the license would be a ridiculous form copyright trolling which, if still possible, should definitely be outlawed. On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:15 PM Martin Schroeder wrote: > > If the license clearly states that permission is granted t

Re: Re: Fwd: Re: [DNG] GPL version 2 is a bare license. Recind. (Regarding (future) linux Code of Conduct Bannings).

2018-09-20 Thread Martin Schroeder
If the license clearly states that permission is granted to any third party to use the code provided that the same rights are granted to everyone else who uses the subsequently distributed versions, wouldn't the original holder who is willing to rescind the license fully also be liable to compensat

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
>From what you describe, I would surmise that the main problem is that you use BIOS instead of UEFI to boot your Windows image: if it is not already installed, install the ovmf package and invoke KVM with the needed parameters. There is an ovmf page in the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UE

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Joe
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:26:05 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > Read the bug reports and decide whether any of them will hurt you: > > On 20/09/2018 12:54, Default User wrote: > > grave bugs of libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (2.0.3-3 → 2.1.4-1) > > b1 - #908800 - nautilus: can't use nautilus without >

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Joe
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:16:30 -0400 Default User wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:05 PM John Hasler > wrote: > > > You are running Unstable. It can be like that. > > -- > > John Hasler > > jhas...@newsguy.com > > Elmwood, WI USA > > > > > > 182 packages? No, three. The rest can be upgrad

Re: using a Windows 7 disk image with KVM?

2018-09-20 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 20.09.2018 10:08, Gary Dale wrote: > Is this even possible? I can create a KVM guest from a Windows 7 > install DVD iso and it works fine. However I have a Windows 7 disk > image that I want to virtualize that I can't get to go beyond "Booting > from Hard Disk..." > > Windows 7 running in KVM al

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/09/2018 à 03:16, Default User a écrit : >  182 packages? from https://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ : "The unstable distribution ("sid") The code name for Debian's development distribution is "sid", aliased to "unstable". Most of the development work that is done in Debian, is uploaded to