Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-28 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Friday 26 August 2016 23:11:23 Perry E. Metzger wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:06:15 +0200 Frederic Marchal > > wrote: > > On Friday 26 August 2016 11:04:04 Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > According to: > > > > > > https://security-tracker.debian.org

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-26 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Friday 26 August 2016 11:04:04 Perry E. Metzger wrote: > According to: > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5696 > > Wheezy and Jessie are still vulnerable. The attack in question is > kind of bad (it allows blind injection of arbitrary data into > things like http download

Re: How to VNC to active screen on remote system.

2016-02-24 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 24 February 2016 12:12:54 Javier Vasquez wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > ... > > What is the program that will connect to the current session on the remote > > system? I have used it before but I can't remember what it was. > > Are you looking f

Re: URGENTLY need help on using VPN

2015-09-14 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Friday 11 September 2015 14:52:19 Li Wei wrote: > Thank Georgi Naplatanov and all those who reply! > > The Chinese firewall is sophisticated > and I have not been able to download > http://openvpn.net/howto.html > sent in attachment by kind users. I can encrypt the file and send it to you. I w

Re: wired network connection has stopped working

2015-08-22 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Friday 21 August 2015 22:07:27 tom arnall wrote: > Greetings! > > About a year ago my wired modem connection stopped working. I can find > nothing on google which helps. > > In dmesg there is: > > eth0: link is not ready > > Here is ifconfig output, in case it is useful for people trying to

Re: Changing the terminal character set

2015-07-18 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:52:33 Alex Naysmith wrote: > I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 > character set. > > How can I change the character encoding in the XFCE terminal [v0.4.8] from > UTF-8 to CP437 or IBM437? > > Alternatively, I did attempt to change the

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

2015-06-25 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 24 June 2015 18:51:24 Jose Martinez wrote: > NaCL -- Sodium Chloride -- common table salt. That just means you have > to add your own!!:-D Actually, it stands for Native Client (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client). It is Google's attempt to re-invent javascript :-)

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-19 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Friday 19 June 2015 11:01:25 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 09:13:42AM +0200, Frederic Marchal wrote: > > On Friday 19 June 2015 09:24:34 Reco wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:20:25 -0500 > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Mike

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-19 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Friday 19 June 2015 09:24:34 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:20:25 -0500 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > Mike McClain wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:22:37PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> Scarletdown wrote: > > >>> How about a portable wireless hotspot device and ser

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-13 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Saturday 13 June 2015 22:52:22 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Brian wrote: > > You don't mean that, do you? After all, you do use > > its functionality for booting. :) > > Thanks for that. You may be right. > > BUT...hrrrmmm...just to show that I can be as > reasonable as the next

Re: udev rule for my usb stick

2015-06-11 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 18:39:11 Michael Soulier wrote: > On 2015-06-09 4:22 PM, deloptes wrote: > > ls -a /dev/disk/by-id/ or uuid is an option if you want predictable name, > > no? > > I suppose, but I'd like to know why working through udev isn't working. Not every subsystem works. You use

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Friday 01 May 2015 08:28:26 Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: > Hi folks! > I would like to use Qt 5.4 for its QOpenGLWidget. However, > Qt 5.4 is still stuck in experimental. Being a user I now seem to have > several options: > > 2.) Grant root privileges to > ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-1.6.0-8-online

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything > > > > is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. > > > > I would like to lock

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-04-11 Thread Frederic Marchal
Sorry for the very very late answer. That mail showed up as a new mail in my mail client! Frederic On Saturday 11 April 2015 11:19:02 Frederic Marchal wrote: > On Tuesday 03 March 2015 20:29:53 Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have an issue with a (client'

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

2015-04-11 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Tuesday 03 March 2015 20:29:53 Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an issue with a (client's) large (13T) filesystem, that fills > up every now and then and nobody's quite sure what's doing it. > > I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. df > only gives the tota

Re: Machine hangs at boot

2014-12-15 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Monday 15 December 2014 16:14:09 German wrote: > SDB is ext4. It is just a disk I use for data. Under normal circumstances, > when system operating normally it isn't mounted for some reason and it gets > mounted when I just click on it in LXDE. I guess that's why it's not > initialized LXDE can

Re: Machine hangs at boot

2014-12-15 Thread Frederic Marchal
evidences that any other peripheral is behaving strangely. Frederic > Frederic Marchal wrote: > >On Monday 15 December 2014 15:40:23 German wrote: > >> Do you refer to SDB as 500GB disk? > > > >It looks so: > > > >[2.128658] scsi 1:0:0:0: Dire

Re: Machine hangs at boot

2014-12-15 Thread Frederic Marchal
ric > Frederic Marchal wrote: > >On Monday 15 December 2014 14:37:10 German wrote: > >> My machine hangs at boot, so i'd like someone to take a look at my log. > >> Thanks > >> > >> http://pastebin.com/3crkJgnE > > > >Let's

Re: Machine hangs at boot

2014-12-15 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Monday 15 December 2014 14:37:10 German wrote: > My machine hangs at boot, so i'd like someone to take a look at my log. > Thanks > > http://pastebin.com/3crkJgnE Let's try another wild guess. sdb looks corrupted or not initialized [2.147780] sdb: unknown partition table Can you unplug