Another security fix to openssh-server/ssh

2008-05-17 Thread Adrian Levi
Is anyone able to shed some light on what was fixed this time round? Are our newly generated keys safe? I am unable to dig up any info on these new packages. http://packages.debian.org is timing out for me. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally

nfs and iptables

2008-05-17 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, How can I allow nfs through my iptables firewall? What ports does it use? Are they static ports? And if not how can I make them static? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X server not starting

2008-05-17 Thread John Talbut
When my computer first boots up I have been getting a May 17 11:44:03 login[1669]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on 'tty1' FOR `UNKNOWN', User not known to the underlying authentication module error the last couple of days. If I reboot it starts up OK. I am using Lenny and I have updated it most days r

blogging - alternative packages

2008-05-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress. WordPress rapidly is increasing in complexity because features are being added. The procedure for backing up and restoring the MySQL data base is complex. And with

Is our video support going backwards?

2008-05-17 Thread Alan Chandler
I have an ipod nano, and some months ago I was able to use ffmpeg to convert video to mp4 with an aac audio stream. I can still do it on my Etch system, but with my unstable system, I can't find the necessary libfaac library to make it work Having made my mp4 video (on the Etch system), I try

Re: Using 2.6.25 + Nvidia + VMware

2008-05-17 Thread David Witbrodt
> Dave, thanks for pointing out the v86d error in the wiki. > But AFAIK in Debian kernels vesafb has always been compiled into the > kernel, not as a module, making its inclusion in the initrd unnecessary. That's what I thought, as well. When I checked the 'initrd.img-' file, it wasn't there

Re: I vs l

2008-05-17 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen writes: > As I don't have a MTA installed for bugreport... None is required. man reportbug -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

reportbug (was Re: I vs l (Was: Tab in Java))

2008-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 19:41, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/18 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > > As I don't have a MTA installed for bugreport, I filed at Ubuntu: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/231508 It's been years since reportbug needed a l

Re: I vs l (Was: Tab in Java)

2008-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/18 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Actually I'm using text-only email on Gmail, but I do have a >> variable-width font in use. Your point is well taken, and I will now >> be on the lookout for a new default font that makes a better >> distinction. Thanks! > > And, of course, all GUI apps

Re: I vs l (Was: Tab in Java)

2008-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 18:41, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/18 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I did try with the lowercase version of the key between "k" and ";". >>> But one can never be too sure. Just in case there are those who don't >>> know, in most font

I vs l (Was: Tab in Java)

2008-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/18 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I did try with the lowercase version of the key between "k" and ";". >> But one can never be too sure. Just in case there are those who don't >> know, in most fonts the uppercase eye glyph is one pixel shorter than >> the lowercase el glyph, which is th

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 17:40, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/18 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: One simple minded suggestion: try CTRL-I. That emits a tab character in many contexts. But given the above, it probably won't work either. >>> Thanks. I

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/18 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> One simple minded suggestion: try CTRL-I. That emits a tab character in many >>> contexts. But given the above, it probably won't work either. >> >> Thanks. I tried Ctrl-l, but it did not work. Neither did any other >> Ctrl-char for that matter. But go

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 16:31, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/18 Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] >> >> One simple minded suggestion: try CTRL-I. That emits a tab character in many >> contexts. But given the above, it probably won't work either. > > Th

Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

2008-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 16:47, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:25:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/17/08 13:00, Thomas H. George wrote: Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little Gimp picture flashe

strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-05-17 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I have a pdf file here which - Displays perfectly with kpdf - Does not print from kpdf. This is because gs fails with this file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ gs DKB.pdf GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29) Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO

Re: Python error

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:41:12 -0700, Seshadri T N wrote: > This is the error that I get on my lenny machine when updating. I have both > python 2.4 and 2.5 currently installed. It would be greatly appreciated if > someone could give me pointers on rectifying this error. > > > > Setting up py

reporting kernel crashes

2008-05-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I seem to be getting these crashes in my syslog, started happening around 2.6.24 eth0: too many iterations (16) in nv_nic_irq. swapper: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: PF 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 Call Trace: [] __alloc_pages+0x2f0/0x309 [] kmem_ge

Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

2008-05-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:25:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/17/08 13:00, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little > > Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/18 Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 17 May 2008 14:56:23 Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Even in Windows there is no ability to tab between the text fields in >> this particular Java applet. Or in all Java applets, for all I know. >> Actually, that is my question. Does Java use a

Re: Realtek ALC662 microphone on Etch?

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 23:14:59 +0200, Kum Gabor wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2008 21:45, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 17:20:23 +0200, Kum Gabor wrote: > > > On Monday 12 May 2008 20:55, Maciej Rutecki wrote: > > > > Did You try model=3stack-dig option or similar? E.g.: > > > > >

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 17 May 2008 14:56:23 Dotan Cohen wrote: > Even in Windows there is no ability to tab between the text fields in > this particular Java applet. Or in all Java applets, for all I know. > Actually, that is my question. Does Java use a different method of > keyboarding between fields? Well

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/17 Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 17 May 2008 13:16:06 Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Regardless of the mentality of my university, is there a client-side >> fix for this technical problem? > > Here is an all else fails method: use the Java applet under Windows XP in a > virtua

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread John Hasler
Wesley J. Landaker writes: > Here is an all else fails method: use the Java applet under Windows XP in > a virtual machine, such as VirtualBox. > This is horrible in a software freedom (and annoying hassle) perspective, > but will almost certainly get the job done. It would also require that he a

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 17 May 2008 13:16:06 Dotan Cohen wrote: > Regardless of the mentality of my university, is there a client-side > fix for this technical problem? Here is an all else fails method: use the Java applet under Windows XP in a virtual machine, such as VirtualBox. This is horrible in a soft

Re: printing setup

2008-05-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080517 13:49]: > tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one >> thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose >> the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 17 May 2008 08:23:41 -0700 Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat May 17 2008 02:32:29 Rico Secada wrote: > > I am not saying that Debian isn't secure per say, but things like > > removing SUID and SGID from files where they generally aren't > > needed as default imho is better. If

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/17 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Somewhere in your Uni is a Dean who's job it is to see that no one's > rights are violated. If that Dean refuses to help, there are rights > activists galore, and, finally, letters to the editor of the school > newspaper. No "progressive" Uni likes to

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 13:51, Dotan Cohen wrote: > My university's math department put up terrible little inaccesable > Java applets for homework. In particular, the tab key does not move > between text input fields. Is this a known issue with Java, I see the sa

Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
My university's math department put up terrible little inaccesable Java applets for homework. In particular, the tab key does not move between text input fields. Is this a known issue with Java, or does Java use some key combination other than tab to move between fields? I am a heavy keyboard user

Re: printing setup

2008-05-17 Thread tyler
tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one > thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose > the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this is a > CUPS issue, a printer issue, a driver issue

Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 17 May 2008 11:00:54 am Thomas H. George wrote: > Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little > Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load aborts. I > can find no clue in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log so I have used > dpkg --purge t

Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

2008-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 13:00, Thomas H. George wrote: > Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little > Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load aborts. I > can find no clue in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log s

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat May 17 2008 10:59:41 Digby Tarvin wrote: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s-auth- >pam say > "Now edit /etc/pam.d/passwd and change the first line. You should add > the option "md5" to use MD5 passwords, change the minimum length of > password from 4

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-05-17 Thread Alexey Seisdedo
Thanks a lot Debian´s team for exist I use Debian GNU/Linux on my job workstation and job laptop and it is immersed in all my projects: * statistical analysis, * web development, * scientific projects, * design 2D tasks and others. *r-cran and libraries, python and libraries, qcad,

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:06:05AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat May 17 2008 09:34:21 Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2008-05-17 17:35 +0200, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > One thing that I find rather hard to justify is that even on an Etch > > > system installed from scratch just a few weeks ago, > > >

printing setup

2008-05-17 Thread tyler
Hi, I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this is a CUPS issue, a printer issue, a driver issue? I looked around the CUPS webpage, an

Something stopping Gimp loading

2008-05-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load aborts. I can find no clue in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log so I have used dpkg --purge to remove a number of programs to no avail. I have done a number

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 16 May 2008 07:39:27 pm lostson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:09 -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: > > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:02:59 pm Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: > > > > My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice > > > > > > You mean like

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 17 May 2008 01:40:05 am Rico Secada wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2008 06:42:57 +0530 > > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rico Secada wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > > > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system

realpath in PS1 bash

2008-05-17 Thread Peter Kuma
Hi folks I'm wondering if it'd be a good idea to have PS1 set to '${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:$(realpath "$(pwd)")\$ ' instead of the default '${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' and make it a suggestion in /etc/skel/.bashrc for those users who want

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Misko
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 08:54:27PM -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: > > > > > > My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice > > > > > > > > You mean like Windows has? How about not. Here's why: > > > > http://samspade.org/d/firewalls.html > > > > > > The nature and purpose of a "firewall" seems to b

php5.0-mysql for Lenny?

2008-05-17 Thread Mike Ely
Doesn't seem to be any such package. Since libapache-mod-php5 is now deprecated in favor of libapacha-mod-php5.0, it'd be helpful to have a matching mysql module... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat May 17 2008 09:34:21 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-05-17 17:35 +0200, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > One thing that I find rather hard to justify is that even on an Etch > > system installed from scratch just a few weeks ago, > > /etc/pam.d/common-password has password required pam_unix.so null

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-17 Thread vvokong
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" does not work, when i install lenny today. . This command only askes question for keyboard, and nothing for video card. Finally, I got a xorg.conf with empty sections for video card, as following: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard"

Re: sandisk mp3 player mount

2008-05-17 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 17 May 2008 09:16:15 -0700 Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat May 17 2008 08:21:53 am seeds wrote: > > how can i mount a sandisk mp3 player in debian lenny? > > A friend of mine bought an mp3 player (some generic brand) that > didn't automount for unknown reasons. I mounted i

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-05-17 17:35 +0200, Digby Tarvin wrote: > One thing that I find rather hard to justify is that even on an Etch system > installed from scratch just a few weeks ago, /etc/pam.d/common-password has > password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 > so I can be confidently

Re: sandisk mp3 player mount

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM, seeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can i mount a sandisk mp3 player in debian lenny? I don't know what version of usbmount is in lenny, but the version in sid doesn't recognize vfat filesystems. You can change that by modifying the "FILESYSTEMS" variable in /

Re: sandisk mp3 player mount

2008-05-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat May 17 2008 08:21:53 am seeds wrote: > how can i mount a sandisk mp3 player in debian lenny? A friend of mine bought an mp3 player (some generic brand) that didn't automount for unknown reasons. I mounted it manually but adding an entry in /etc/fstab like below and it mounts fine that way

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

2008-05-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
michael wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:45 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: michael wrote: eg: The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/v

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 06:42:57AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: > >Hi. > > > >Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > >Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully > >secured out-of-the-box. > > Please elaborate on what you consider to

sandisk mp3 player mount

2008-05-17 Thread seeds
how can i mount a sandisk mp3 player in debian lenny? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/16 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I agree that not visiting youtube is generally good advice, independent > of its deleterious effects on FF, but on those occasions that one does > visit it, one can view the site using the browser without flash, and > download videos with youtube-dl or clive

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat May 17 2008 02:32:29 Rico Secada wrote: > I am not saying that Debian isn't secure per say, but things like > removing SUID and SGID from files where they generally aren't needed as > default imho is better. If someone needs SUID then he has to set it. > > Locating what files that it is gene

Re: Nokia D211 cardphone driver compiling on Etch

2008-05-17 Thread Kum Gabor
On Saturday 17 May 2008 16:41, steve wrote: > Kum Gabor wrote: > | Hello All! > | > | I have a problem with compiling the Nokia D211 cardphone driver on Etch. > | I downloaded driver from here: http://d211.sourceforge.net/ > | And do everythin how written here: http://tuxmobil.org/nokia_d211.html >

Re: usb dial up modem?

2008-05-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: Any one using USR5633b USB dialup exyernal modem with Linux? I am looking for one that will work under Linux as the new computer does not have serial ports! Do these modem need a special driver? This: http://www.usr.com/support/product-template.asp?prod=5633b says that

Re: Nokia D211 cardphone driver compiling on Etch

2008-05-17 Thread Kum Gabor
On Saturday 17 May 2008 16:41, steve wrote: > Kum Gabor wrote: > | Hello All! > | > | I have a problem with compiling the Nokia D211 cardphone driver on Etch. > | I downloaded driver from here: http://d211.sourceforge.net/ > | And do everythin how written here: http://tuxmobil.org/nokia_d211.html >

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-17 Thread andy
joseph lockhart wrote: */"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: On 05/14/2008 08:57 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi list, > Hi Javier. > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes [unresponsive] during > three or four seconds. > > First I experi

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 03:51, Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 19:47:10 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. Why is Debian

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

2008-05-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:21:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > Fantastic! Installing ia32-libs did the trick! > Now if only I could work out how to make some folders on my amd64 Debian > system appear on the WinXP virtual machine (without dragging them)! One way would be setting up Samba. -- Carl Fi

Automounting

2008-05-17 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Running Sid/Lenny and I don't use Gnome, so I am looking for the BEST automounting system, one that will mount a CD or DVD when I insert the disk. I have tried pmount but for some reason it doesn't work for me. Suggestions anyone ? Thanks - --

Re: Nokia D211 cardphone driver compiling on Etch

2008-05-17 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kum Gabor wrote: | Hello All! | | I have a problem with compiling the Nokia D211 cardphone driver on Etch. | I downloaded driver from here: http://d211.sourceforge.net/ | And do everythin how written here: http://tuxmobil.org/nokia_d211.html | | But h

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-17 Thread joseph lockhart
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/14/2008 08:57 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi list, > Hi Javier. > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes [unresponsive] during > three or four seconds. > > First I experiment it with swiftfox, then I used Firefox (iceweasel) 2 and

Nokia D211 cardphone driver compiling on Etch

2008-05-17 Thread Kum Gabor
Hello All! I have a problem with compiling the Nokia D211 cardphone driver on Etch. I downloaded driver from here: http://d211.sourceforge.net/ And do everythin how written here: http://tuxmobil.org/nokia_d211.html But happens this: # make all set -e; for d in src ui control; do make -C $d ; done

Re: no sound on Toshiba Tecra T9100

2008-05-17 Thread Jaime Tarrant
Jamie Griffin wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:44:10PM +0200, Till Wimmer wrote: Hello all i installed Debian Lenny on a Toshiba T9100 laptop. Everything works fine except of the sound. All the alsa modules are loaded, the gnome volume panel is available etc. No error messages "device busy" o

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/08 03:51, Rico Secada wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2008 19:47:10 -0500 > "Christofer C. Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> Why is Debian not setup to be sec

Re: Using 2.6.25 + Nvidia + VMware

2008-05-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Witbrodt wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In upgrading to 2.6.25 I ran into problems, as follows: 1. When I use linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 or 2-686 from binary or from source I cannot use vga=791 or I get "undefined video mode number: 317". When I compile from kernel.org's 2.6.25.3 I do

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

2008-05-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:32:58PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 2008-05-16 15:34, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >> E: Couldn't find a changelog for vim/si

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

2008-05-17 Thread michael
On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:45 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > michael wrote: > > eg: > > The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed > > successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at > > any > > time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bi

Re: no flash in opera after upgrade

2008-05-17 Thread Angus Auld
--- Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008 23:03:51 +0200 > Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Today I preferenced etch-backports and did a huge > upgrade, so far all > > fine but one thing: Opera 9.27 won't play flash > anymore. > > Iceweasel does, so th eplugin se

Re: 5.1 surround sound with NVidia4

2008-05-17 Thread chmick
Hello Ian I have a similar sound chip on a GAK8N gygabite motherboard . With my previous debian (etch) I succeeded to make it work with 5 speakers. In gnome start the volume control manager , then go to file --> change device --> select ck804 then go in open the volume control preference (edit

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-05-17 11:32 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > I am not saying that Debian isn't secure per say, but things like > removing SUID and SGID from files where they generally aren't needed as > default imho is better. If someone needs SUID then he has to set it. That is already mandated by Debian pol

Re: usb dial up modem?

2008-05-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 08:45:49PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > Any one using USR5633b USB dialup exyernal modem with Linux? > I am looking for one that will work under Linux > as the new computer does not have serial ports! > > Do these modem need a special driver? > -ishwar >From what I'd ski

Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-17 Thread andy
Nicolas George wrote: Le septidi 27 floréal, an CCXVI, Raj Kiran Grandhi a écrit : I am not so sure of vlc and others. Be aware, however, that the software based rendering and scaling are significantly slower and highly cpu intensive. With recent computers, that is not an issue except

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Magnus Therning
Rico Secada wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2008 06:42:57 +0530 > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rico Secada wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? >>> >>> Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully >>> secured out-of-the-box. >

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 17 May 2008 06:42:57 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully > > secured out-of-the-box. > > Please elaborate on

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 16 May 2008 19:47:10 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 17 May 2008 06:42:57 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully > > secured out-of-the-box. > > Please elaborate on

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 16 May 2008 19:47:10 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully

Re: missing log messages

2008-05-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:37:22PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2008-05-16 15:09, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2008-05-16 14:48 +0200, Bill wrote: > > > >> I'm tweaking a new kernel for my old laptop to install a new module. > >> > >> At