Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
On Wednesday 02 of January 2013 05:25:19 Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 11:41 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Looking into it a bit more, I can't find a place where the C99 standard > > requires *any* warnings. In particular: > > > > Annex I > >

Re: Debian install including non free

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Oliver Fairhall wrote: > I would like to include non free firmware/software/docs in my > initial Debian installation. I have read some information online, > though am still not sure of a few things. Must it be in the initial installation? Note that there are some systems that presently must inclu

Re: understanding the role/relationship of the firmware and driver in case of Wi-Fi adapters

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin T wrote: > some Wi-Fi adapters(for example Intel ipw2200 family and many Ralink > cards) require both firmware and drivers in order to operate properly. Yes. > 1) As I understand, firmware is usually a closed-source binary image > provided by Wi-Fi card manufacturer? Yes. And because of

understanding the role/relationship of the firmware and driver in case of Wi-Fi adapters

2013-01-01 Thread Martin T
Hello, some Wi-Fi adapters(for example Intel ipw2200 family and many Ralink cards) require both firmware and drivers in order to operate properly. 1) As I understand, firmware is usually a closed-source binary image provided by Wi-Fi card manufacturer? 2) What happens with the firmware when card

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 11:41 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Looking into it a bit more, I can't find a place where the C99 standard > requires *any* warnings. In particular: > > Annex I > (informative) >

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Jari Fredriksson
01.01.2013 22:11, Zbigniew Komarnicki kirjoitti: > I was very surprised when I discover that this code was compiled > without any warning. I thought if a variable is 'unsigned int' > then this is not allowed to assign negative value. > That's all. Indeed that is all. C and C++ are light weight

Re: RSA Key authentication

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Thore wrote: > > > Another question is: How must I configure it that I only can login > > > with the user password my passphrase for the key and the keys? > > > so tripple protection against brute force. > > > > I recommend not to do this. Make sure y

Re: Running vlc from another machine.

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Davies wrote: > peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > At the console, > > peter@dalton:~$ vlc *.WAV > > starts a vlc instance and produces audio. > > The same command via a telnet connection is not so successful. > > Don't run telnet, use ssh instead. Agreed. > Ssh is usually (almost always, by def

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Marc Auslander
Zbigniew Komarnicki writes: > > I wanted to prohibit user to assign negative value to a variable. > This variable is later passed to a recurrence function as > argument and of course I got segmentation fault, because > the function is called 4294967291 times. > You MUST check the input. Consi

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 01 Jan 14:14 -0600, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: > On Tuesday 01 of January 2013 08:23:05 you wrote: > > C lessons today? (There are newsgroups for C and C++ questions, but, why > > not?) > > Yes :-) > > I wanted to prohibit user to assign negative value to a variable. > This variable i

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
On Tuesday 01 of January 2013 08:23:05 you wrote: > C lessons today? (There are newsgroups for C and C++ questions, but, why not?) Yes :-) I wanted to prohibit user to assign negative value to a variable. This variable is later passed to a recurrence function as argument and of course I got seg

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jerry Stuckle writes: > On 12/31/2012 7:30 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Jari Fredriksson writes: >>> This is a known bug in Debian GNU/Linux. Happy new year ;) >> >> Where does the standard require a warning in this case? If no warning >> is required, the behavior is not a bug. >> >> > > I d

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"Mark Allums" writes: >> Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is >> initializing by negative value? There no any warning. >> Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted >> to unsigned but probably this should by printed a warning, >> when this is a constant value. What do you

Re: Debian install including non free

2013-01-01 Thread Oliver Fairhall
Hi, On 29/12/12 21:42, Zenaan Harkness wrote: check out debmirror package also try: apt-cache search debian | egrep mirror Thanks so much for your response. I will look into it, and see what I can do. Cheers, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: lightdm login screen minor issue

2013-01-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello cr...@gtek.biz, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > ii lightdm 1.2.2-4i386 simple display manager > ii lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.1.6-2i386 simple display manager > (GTK+ greeter) > ii upower 0.9.17-1 i386 abstraction for power

Re: amavis-clamav fails

2013-01-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27/12/12 14:32, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > Running postfix/amavis/clamav on my mail server; of late (last week or > two) I'm seeing error messages in syslog: > > Dec 27 13:52:43 vanderhoff amavis[18681]: (18681-03) ESMTP::10024 > /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20121227T130337-18681: > ->

Re: lightdm login screen minor issue

2013-01-01 Thread craig
On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 05:39, "Claudius Hubig" said: > Hello cr...@gtek.biz, > > what a wonderful name :) > > cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> At the login screen, there are two buttons in the top right-hand corner, >> one for switching hi-contrast and large fonts on or off, and the other >> for

Fwd: Re (2): Running vlc from another machine.

2013-01-01 Thread Brad Alexander
Forwarding back to the list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:54 PM Subject: Re (2): Running vlc from another machine. To: stor...@gmail.com Cc: peasth...@shaw.ca From: Brad Alexander Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:14:01 -0500 > Telnet? Aside from

Fwd: Re (2): Running vlc from another machine.

2013-01-01 Thread Brad Alexander
Forwarding back to list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:50 PM Subject: Re (2): Running vlc from another machine. To: stor...@gmail.com Cc: peasth...@shaw.ca From: Chris Davies Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:11:14 + > I'm going to assume (dang

Re: lightdm login screen minor issue

2013-01-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello cr...@gtek.biz, what a wonderful name :) cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > At the login screen, there are two buttons in the top right-hand corner, > one for switching hi-contrast and large fonts on or off, and the other > for restarting or shutting the system down. That power "button" has no > funct

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Allums
> Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is > initializing by negative value? There no any warning. > Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted > to unsigned but probably this should by printed a warning, > when this is a constant value. What do you think about this? > > > //

RE: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Allums
> Joe Pfeiffer > Jari Fredriksson writes: > > > 31.12.2012 20:33, Zbigniew Komarnicki kirjoitti: > >> Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is > >> initializing by negative value? There no any warning. > >> Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted > >> to unsigned but probab

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Zbigniew Komarnicki: > Is this OK or is this a bug, when the wariable 'n' is > initializing by negative value? There no any warning. > Is this normal? I know that value -5 is converted > to unsigned but probably this should by printed a warning, > when this is a constant value. What do you think

Re: RSA Key authentication

2013-01-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 31 dec 12, 12:58:05, Bob Proulx wrote: > Thore wrote: > > > Another question is: How must I configure it that I only can login > > with the user password my passphrase for the key and the keys? > > so tripple protection against brute force. > > I recommend not to do this. Make sure you ha

Re: No suitable module for running kernel found : virtualbox-ose

2013-01-01 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2013-01-01 08:39, Contact. Vardhan skrev: i am using debian 6.0.6. please look into the data& provide me a possible solution : [1] installation of virtualbox-ose : # aptitude install virtualbox-ose > [...] Setting up virtualbox-ose (3.2.10-dfsg-1) ... Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules. Sta