Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/24/13, Luther Blissett wrote: > On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 00:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:56 -0400, Doug wrote: >> > On 08/23/2013 04:24 PM, Luther Blissett wrote: >> > /snip/ >> > > So I did a long search around, since I had absolutely no idea where I >> > > was gett

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2013-08-23 Thread o...@wmech3.webd.pl
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Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:57:18PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Yes please! BUT: probably sanitize (obfuscate) your public, and > isp-provided, ip addresses, if there is any likelihood of the > existence of your particular VPN being of interest to an adversary. Of course. I'll probably do that

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:48:26PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Bob, your link http://shorewall.net/ProxyARP.htm is > great! Easy to read. Yes, I meant to mention that. It does a good job of providing a general explanation of proxy ARP indeed. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg pub

Re: OT: Web Audio Player Recommendations?

2013-08-23 Thread The_Ace
Recommend using the JW Player. It supports playlists and you can easily populate it with a php script. www.longtailvideo.com/jw-player/ Dont know much about html5 but what I did find out is that it doesnt support playlists. That was what made me look at other options and finally settled with jw pl

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:44:28PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Whether or not using proxy arp, I recommend using tap device. I > believe there is a little more overhead with tun (higher in the > stack), _especially_ given you want to forward everything, ie DNAT and > SNAT. tun buys nothing but

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/24/13, Gregory Nowak wrote: > As I already said, everything is working. The problem is solved. If > there is interest, I can paste the openvpn configs from server/client, > and the interfaces file with relevant iptables rules from the server > to show how I'm doing what I'm doing. Thanks agai

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/24/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/24/13, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Right. Which does not have anything to do with the way proxy arp is >> set up. >> >>> I thought this over again with my brain fresher in the afternoon than >>> it was last night, and you are right, it would work in this situat

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/24/13, Bob Proulx wrote: > Gregory Nowak wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > The device will still have an ethernet address whether you assigned >> > one to it or not. It is not necessary for you to assign one since one >> > has already been assigned by default. (From the vendor. Or in the >>

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/23/2013 10:04 PM, John Hasler wrote: It is *probably* legal in the USA for Debian to distribute it. However, no one wants to find out the hard way that I am wrong about that, and in any case it's easy to get it elsewhere. Actually, probably NOT legal to distribute in the U.S., according

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread John Hasler
> It is *probably* legal in the USA for Debian to distribute it. However, > no one wants to find out the hard way that I am wrong about that, and in > any case it's easy to get it elsewhere. > > Actually, probably NOT legal to distribute in the U.S., according to the > DMCA. See > http://en.wik

Re: What if I choose install text-based mode than X?

2013-08-23 Thread guojzzz
在 2013年8月24日星期六UTC+8上午8时40分01秒,LOwens写道: > -Original Message- > > From: robo...@news.nic.it [mailto:robo...@news.nic.it] On Behalf Of ?? > > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:41 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: What if I choose install text-based mode than X? >

RE: What if I choose install text-based mode than X?

2013-08-23 Thread LOwens
-Original Message- From: robo...@news.nic.it [mailto:robo...@news.nic.it] On Behalf Of ?? Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What if I choose install text-based mode than X? 在 2013年8月22日星期四UTC+8上午2时30分02秒,Joe写道: >> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 0

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/23/2013 5:36 PM, John Hasler wrote: Dom writes: I thought the reason that libdvdcss(2) wasn't included in the Debian repos isn't because of any issues with the licensing, but because it may potentially be illegal to use in some areas due to the fact the it cracks copyright protection on med

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 04:54:46PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Uhm... Yes. > > > # ifconfig tun0 > > tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr > > 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > > Silly bear! That is the tun device. Never tunnel the tun device. > > > The above is from the VPS, with

Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Luther Blissett
On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 00:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:56 -0400, Doug wrote: > > On 08/23/2013 04:24 PM, Luther Blissett wrote: > > /snip/ > > > So I did a long search around, since I had absolutely no idea where I > > > was getting into. Back then I used to think that w

Re: VMware workstation 9 and Sid

2013-08-23 Thread Erik Dahlinghaus
I am having the same problem. According to this thread [1] the issue could be with libgtkmm. I have not tried downgrading yet. I have found a temporary work-around for the issue. If VMware Workstation is opened as root it will remain open. But you will be without your settings. You will have to m

OT: Web Audio Player Recommendations?

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
I have a need to set up an audio player on a web page. To play mp2 (from twolame) and wav files. It isn't that there isn't much written about this topic. The problem is that there is so very much written about it that it is hard to sort through all of the possibilities. Frankly I am overwhelmed

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Nowak wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The device will still have an ethernet address whether you assigned > > one to it or not. It is not necessary for you to assign one since one > > has already been assigned by default. (From the vendor. Or in the > > case of virtual hardware from the s

Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 16:47 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Doug wrote: > > Luther Blissett wrote: > > > help I found in this community. Oh, and the shell... what a shinny > > > little thing, full of secrets. > > > > I'm confused. I only know "shinny" as a verb: to shinny up a pole, or a > > tree, etc.

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 15:30 -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 08:07:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 18:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > What baffles me, is why you are reading and posting on this list if > > > you disapprove of Debian's politics. > >

Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Doug wrote: > Luther Blissett wrote: > > help I found in this community. Oh, and the shell... what a shinny > > little thing, full of secrets. > > I'm confused. I only know "shinny" as a verb: to shinny up a pole, or a > tree, etc. To climb, as a kid would. Here he uses it as a noun and an > adjec

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Robert Holtzm
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 08:07:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 18:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > What baffles me, is why you are reading and posting on this list if > > you disapprove of Debian's politics. > > Perhaps you killfiled me?! If not, here's my explanation. I'm an

Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:56 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 08/23/2013 04:24 PM, Luther Blissett wrote: > /snip/ > > So I did a long search around, since I had absolutely no idea where I > > was getting into. Back then I used to think that what was getting in the > > way of free software were usability and

WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/username/.cache/keyring-XXXXXX/pkcs11: No such file or directory

2013-08-23 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have a Debian 7.1 amd64 box running XFCE. When I invoke mplayer to convert a WMA file to a WAV file: $ mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm -really-quiet -nolirc foo.wma I see: WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/dpchrist/.cache/keyr

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:16:12AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > The device will still have an ethernet address whether you assigned > one to it or not. It is not necessary for you to assign one since one > has already been assigned by default. (From the vendor. Or in the > case of virtual hardware

Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Doug
On 08/23/2013 04:24 PM, Luther Blissett wrote: /snip/ > So I did a long search around, since I had absolutely no idea where I > was getting into. Back then I used to think that what was getting in the > way of free software were usability and shinny. /snip/ > Funny I never *really* tried other dis

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 16:36 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Dom writes: > > I thought the reason that libdvdcss(2) wasn't included in the Debian > > repos isn't because of any issues with the licensing, but because it > > may potentially be illegal to use in some areas due to the fact the it > > cracks

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:36:58PM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > I have been following this and I think it is getting clear what you are doing > but I have lost what the problem is we are trying to resolve. > > If I understand it right your setup is something like: > > VPS has network 1.2.3.0/24

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread John Hasler
Dom writes: > I thought the reason that libdvdcss(2) wasn't included in the Debian > repos isn't because of any issues with the licensing, but because it > may potentially be illegal to use in some areas due to the fact the it > cracks copyright protection on media. It is *probably* legal in the U

Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Luther Blissett
Since everyone is giving away their bits os appreciation, I felt like giving mine. My first ever GNU/Linux distro was some old Red Hat, which I couldn't handle well and was dropped in favor of Suse. Once again I had trouble with network hardware and was forced to dive in the command line with almo

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Dom
On 23/08/13 18:46, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 23 August 2013 02:04:01 Doug wrote: My complaint is with Debian's politics: if it's not FOSS, you can't have it. I have non-FLOSS applications on my Debian computer. I also used an unofficial installer that had non-free drivers in. It was readil

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:46:17 +0100 Lisi Reisz napísal: > On Friday 23 August 2013 02:04:01 Doug wrote: > > My complaint is with Debian's politics: if it's not FOSS, you can't > > have it. > > I have non-FLOSS applications on my Debian computer. I also used an > unofficial installer that

Re: wireless problem

2013-08-23 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:40:02 +0200 Bob Proulx wrote: > I usually purge network-manager and install > wicd. I think in your previous case wicd didn't start and couldn't > run because network-manager was still running and had the interfaces > busy. Yes thanks for this explanation. I found that by

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 18:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > What baffles me, is why you are reading and posting on this list if > you disapprove of Debian's politics. Perhaps you killfiled me?! If not, here's my explanation. I'm an Arch Linux user, but still take care about Debian users and the Ubuntu

Re: deb-multimedia repository

2013-08-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 August 2013 02:04:01 Doug wrote: > My complaint is with Debian's politics: if it's not FOSS, you can't have > it. I have non-FLOSS applications on my Debian computer. I also used an unofficial installer that had non-free drivers in. It was readily available, and I learnt about it

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 13:14 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > It's only been about 46 years since I wrote my first program, > using flowcharts and punched cards. Hahaha, you old "bastard". I guess I'm a younker compared to you :p. My fist software was programmed using 65xx Assembler, so you likely wa

Re: Reporting a bug in gscan2pdf

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
anthony wrote: > I would like to report what I believe is a bug in gscan2pdf but I am > using Fedora Linux, so I cannot use reportbug. > > Could you please advise on how to proceed? I would email one of the Fedora user group mailing lists. They will be the ones who will help you report bugs in F

Re: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Nowak wrote: > In addition to this, I have iptables rules using the nat table, > which take traffic which has the laptop's public address as > destination, and do DNAT on it, changing the destination address to > be the laptop's private address. I also have a rule doing the > reverse. This

Reporting a bug in gscan2pdf

2013-08-23 Thread anthony
Hello I would like to report what I believe is a bug in gscan2pdf but I am using Fedora Linux, so I cannot use reportbug. Could you please advise on how to proceed? Thanks Tony Moran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/23/2013 12:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: :) You'll still find "DR DOS" on my Atari ST's ~ 42 MiB HDD ;). My Atari has got an 80286 hardware emulator. I won't call this "the dark side", but a sign of the times ;). I have the impression that you are a dino, as I'm ;). We are the losers :D! Not b

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
:) You'll still find "DR DOS" on my Atari ST's ~ 42 MiB HDD ;). My Atari has got an 80286 hardware emulator. I won't call this "the dark side", but a sign of the times ;). I have the impression that you are a dino, as I'm ;). We are the losers :D! Not born to late, but born to early ;). Your disa

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/23/2013 11:50 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: _Unfortunately_ in real live, when we need to earn an honest penny, Linux is 99,% of all user cases completely unusable excepted of servers. The people who now will mention that this isn't true, claim that they made a living with usin

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
_Unfortunately_ in real live, when we need to earn an honest penny, Linux is 99,% of all user cases completely unusable excepted of servers. The people who now will mention that this isn't true, claim that they made a living with using Linux only, are likely people with a resear

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/23/2013 10:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 12:02 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I tried it with dkms installed also, with no change. Hi Jerry, today I read the whole thread. The common way to build modules for a kernel is to use dkms and I experienced it as always working f

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 12:02 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > I tried it with dkms installed also, with no change. Hi Jerry, today I read the whole thread. The common way to build modules for a kernel is to use dkms and I experienced it as always working for me. How did you run dkms and what output d

Re: Missing Makefile

2013-08-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 8/23/2013 12:36 AM, Kailash wrote: On Thursday 22 August 2013 09:32 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 8/22/2013 1:50 AM, Kailash wrote: On Monday 05 August 2013 08:10 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 8/4/2013 5:22 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 22:11:16 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 8/3/2

RE: openvpn question

2013-08-23 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Gregory, > Gregory Nowak wrote: >>> The public address assigned to the laptop would actually be >>> configured on the VPS, >> >> Hmm... No. Sorry. Doesn't make sense. The public address assigned >> to the laptop would probably be yet another private address behind a >> NAT somewhere. >

Re: Rasbian problem at update

2013-08-23 Thread basti
Try the following http://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-ubuntu-update-errors/2011/12/16 http://askubuntu.com/questions/262742/apt-get-update-errors-cant-read-the-package-lists http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=34165&p=294692 regards, basti On 23.08.2013 13:44, Frank Lanitz wrote: >

Rasbian problem at update

2013-08-23 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi folks, I'm getting a strange issue with latest wheezy raspbian-image. At doing an update with apt-get it's stopping: -> Log at https://pastebin.geany.org/dfFyh/ Anybody an idea what is going wrong here? cheers, Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Query reg ifupdown 0.7.8 not bringing down all network interfaces.

2013-08-23 Thread sathishkumar kanagaraj
Hi All, 'ifdown -a --exclude=lo' option not bringing down all the interface(bond & VLAN) in wheezy. auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto bond0 iface bond0 inet static address 192.168.1.133 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 pre-up modprobe -q bonding mode=6 miimon=100 updelay=16500 downdela

Re: What if I choose install text-based mode than X?

2013-08-23 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 08/23/2013 05:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't know if an IRC client is available irssi for the hardcore; weechat for the fledgling 'leet Jeff -- hangout: ##b0rked on irc.freenode.net diversion: http://alienjeff.net - visit The Fringe quote: "The foundation of authority is based upon th

Re: What if I choose install text-based mode than X?

2013-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
As already mentioned by somebody else. You don't need a text based install to learn how to use Linux by command line interface. Using a desktop environment you can start a terminal emulation by a graphical user interface or you can push Ctrl + Alt + F-Keys Using mc as file manager would be count

Re: What if I choose install text-based mode than X?

2013-08-23 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:22 PM, 郭靖 wrote: > 在 2013年8月22日星期四UTC+8下午6时50分01秒,Ralf Mardorf写道: >> [...] >> > but I chose the wrong place for GRUB, at last it didn't run well. >> >> More information is needed to comment this. Maybe the wrong partition? >> > mc looks fine and I may tried out. >> mce

question to live-build

2013-08-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I hope, someone is more experienced with live-build than me. The problem: I have set up a live-build for kali-linux, which I want often build for new updates. But I do not want to download the whole stuff every time, so I am using apt-cacher-ng, which is working perfectly I also wa