Re: [was UEFI] someone does

2014-07-11 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 13:12 +0100, Benedito Junior wrote: > Hello, > > I bought a new laptop and the debian does not install on it because the > uefi. Does anyone here known how to install the Debian using a UEFI > instalation like Ubuntu does? So I heard your question, but it did not strike me a

logrotate cannot rotate some log files

2014-06-14 Thread André Nunes Batista
Hello debianers! I recently noticed that some log files on a wheezy box are not being rotated anymore and are getting rather large. I went through logrotate.conf and logrotate.d and did not spot anything wrong. When I run logrotate -f -v /etc/logrotate.conf, some error messages are shown, but they

Re: Crypt data "on the fly"

2014-06-03 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 19:24 -0700, ty wrote: > On 06/02/2014 09:32 AM, L.M.J wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This may be a nasty/bad idea, but I still ask : > > I sync my data to a cloud storage online service. I do NOT want to > crypt my 60GB data at home, but I want > > them crypted on the cloud, so

Re: Debian 5 -- is going back to Roman Empire

2014-05-21 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:03 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An > > still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers, > > is t

Re: Tails

2014-05-19 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 21:06 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 16/05/14 16:42, Weaver wrote: > > Greetings all, > > > > Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? > > > > There's a young, female, investigative journalist there, who wants to > > install Tails onto a USB stick, with a persis

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-18 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 10:19 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 18/04/14 12:33 AM, Corey Blair wrote: > > I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off > > a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just > > wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 16:13 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-04-05, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 09:39:09 -0400, john s. wrote: > > > >> I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is > >> used for > >> storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatt

Re: [SOLVED LESS]Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-04-03 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 20:39 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:05:39 -0300 > André Nunes Batista wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 14:15 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > > > On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 12:36 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > On Mon, M

Re: [SOLVED]Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-25 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 14:15 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 12:36 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:17:17PM +, Joe wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:17:53 + > > > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > >

Re: Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-25 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 12:36 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:17:17PM +, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:17:53 + > > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Now, I'm not certain about this, but I suspect that either the > > > initramfs hasn't recognised that

Re: How to install wheezy uefi + gpt (was: Install debian on EFI hw)

2014-03-24 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 18:55 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 02:54:05PM +0100, ha wrote: > > Last few weekends I've tried to install debian 7.2 from live DVD > > (but booting from USB) on EFI hardware with GPT. I disabled EFI, > > crated a small partition at the begging of

Re: Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-24 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 21:29 +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:27:54 -0300 > André Nunes Batista wrote: > > > Hello dear debian users! > > > > Recently, one jessie notebook I administer went through a forceful > > shutdown (holding down the power b

Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-22 Thread André Nunes Batista
Hello dear debian users! Recently, one jessie notebook I administer went through a forceful shutdown (holding down the power button) and after that grub cannot see the lvm physical volume by uuid. After trying to load the volume for some seconds, it gives the following message and drops to a minim

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 12:36 -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > On 03/07/2014 12:33 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:05:00 -0500 > > Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > > > > Hello Dave, > > > >>I'm not looking for something to insert the passsword for me; > >>really I > >> just want a w

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 13:57 +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > I have a little server running here in my office, > and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. > I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts > at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am. > 15 4 * * * > Also,

Re: tor-arm warning

2014-02-23 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 11:18 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 2/18/14, André Nunes Batista wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 11:35 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> Does anyone know if tor arm can be run locally and tunnelled (rather > >> than remotely logging in and

Re: tor-arm warning

2014-02-18 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 11:35 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Does anyone know if tor arm can be run locally and tunnelled (rather > than remotely logging in and viewing the remote instance)? I tried but > arm seems to want to still talk to a local tor instance. Sorry this is > a separate question.

Re: Moving Wheezy to New Drive, et al

2014-02-14 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 14:13 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Well, the hard drive in my personal desktop machine has been running > virtually continuously for 7 years, and I'm gettin' nervous. So, time to > transfer Wheezy to a new, bigger drive; something I've never done before. > I've always c

Re: iceweasel upgrade being held back

2014-02-11 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 08:51 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On an existing Wheezy installation, performed "apt-get update", then > "apt-get upgrade" - but iceweasel is being "held back". Tried "apt-get > -f install" thinking it may be a dependency issue, but still being held > back. > > Any thoughts

Re: fwsnort invalid hex char

2014-02-04 Thread André Nunes Batista
ev:5; FWS:1.6.3;" -j LOG --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options --log-prefix "[2955] SID2017291 ESTAB " > > Thanks, > > > --Mike > > Apologies, André > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Michael Rash > wrote: >

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 11:21 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 31 ian 14, 17:19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > It's not only common (in some industry sectors 12 *random* characters > > regularly changed and never repeated is mandated), it's good security. > > Despite what some will advise en

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-30 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 13:47 -0600, Craig L. wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:07:08PM -0600, Craig L. wrote: > > I have a couple of VMs running on a remote server: one with an older > > version of > > Ubuntu, and one running wheezy. I have an ssh tunnel with X forwarding set > > up > > so that

fwsnort invalid hex char

2014-01-23 Thread André Nunes Batista
Hello debianers! I run fwsnort to update and improve on my iptables rule sets. On updating it's rules though I got this error message: # iptables-restore < /path/to/fwsnort.save iptables-restore v1.4.14: Invalid hex char '|' Error occurred at line: 4013 Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-rest

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-23 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 14:07 -0600, Craig L. wrote: > I have a couple of VMs running on a remote server: one with an older version > of > Ubuntu, and one running wheezy. I have an ssh tunnel with X forwarding set up > so that I can access the machines from my system as localhost > (ssh -p 48828 use

Re: debian-live-7.2 doesn´t start

2014-01-13 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 18:18 +0100, peter.gierschner wrote: > Thx for the hint, but that doesn´t fix the problem. When go into edit > mode I can see that the parameter acpi=off is in "486 failsave" already > included, and in falsave mode it crashes, too. > > Meanwhile i tried other distributions:

Re: Re: Problems while using Tor Browser on Debian 7

2014-01-09 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 01:01 +0600, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Right you are. I installed both the Tor browser bundle and Debian Tor > package. I also installed Viladia. Should I install only one of them? > Which one? Enlighten me. > Thanking you, > Muntasim-Ul-Haque > > You can use both at the

Re: stable mix testing

2014-01-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 20:16 +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all! I've a strange problem: debian stable with mate desktop: with > only stable sources list I don't have any upgrade to do, I added testing > repository like it: > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > # STABLE > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/deb

Re: Problems while using Tor Browser on Debian 7

2014-01-06 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 01:21 +0600, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Tor on Debian 7 but couldn't use it. Viladia is showing > the following errors: > /*[Warning] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Cannot assign requested > address*//* > *//*[Warning] /var/run/tor is not owned by t

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

2014-01-02 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 00:13 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > 'Titanium Backup' only works on rooted phones, and it isn't rooted! > > What I need to do is to be able to back it up to the external SD card, > which I can then dismount, remove it from the mobile and mount it on my > linux box. From ther

Re: Installing Debian 7.3.0

2013-12-31 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 11:26 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 12/21/2013 09:10 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:29:40PM -0800, Alireza Bahrami wrote: > >> According to Debian website it's enough for installing Debian on a system. > >> There is an old Dell Latitude laptop with specs

Re: startup console

2013-12-19 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 15:11 +0700, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody can tell me where I need to go to configure the console > I get before X starts ? > > For now, I get xterm and a minimal env setup, I'd like to configure those ? > I already tried and choose terminator : > > sudo upd

Re: Wireless Network Connection Unstable

2013-12-17 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 11:30 -0500, Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha wrote: > Hello, > I have an ASUS laptop with Intel Wireless-N module (iwlwifi driver). I'm > using Gnome network manager for networking. I'm experiencing following > issue with wireless internet connection and would like to know if an

Re: How to install Packages on Debian-Wheezy

2013-12-17 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 07:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 03:11:47PM -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > > might have and you will be able to use "dpkg" which stands for > > "de-package" to install it on your system. Otherwise you wi

Re: How to install Packages on Debian-Wheezy

2013-12-13 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 08:59 -0500, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Recently completed a successful install of Wheezy in Virtual Box. Runs > great but slow (for obvious reasons). I'm not looking for > speed/performance at this point but just looking to learn the > interface, access and perform

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

2013-12-10 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 20:33 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 12/6/2013 5:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > André Nunes Batista wrote: > >> BTW, why did they change that? Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way > >> to teach gui users to count. > > > > Hmm...

Re: Ports

2013-12-10 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 21:47 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:34:36AM -0800, Laura F wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to install Debian, but am unsure if it will be supported on my > > laptop. It wasn't specifically mentioned in the list of ports, but I'm not > > sure if a general s

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-06 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:58 -0500, Doug wrote: > On 11/26/2013 03:22 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On 11/27/13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Sunday 24 November 2013 19:20:47 Doug wrote: > >>> On 11/24/2013 12:34 PM, AP wrote: > >> [snip] > (i) Which Distribution: > >> [snip] > (ii) DEB vs

Re: does grub support wireless keyboard?

2013-12-06 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 00:01 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > another question: how to find out if my PC support USB keyboard? > does grub support USB keyboard? > if it support USB KB, does that mean it support wireless keyboard? > I am considering logitech wireless keyboard > I am running wheezy > Thanks!

Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?

2013-12-06 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 22:51 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > In my Xfce, they're both called panels (Panel 1 and Panel 2); my bottom > one contains all kinds of widgets (that I've customized and put there, > e.g. CPU / network / sensors monitors, clock, audio mixer, screenshot > tool), and my top one con

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-12 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 02:36 -0600, Conrad Nelson wrote: > Please understand I think FOSS is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT and VERY high > quality. I certainly appreciate it myself as a programmer. My point is > more toward the usability and perception issues that often plague many > Linux distributions, d

Re: ANDROID

2013-10-31 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 12:19 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: > On 10/30/2013 08:10 AM, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:35:37 +1100 > > Charlie wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:40:27 -0400 "Celejar cele...@gmail.com" sent > >> this: > >> > >>>The point here is that the FSF, who y

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-10-31 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 14:22 +, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:55 PM, John wrote: > > > > Could someone who has been following the giant fuss on -devel over > > init systems explain why there's such a sense of dire urgency? > > > > Is it provoked by systemd's effort to be adopted havi

Re: ANDROID

2013-10-29 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 10:56 -0400, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: > Hello to all, > > I shall want to buy a SMARTPHONE with a free O.S (GNU). > Many of my friends say to me that ANDROID is a free system, it is LINUX! > What do you think about it? > Does it exist a SMARTPHONE with a system DEBIAN G

Re: firmware installation

2013-10-28 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 22:35 +0700, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if it is possible to install some firmware in > the 3.2 kernel but from the 2.6 ? > > I need to install some firmwares to make the 3.2 kernel > works on my machine but I can only access the computer > when the 2.6

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 10:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:15 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > What? does everyone have their menus turned off? > > > > (Edit menu -> Preferences -> Contents tab -> disable JavaScript. > > Or am I missing something here?) > > I didn't refer to Ice

Re: ddrescue and windowsxp

2013-10-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 03:43 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: > On Oct 5, 2013 1:05 AM, "steef" wrote: > > > > hi folks, > > > > my eldest daughter has an old laptop with windowsxp loaded on it. the > machine crashed yesterday. > > > > my question: can i use debian and the ddrescue-procedure to save t

Re: lots of complaints with latest upgrade

2013-09-02 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 09:38 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Running wheezy amd64 the kernel/libc upgrade from today produced lots of > complaints: > > Preparing to replace linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 3.2.46-1 (using > .../linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64_3.2.46-1+deb7u1_amd64.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement

Re: iPod integration

2013-08-15 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 10:45 +0100, Klaus wrote: > Hello List > Now, my question is: how do I connect to my music with something like > Rhythmbox , VLC etc., to be able to compile a playlist, convert (on > the fly?) the flac files to mp3, and upload them onto the iPod? > Various bits of this proces

Re: Please don't cause unneeded traffic for TOR

2013-07-24 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 11:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 13:18 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > > Privacy is a fundamental human right. > > Full ACK! > > But it doesn't make sense to use TOR to access a facebook account. > > My words ar

Re: Please don't cause unneeded traffic for TOR

2013-07-23 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Ok, I'll rephrase my request. > > It's useless being subscribed to facebook and other crap, to store your > data at facebook and then to use TOR, to avoid that this data is > available for intelligence agencies. They simply take your data f

Re: About download speed

2013-07-22 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 19:40 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > And while we are talking about community, you could help the community by > quoting properly and interleaving or bottom posting. > > Lisi > > Is this the "appropriate way"? BTW, don't you find interesting that "properly" is derived from t

Re: About download speed

2013-07-19 Thread André Nunes Batista
43:53 André Nunes Batista wrote: > Please, note that this is debian user list, not debian customer service > list. He's trying to be a Debian user. Seems fair enough to me. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-16 Thread André Nunes Batista
Hello again! Yesterday I did a hardware cleanup and almost attempted suicide when my pc refused to boot afterwards. Upon solving the issue and having moved my hd around a bit, there was a complaint error message system saying something like: "Error mounting: Previous mount date 15/07/2013 is in t

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-12 Thread André Nunes Batista
Years back I went to duplicity, which is a highly flexible tool. Months ago I wrote a perl script to create duplicity backup profiles and set up cron entries to automate the backup procedure. Also, upon completion, it sends user a mail with backup summary and attached compressed backup log file. T

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy - more info

2013-07-10 Thread André Nunes Batista
Kind of a typo on the name of mate deb package, no?! Someone shall say shutthafuckup sometime, but I'm very happy using slim + openbox + tint2 + i3lock. Not that I hated gnome 3 at first, but after a while of using it, I couldn't help but feel desperate with its huge memory consumption and its unc

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread André Nunes Batista
Please, note that this is debian user list, not debian customer service list. Besides what others said, you could also try to download using bittorrent. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/ Look for you architecture and "bt" when browsing folders. -- Luther Blisset GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF

Re: apt-get sources.list from debgen problems

2013-07-10 Thread André Nunes Batista
It seems to me that the problem is a typo on your sources list, where it says: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free It should be "jessie/updates". Anyway, since jessie package list is corr

Re: Update

2013-07-09 Thread André Nunes Batista
Also, I would suggest you comment out the CDROM Squeeze binaries. They won't be used anymore. Uncomment then squeeze-updates and be sure to change that to wheezy-updates. If you do not work with sources, it's safe to comment out the src entries. Be sure to read release info and to backup files b

Re: Skype in sid?

2013-07-09 Thread André Nunes Batista
You could try to create a file on /etc/apt/preferences.d/ with appropriate package version pinning to skype lib dependencies. -- Luther Blisset GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 I challenge you to play the game in which there is no loser but everything is fun and worthwhile! --- Begin Message --- I kn

Re: Debian freezes randomly after suspend to RAM

2013-07-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
Anything interesting on /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog ? Btw, wicd is a pretty decent alternative to network-manager. If you think network-manager is the issue, disable it and see if it still freezes. -- Luther Blisset GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 I challenge you to play the game in which the

Re: encrypted USB backup.

2013-07-03 Thread André Nunes Batista
Otherwise, if there would be just a couple of files that won't change frequently, you could encrypt them with gpg and just move with ordinary file manager. This file then could be put anywhere you see fit. Underneath a picture or song if you are truly paranoid. -- Luther Blisset GNUPG/PGP KEY:

Re: Setting up simple VNC Server?

2013-07-02 Thread André Nunes Batista
I use ssh to connect and create tunnels, then a simple "x11vnc -display :0" to startup the server. If you need to stay on windows, search the web for "easy ssh tunnels putty". vnc is not a secure protocol so don't rely on just setting a password if you are accessing from faraway-pc. -- Luther B

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-07-01 Thread André Nunes Batista
I enjoyed very much to read your previous post, but here I'll have to disagree. Debian aims to be a universal operating system, but this is to some point contradictory with the pace of computer architecture innovation, which is not at all controlled by free software community, but self imposed as

Re: the continuing disappointment of Debian 7

2013-07-01 Thread André Nunes Batista
The think is, fuckoff flash! Flash is kind of a pain on web, constantly upgrading and always sucking, spying and crashing. Most of all, proprietary. I still have it, but I certainly wish for the time it will be gone. Mostly using it to grab and convert videos to foss compatible media protocols/algo

Re: Who decided we don't need update-notifier any more?

2013-06-28 Thread André Nunes Batista
This is what I'm doing: http://wiki.debian.org/Openbox But using some gtk apps nonetheless. Trying to coerce benefits of gnome. up until now I find it magnificent and fast. -- Luther Blisset GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 I challenge you to play the game in which there is no loser but everything is

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-28 Thread André Nunes Batista
Friends, shall we do peace? I'm under the same 32/64 bit confusion right now. What I understand is 64 bit gives you doble word blocks and thus process a much higher degree of precision calculus at once, but then it needs just as much physical memory to keep its results and so when I ran amd64 I ob

Re: wacky question

2013-06-24 Thread André Nunes Batista
Since I was the one who first pointed out 1984, I guess I should add another comment. I do not meant we actually live in Orwell's society. I used an hyperbole as mean to purposefully disregard the differences in fiction and point out how far his "distopia" went on to describe something very preval

Re: wacky question

2013-06-21 Thread André Nunes Batista
Same here! If you are trying to pursue security without thinking about "trust issues", either you are God or you believe there is one somewhere. Someone who has all knowledge possible. Well, they have designed just their first try on layman's eye. -- Luther Blisset GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 I c

Re: wacky question

2013-06-21 Thread André Nunes Batista
If you care to open any decent book on computer security, you will note that the first paragraph or so will state clearly that 100% security is impossible, dreamish. Cryptography + free software + steganography are to be used all together, to greatly increase the boundaries. But if you think you w

Re: wacky question

2013-06-20 Thread André Nunes Batista
Until recently I though facebook could be used in a concise manner, playing with the lured minds of those attracted only to convenience to propagate some urgent social agendas around my fellow neighbors. Today I am shit scared of the runnings of this society but also joyfully wandering through thi

Re: wacky question

2013-06-20 Thread André Nunes Batista
To my knowledge, you are never 100% sure once you are on Internet. But even before that, with today tech, every hardware could be sending some sort of signal, regardless of software running attop. Free software + encryption though are solutions that at least should put anyone willing to do it into

Re: Re: Lenovo WiFi Problem

2013-06-14 Thread André Nunes Batista
I'm not saying this is your issue but a few months back I had a "similar" problem and it turned out to be my wireless card wasn't exactly compatible with the latest IEEE 802.11N standard. Changing my router to B/G solved the issue for me. If nothing else, you could at least give it a try. -- I

Re: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME?

2013-06-11 Thread André Nunes Batista
If you care about resources, I would very much recommend openbox. http://wiki.debian.org/Openbox I've been using it for months now and I don't think I'm ever going back to any DE's. With little tweaking it became a complete replacement to full blown/bloated desktop environment. -- I challenge yo

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
BTW, sorry for double mailing but I also think it's worth mentioning that nowadays its just Debian. It has other kernels available, such as hurd and kfreebsd. One thing is debian e a total different thing is Linux. -- I challenge you to play the game in which there is no loser but everything is f

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
Machtelt Garrels wrote a terrific introductory guide in its simplicity. http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/intro-linux.html IMHO, it's impossible to have a "perfect guide" or best in some universal sense. Similar to what happens with software, our knowledge grows with gaps and it's up to us wh

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
ap.. :) --- Begin Message --- On Wed 05 Jun 2013 at 13:21:22 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > Well, fair enough, I'll give isohybrid a try. I it's certainly a shame > that I am stuck to something I first tried when the command line caused > me the creeps. > > Nonetheles

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

2013-06-05 Thread André Nunes Batista
Are you trying to use FF from experimental repo of mozilla in a purely debian stable release? That's bound to raise conflicts between its required libs. You may add sid and experimental to you source list and create a preferences file (/etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox). Read the man pages to learn h

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-05 Thread André Nunes Batista
on command line, not to someone who would know how to log procedures, lookup, debug and change config files and post all related info on the first email. Thank you for the bitchslap. --- Begin Message --- On Tue 04 Jun 2013 at 15:01:08 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > +1 to unetbootin! I

Re: Old Debian menu

2013-06-04 Thread André Nunes Batista
Hi, What do you mean by "old debian menu"? Debian's menu or gnome 2 menu? As far as I can tell, debian menu is pretty much the same since etch. If gnome 2 menu is what you strive for, mate or cinnamon would probably give you less headache than using gnome 3 in classic mode. --- Begin Message ---

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-04 Thread André Nunes Batista
+1 to unetbootin! I've been using it for long years with different flash drives, machines (not many processor architectures though) and distributions and it never even gave an error message. Configuration couldn't be easier on gnu newbie. Unless you want to get a better comprehension on the subje

Re: a browser for debian that will play pandora.com?

2013-06-04 Thread André Nunes Batista
I was hoping to enjoy some new music when I read the first couple of mails. However all I got from pandora was: "Dear Sir Mister Most Important Person U From Brazil? No-no!" --- Begin Message --- Doug writes: > On 5/31/2013 7:40 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > /snip/ >> Epiphany-browser works fine. > H

Re: How to run pm-suspend as user? [was: Re: Fluxbox questions]

2013-05-17 Thread André Nunes Batista
ly to obmenu without testing it on shell priorly. NOPASSWD was indeed what I missed. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- On Jo, 16 mai 13, 13:53:11, André Nunes Batista wrote: > I do not wish to hijack this thread, but I have a similar question: But you did hijack the thread

Re: Fluxbox questions

2013-05-16 Thread André Nunes Batista
xit andre@tagesuhu-pc:$ /usr/sbin/pm-suspend This utility may only be run by the root user. andre@tagesuhu-pc:$ ls -la /usr/lib/pm-utils/bin/pm-action -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2903 Jan 16 2012 /usr/lib/pm-utils/bin/pm-action -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- I've been using

Re: Torsocks.conf problem AKA gsettings proxy (SOLVED)

2013-05-09 Thread André Nunes Batista
onfig. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- Hi, I've found a bash workaround to this problem. Instead of connecting to ftp server through nautilus, it is possible to locally mount it using curlftpfs package. First, you need to make sure to except the host ip range address with

Re: libgpod 0.8.2 not working with ipod nano 5th gen

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
atures which encrypts song file names and basically puts obstacles to what could ordinarily be achieved with a simple file manager. To top it all, I've connected it to iTunes then and it worked just fine, no complaints about hashes, nothing. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- Hi th

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
Sorry, are you saying that it is possible to have the whole system encrypted using lvm-luks or just lvm? -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- On Wednesday 08 May 2013 07:44:48 Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:20:07AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > Doi

Re: Where are all the secrets kept? Re: Partially encrypted backup?

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
yring, which is encrypted. Other than that, I'm sorry but I won't be able to help you. It would require some research and I do not have the time to it right now. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 03:34:09PM -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: >

Re: wu-ftp substitute

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
Please, take a look: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf http://doxfer.com/Webmin/ProFTPDServer http://r3dux.org/2009/12/how-to-set-up-a-ftp-server-in-linux/ I've never used wu-ftp, but I've been using proftpd and I find it's setup simple enough. -- -- Andr

libgpod 0.8.2 not working with ipod nano 5th gen

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
ll remains unmanageable. Firmware version is 1.0.2. Does anyone have a clue to solving this issue? I am guessing the firmware upgrade may have trashed the work of libgpod developers. That's so apple style... Thank you! -- -- André Nunes Batista signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: slony wheezy

2013-05-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
wheezy. Then install it using apt-get install. If you care, do a little research on web and then contact package team if you still can't find out the policy of this package on wheezy. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- Where is slony1-2 gone in wheezy/stable? Where can i get pac

Re: wu-ftp substitute

2013-05-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
# apt-cache search ftp | grep server -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- vsftpd On 7 May 2013 16:23, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a wu-ftp substitute, i.e., an ftp server that is > relatively easy to configure the anonymous upload. > >

Re: Partially encrypted backup?

2013-05-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
duplicity --include "$SHELL_PATTERN" or --exclude "$SHELL_PATTERN". BTW, duplicity uses rdiff as a backend so if you wish to keep previous rdiff backups, I am guessing you could make duplicity aware of them, but this is just a wild guess. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Messag

Re: Torsocks.conf problem

2013-05-04 Thread André Nunes Batista
ftpfs#USER:PASSWORD@HOST/DIR /PATH/DIR fuse rw,allow_other,auto,user 0 0 Since this is a more universal solution, I'm sticking to it. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- Hi there! I use tor system wide through gnome proxy settings localhost:9050. According to torsocks.conf man p

Torsocks.conf problem

2013-05-03 Thread André Nunes Batista
her program just for this. Does anyone have a hint to the solution? -- -- André Nunes Batista signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-02 Thread André Nunes Batista
There are many voip softwares available and ekiga may be the most prominent. Although not the ideal from a free software perspective, you can also use a plugin to access skype network through pidgin. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- Hi, I would like to know if there is a light