simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
>From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) for a home or home office, how effective is a firmware-based firewall/router in comparison with a software-based stand-alone firewall/router? Is either significantly better than the other? I am thinking in terms of devoting an ol

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:02:42 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) for > a home or home office, how effective is a firmware-based firewall/router > in comparison with a software-based stand-alone firewall/router? I'd say even the SP

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:15:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). >> (...) > Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also "/usr/ share/doc/hdp

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I use UFW as firewall on all computers at home. It's very easy to configure. UFW (package ufw) can be found from Debian repositories. For documentation see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW . There is also graphical user interface called GUFW

Re: [MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64

2012-03-24 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Karlsen, That jet engine noise is really actually my Delta 12 cm 1.3 Amperes fan in my computer casing. As for audio track, I don't know what to say. Let the video speak for itself. Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) On 23/03/2012 00:40, Arnt Karlsen wr

Re: [MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64

2012-03-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2012 schrieb Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming): > Dear Xen Users and David Techer, Hi Teo, > It is only in the last few days that I have had great success with Xen > VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with > Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linu

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
Chris Bannister: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Chris Bannister: >>> >>> I didn't know about handbrake-cli and looks like it might replace >>> "videotrans" and "lxdvdrip" >> >> From what I can tell from their package descriptions: not quite. I >> usually dum

is there anti censor software in Debian packages?

2012-03-24 Thread Long Wind
I am in China, the government blocks many sites I just install freegate, it works well for Windows XP Which debian package can do that job? I used to use tor it worked for some time, later it didn't work -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: is there anti censor software in Debian packages?

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:20:25 +0800, Long Wind wrote: > I am in China, the government blocks many sites I just install freegate, > it works well for Windows XP Which debian package can do that job? I > used to use tor > it worked for some time, later it didn't work The Tor community will be glad t

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread green
Russell L. Harris wrote at 2012-03-24 02:02 -0500: > Is there a good firewall application in Debian which provides a secure > default configuration? Or must I learn how to configure a firewall? Hopefully you are able to find something simple to use, but if you do learn how to configure a firewal

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Chris Bannister: >> >> I suppose that ultimately all you'd need is libav (ffmpeg is >> "now/will be" deprecated) > > Oh, didn't know that. >From a recent -devel post [1]: > Actually, ffmpeg changed names to libav recently. The latter is

changing the title of the thread

2012-03-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Tom H wrote: . . . It happens very often that the discussion, although very intersting, shifts to something which has absolutely nothing to de with the original subject. In that case, I suggest to modify the subject when replying, as I did in the present reply. I

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-24 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:55:13 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:15:10 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I'm trying to put the MythTV PVR XBMC version on my Shuttle box. I need >> a newer alsa version than the one from Squeeze because the stable >> version doesn't see the soundcard. So I

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Chris Davies
Russell L. Harris wrote: > From the standpoint of protection of a LAN (two or three machines) > for a home or home office, how effective is a firmware-based > firewall/router in comparison with a software-based stand-alone > firewall/router? Is either significantly better than the other? Firmwar

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-24 Thread Curt
On 2012-03-24, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > My problem is that apparently some application somehow accesses the > drive but not in a way that block_dump catches. It won't spin up if it's not mounted, will it? I mean, I believe you mentioned you only use the drive once a day for back-up purposes, so

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:14:47 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:55:13 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> What do you think it would be better to completely go with testing. >> >> Testing is currently quite stable but there are significant differences >> between wheezy and squeeze, like

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-24 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:15:10 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > So I thought I'd go with Stable, the kernel from backports and alsa from > testing. > Unfortunately this doesn't work. I suppose my problem are wrong apt- > preferences numbers or something like this. Could it be that it's not possible to h

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > But don't worry; linear thinking is not linked to a particular gender. Don't you mean sex? Nouns and adjectives have gender, but people have sex. Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread shirish शिरीष
please CC me if anybody does answer this, sorry for top-posting. 2012/3/24 shirish शिरीष : > Hi all, > I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ? > > Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec, > texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.debdelta >  Error:

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
shirish शिरीष wrote: > I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ? > > Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec, > texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.debdelta > Error: applying of delta for texlive-latex-extra-doc failed: : > Sorry, not enough dis

US Weather Bureau video displays have stopped working

2012-03-24 Thread Edward C. Jones
My PC has up-to-date Debian stable on it. Although the CPU chip is Intel, the kernel is "AMD64". Here is an URL for a U. S. Weather Bureau radar site: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwx&product=N0R&overlay=1110&loop=yes This should show a time-lapse loop for the radar in Sterling,

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:59:56 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On 03/22/12 10:47, Camaleón wrote: To be sincere, I'm still unsure about what log file holds what information. In openSUSE, the main log was "/var/log/messages" and you had to look there t

Re: US Weather Bureau video displays have stopped working

2012-03-24 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:11:40 -0400 "Edward C. Jones" wrote: > My PC has up-to-date Debian stable on it. Although the CPU chip is > Intel, the kernel is "AMD64". Here is an URL for a U. S. Weather > Bureau radar site: > > http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwx&product=N0R&overlay=1110&l

RE: US Weather Bureau video displays have stopped working

2012-03-24 Thread Mike Viau
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:11:40 -0400 wrote: > > My PC has up-to-date Debian stable on it. Although the CPU chip is > Intel, the kernel is "AMD64". This is okay, and not a CPU problem >Here is an URL for a U. S. Weather Bureau radar site: > > http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwx&produ

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
>Is there a good firewall application in Debian which provides a secure >default configuration? Or must I learn how to configure a firewall? The package: 'arno-iptables-firewall' will do that. You will have to tell it how you're connecting (e.g. eth0) but after that it will configure a 'default'

Re: is there anti censor software in Debian packages?

2012-03-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 07:20:25PM +0800, Long Wind wrote: > I am in China, the government blocks many sites > I just install freegate, it works well for Windows XP > Which debian package can do that job? > I used to use tor > it worked for some time, later it didn't work > See if you can use http

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:09:57 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> But don't worry; linear thinking is not linked to a particular gender. > > Don't you mean sex? Nouns and adjectives have gender, but people have > sex. Nope, I meant "gender" which also applies to human beings, AFAIK.

Logs normalization (was: Can no longer mount SDHC card)

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:32:55 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Take a look at /etc/rsyslog.conf >> >> Nothing of interest (for the matter) here. >> >>> and >>> man rsyslog.conf rsyslogd >> >> Still no way to know where messages are being dropped. >>

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
2012/3/24 Joey Hess : > shirish शिरीष wrote: >> I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ? >> >> Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec, >> texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.debdelta >>  Error: applying of delta for texlive-latex-extra-doc failed

Re: US Weather Bureau video displays have stopped working

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:11:40 -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > My PC has up-to-date Debian stable on it. Although the CPU chip is > Intel, the kernel is "AMD64". Which is fine :-) > Here is an URL for a U. S. Weather Bureau radar site: > > http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwx&product=N0R&

Gnus can't open nntp+news.gmane.org

2012-03-24 Thread Pál
Hi, I used so far GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-03-21 on trouble, modified by Debian and in it GNUS to read and post news.gmane.org. Today I can't opne news.gmane.org with Gnus, I get an error mesage: Unable to open server nntp+news.gmane.org, go offline?

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:00:49 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > 2012/3/24 Joey Hess : >> shirish शिरीष wrote: >>> I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs >>> ? >>> >>> Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec, >>> texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.de

Re: Setup SSH to login from Internet to system behind firewal and sudo for few commands

2012-03-24 Thread Pál
Hi Dan, Dan Ritter randomstring.org> writes: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > I want to setup firewall/gateway for an user to can login with SSH into > > my desktop from the Internet. > > > > After the user logged in with SSH, I want to let it run commands: > >

Re: Gnus can't open nntp+news.gmane.org - SOLVED

2012-03-24 Thread Csanyi Pal
Pál writes: > I used so far GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) > of 2012-03-21 on trouble, modified by Debian and in it GNUS to read and post > news.gmane.org. > > Today I can't open news.gmane.org with Gnus, I get an error mesage: > > Unable to open server nntp+news.g

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:00:49 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> 2012/3/24 Joey Hess : >>> shirish शिरीष wrote: I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ? Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec

Re: Logs normalization (was: Can no longer mount SDHC card)

2012-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: Well, it's far more simpler than that: I was only "whining" for not having the same log files, located in the same place and holding the same information between the different distributions :-) Ahhh... The joy of Linux! /-; Linux is all about

Re: Gnus can't open nntp+news.gmane.org

2012-03-24 Thread Curt
On 2012-03-24, Pál wrote: > 400 load at 40.63, try later I've gotten this same error (using slrn with gmane) and I just took it to mean that the server couldn't handle any more clients (overloaded). It does say try later, which seems to substantiate this interpretation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Gnus can't open nntp+news.gmane.org

2012-03-24 Thread Csanyi Pal
Curt writes: > On 2012-03-24, Pál wrote: > >> 400 load at 40.63, try later > > I've gotten this same error (using slrn with gmane) and I just took it > to mean that the server couldn't handle any more clients (overloaded). > > It does say try later, which seems to substantiate this > interpreta

Iceape Mail View Fails To Show Multiple Accounts

2012-03-24 Thread Thomas H. George
I ran a dist-upgrade. View in iceape mail has changed - for the worst. Previously view would show all four of the mail accounts I have and for each the choice of mailbox, sent, drafts and trash. Now only one account is opened and the options sent, drafts, and trash are missing. For me this is di

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- 2012/3/24 Javier Vasquez : > 2012/3/24 Joey Hess : >> shirish शिरीष wrote: >>> I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ? >>> >>> Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec, >>> texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.debdelta >>>  Error: app

Re: is there anti censor software in Debian packages?

2012-03-24 Thread Long Wind
it seems that I have to use freegate with XP Thank Camaleón and Rob! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAB-gxZA22Kf-gbN4kuJ6f=8whfbt8zjkfvw_7aeegjvkuvc..

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Joey Hess wrote: > shirish शिरीष wrote: > > I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ? > > > > Downloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec, > > texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.debdelta > > Error: applying of delta for texlive-

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
2012/3/24 shirish शिरीष : > > ... > > How do I write values of TMPFS_SIZE and TMP_SIZE > > This is what it looks like atm :- > > # TMPFS_SIZE: maximum size for all tmpfs filesystems if no specific > # size is provided.  If no value is provided here, the kernel default > # will be used. > TMPFS_SIZE

Re: Iceape Mail View Fails To Show Multiple Accounts - Yes It Does

2012-03-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 04:05:38PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I ran a dist-upgrade. View in iceape mail has changed - for the > worst. > > Previously view would show all four of the mail accounts I have and for > each the choice of mailbox, sent, drafts and trash. > > Now only one account i

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, shirish शिरीष wrote: > How do I write values of TMPFS_SIZE and TMP_SIZE AFAIK, it will accept whatever "mount" accepts for the "size=" parameter for tmpfs filesystems. You can find that information on the mount(8) manpage. > This is what it looks like atm :- > > # TMPFS_SIZ

can't get sound to work with webcam Logitech C910

2012-03-24 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone ! I just bought the above mentioned web camera, and, if I record a video using Cheese, the sound is not there when I try displaying the record using 'vlc'. I get this: main subpicture error : blending YUVA to I444 failed this line repeated a number of times. The image is ther

Re: simple stand-alone firewall

2012-03-24 Thread Steven Jan Springl
On Saturday 24 Mar 2012 16:16:08 Charles Kroeger wrote: > > You won't get a 'stealth' rating at grc. Shorewall seems to leave port 0 > visible but closed. I don't know why this is but would be interested to > know if someone on this list knew the reason. > > What is the deal with port 0? I have

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 March 2012 15:09:57 Ken Heard wrote: >  Nouns and adjectives have gender, but people have sex. The latest strident feminist PC requires "gender". (It came up recently on Debian Women.) I share your objection. But then I never burnt my bra, I just got on and did a male (masculin

Re: US Weather Bureau video displays have stopped working

2012-03-24 Thread Edward C. Jones
Camaleón wrote: Ensure your browser is giving preference to the Flash Player plugin over Gnash. I installed flashplugin-nonfree and the problem went away with no changes in IceWeasel's settings. I suspect that the security update for gnash had something to do with the problem. -- To UNSUBS

ethernet card problem

2012-03-24 Thread Alan Kerns
The other day I installed debian-6.0.4-i386 on my backup computer and it worked so well that I decided to install debian-6.0.4-amd64 on my main computer. The install begins smoothly but stops dead when looking for network hardware. The unseen hardware is Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit

Best way to migrate disks

2012-03-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have an old 40GB disk and a recently purchased 1TB disk. The new disk has been partitioned into a 2GB swap partition, two 500MB partitions that are currently empty and the remainder is an LVM2 PV which I have added to my VG, so I now have plenty of space. So far, so good. My problem is tha

Re: ethernet card problem

2012-03-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/03/12 16:43, Alan Kerns wrote: > Realtek RTL8111/8168B As you've noted - that card requires firmware, you can build an installer that contains it[*1] or download one[*2]. If you have managed to install the base system you just need the firmware-realtek package from non-free:- http://debian.

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/24/2012 4:02 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > 2012/3/24 shirish शिरीष : >> # TMPFS_SIZE: maximum size for all tmpfs filesystems if no specific >> # size is provided. If no value is provided here, the kernel default >> # will be used. >> TMPFS_SIZE=20% > > See, this is as you wish. This particul

Re: Best way to migrate disks

2012-03-24 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 03/25/2012 01:16 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have an old 40GB disk and a recently purchased 1TB disk. The new disk has been partitioned into a 2GB swap partition, two 500MB partitions that are currently empty and the remainder is an LVM2 PV which I have added to my VG, so I now have plenty of

Re: Best way to migrate disks

2012-03-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/25/2012 12:46 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have an old 40GB disk and a recently purchased 1TB disk. The new disk > has been partitioned into a 2GB swap partition, two 500MB partitions > that are currently empty and the remainder is an LVM2 PV which I have > added to my VG, so I now have plenty