Re: firewall

On 4 Jul, 2012, at 14:15, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should >> choose. >> >> Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you tell >> me why you recommend th

xen hypervisor security update.

Hello. In debian squeeze there are several xen security updates: xen-hypervisor xen-utils and so on. In the debian website there are no information on what are the fixes. Where can I find them? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: xen hypervisor security update.

04.07.2012 09:20, Mauro: > In the debian website there are no information on what are the fixes. The information is there. > Where can I find them? http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501 -- Regards mks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: firewall

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 04.07.2012 06:19, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I > should choose. > > Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you > tell me why you recommend this one. > > Best reg

Re: xen hypervisor security update.

> Mauro writes: > In debian squeeze there are several xen security updates: > xen-hypervisor xen-utils and so on. > In the debian website there are no information on what are the fixes. ? http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501 > Where can I find them? Apart from c

Re: firewall

On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:04 +0800, lina wrote: > On 4 Jul, 2012, at 14:15, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should > >> choose. > >> > >> Thanks ahead for recommendation,

Re: firewall

Web base Firewall (IPCOP) very powerful with the addon called BOT (block out traffice) base on IPtables. On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:04 +0800, lina wrote: >> On 4 Jul, 2012, at 14:15, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +080

Re: firewall

On 7/4/12 10:46 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Web base Firewall (IPCOP) very powerful with the addon called BOT > (block out traffice) base on IPtables. In some ways it's easier just to work with IPtables directly. Regards, /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: firewall

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 15:04:03 +0800 lina wrote: > > Ha... I just realized mine is exposed at least in our department. I > can see the open ports and the OS. Just sometimes wish it can be > invisible in some way. > Most ports can be closed by configuration, even the infamous portmap can be lim

Re: firewall

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 7/4/12 10:46 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> Web base Firewall (IPCOP) very powerful with the addon called BOT >> (block out traffice) base on IPtables. > > In some ways it's easier just to work with IPtables directly. not just easy but

Re: firewall

Thanks all. Actually I even don't know how to check where there was/is attach or not. I am looking for a firewall is mainly to have some sense of guarantee, otherwise I will definitely freak out in front of attack. I will start learning something about iptables. Just know so little ^_^ Thanks

Re: firewall

On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 12:46 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Web base Firewall (IPCOP) very powerful with the addon called BOT > (block out traffice) base on IPtables. I don't care, but I certain that I know some guys (no women) how recommend IPCOP too, for good reasons. At least for my usage

Re: Upgrading to Wheezy (frozen)

Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:35:03 +0200, daniele.g wrote: > >> Are already there the release notes for upgrading to Wheezy? > > ? > > We're still long away from Wheezy release (~6 months?). > > Frozen != released :-) Yes, you're very right, but, come on, at this point I suppose th

Re: Upgrading to Wheezy (frozen)

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:28:57PM +0200, daniele.g wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > Frozen != released :-) > > Yes, you're very right, but, come on, at this point I suppose that it > should be defined if, for example, systemd will replace insserv. It will not. sysvinit/sysv-rc/insserv will rem

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Siard wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Siard wrote: >>> Mika Suomalainen wrote: It seems that Debian's grub can only detect Debian and Windows 7, but not Ubuntu. >>> >>> First make sure that Ubuntu's /boot/grub/grub.cfg contains a >>> menuentry for Ubuntu in

Re: Upgrading to Wheezy (frozen)

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:28:57PM +0200, daniele.g wrote: >> Camaleón writes: >> >> > Frozen != released :-) >> >> Yes, you're very right, but, come on, at this point I suppose that it >> should be defined if, for example, systemd will replace

Re: firewall

> Hi, > > I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should > choose. APF (Advanced Policy Firewall) > > Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you tell > me why you recommend this one. Easy to configure and comprehensively used by many ISPs. Other rea

Re: UDEV identical devices. How to?

07/04/12 02:29, Andrew Reid пишет: If you're set on using udev, it should be possible to find the devices under /sys somewhere (/sys/bus/pci/...), and query them for udev-sensitive attributes using udevinfo (or the appropriate udevadm commands), until you find something that differs between th

Re: firewall

On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should > choose. > > Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you tell > me why you recommend this one. > > Best regards, > > I think you don't need

Re: firewall

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 12:46 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> Web base Firewall (IPCOP) very powerful with the addon called BOT >> (block out traffice) base on IPtables. > > I don't care, but I certain that I know some guys (no women) how >

Re: Backports on Squeeze

Am 03.07.2012 um 23:02 schrieb Chris Bannister: [...] Add backports to your sources, update, then spend some time comparing your favourite packages, see answer to 2+3. Remember a package may be backported at anytime, so you may need to check more than once. apticron with mail-notification?

Re: aptitude update question

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:47:33AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > One thing I read as the end result of some update operations is a certain > number of new. I take it to mean new packages if I'm correct. What I'd > like to know is if any utility exists that can tell me the names of the > new pa

Re: aptitude update question

Thanks much, I'll probably use the command line approach. Windows Pants: made entirely of patches on patches each with a picture of a Microsoft Vacuum Cleaner; a computer mouse, or a dollar sign. Jude

Re: aptitude update question

Just thought of something, would: "aptitude search '?new' '?uninstalled'" show the new packages that aren't yet on the system? On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:47:33AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > One thing I read as the end result of some update operations

Re: Crontab, Scripting and Syslog (solved)

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:47:35 +0200 Titanus Eramius wrote: > snip > > > # min hr dom mon dow command > > > * 04 * * * /home/titanus/scripts/web-log >> /dev/null 2>&1 > > > > That is, every minute during hour 4, on every day of every month > > (that being every day of the week), the comma

Re: Crontab, Scripting and Syslog (solved)

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:07:46 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: > Titanus Eramius wrote: > > * 04 * * * /home/titanus/scripts/web-log >> /dev/null 2>&1 > > > The line runs every morning at 4, and AFAIK, the /dev/-part should > > redirect all but errors to null. > > No. > > 1. This runs every minute wh

Re: aptitude update question

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:32:39AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Just thought of something, would: "aptitude search '?new' '?uninstalled'" > show the new packages that aren't yet on the system? I think that, if you've installed a package, it's no longer counted as new. Additionally, you can confi

Re: firewall

OK, I see that this might be flamebait ... On Tuesday 03 July 2012 23:19:06 lina wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should > choose. > > Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you tell > me why you recommend this one. > > Best

Re: Gnome 3 fallback not working with Silicon Motion GPU

On 03/07/12 18:02, Camaleón wrote: Is the same when you login with a fresh-new created user? In principle I don't see it as a VGA driver problem :-? Anyway, you can check the driver in use from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and also when running "lspci -vv" (scroll down for the VGA card and look

Re: firewall

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 10:53:00AM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 7/4/12 10:46 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Web base Firewall (IPCOP) very powerful with the addon called BOT > > (block out traffice) base on IPtables. > > In some ways it's easier just to work with IPtables directly. Except

Re: firewall

Hi, Following the instructions from http://wiki.debian.org/iptables I am kinda of "running" the iptables now? (perhaps I understand wrong. welcome correction.) One thing a bit unexpected (to me) is that there are continuously rolling info as following: Jul 4 22:18:07 Debian dhclient: DHCPREQU

Re: changing the font size in Xdialog

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:51:37 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Camale?n wrote: > >> Could it be because the kind of widget you are using (--msgbox) does >> not allow the font property to be changed? I would try with the exact >> example used in the FAQ. > >I actually tried

Re: Upgrading to Wheezy (frozen)

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:28:57 +0200, daniele.g wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:35:03 +0200, daniele.g wrote: >> >>> Are already there the release notes for upgrading to Wheezy? >> >> ? >> >> We're still long away from Wheezy release (~6 months?). >> >> Frozen != released :-)

Re: firewall

P.S. Your guys are great. Sometimes even I didn't reply item by item, or thanks one by one, but I read every sentences in the emails. Many times read more than once. So please kindly realize that your suggestions are very valuable and highly appreciated (most time silently). BTW, I didn't realize t

Re: Backports on Squeeze

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:38:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:04:52PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:38:02 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:09:49 -0600, Paul E C

Re: CD/DVD diagnostic tools needed

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:21:21 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:32:18PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:17:12 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:37:42PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:34:00 +1200, Chris Ba

Re: Very slow network with certain APs -- ipv6 problem?

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:10:46 -0700, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > Since the "official" switch to IPv6 I've been having serious problems > with certain wireless APs. Some are unchanged, but others are very, very > slw for no detectable reason. Yet, the same APs are just as easily > accessible as alwa

Re: Gnome 3 fallback not working with Silicon Motion GPU

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:55:11 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > On 03/07/12 18:02, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Is the same when you login with a fresh-new created user? >> >> In principle I don't see it as a VGA driver problem :-? >> >> Anyway, you can check the driver in use from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log >

Re: not autocompleting

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:11:19 +0100, mk bane wrote: > On 6/23/12, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> How about your alias? Do you have something fancy added that can be >> interferring with autocomplete? Are you experiencing the problem when >> you login with a different user? Does the same happen for all

Re: cannot upgrade or remove multipath-tools

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:31:40 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > In doing `aptitude ugrade`, multipath-tools is to be upgraded, but I > keep getting the following message: > > % sudo aptitude install multipath-tools [...] > Preparing to replace multipath-tools 0.4.9+git0.4dfdaf2b-4 (using > .../multipa

Re: minimal HTTP server recommends

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:10:32 +, T o n g wrote: > Just noticed that the thttpd package that I'm using has been removed > from Debian repo early this year. Mmm, it was removed because of: http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/thttpd/news/20120101T154305Z.html --- Reason

Re: firewall

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should >> choose. >> >> Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you tell >> me why you recommend

Re: changing the font size in Xdialog

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Camale?n wrote: http://xdialog.free.fr/ Remarks regarding some distributions quirks: Wow... not a Debian lover here :-P yes, and In My Holy Opinion, stupid... If the font are broken, how comes that they are displayed correctly (good shape and size), with the --fon

Re: GPG - secret key not available?

Jon Dowland writes: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 04:51:09PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: [snip] > I suspect that's what you are doing wrong; you should export the > public half rather than the secret. It's the public half which is used > by others to verify your sigs. gpg: skipped "Csanyi Pal ": secr

Re: not autocompleting

On 2012-07-04, Camaleón wrote: > > Ah, you mean for "hidden" directories. > > For those I neither get the autocomplete when using OOo applications > (oowriter, oocalc...), though it works with the usual bash built-in tools > (e.g., "cat .th[tab]" → it does autocomplete). > > Not sure if this be

Re: firewall

On Wednesday 04 July 2012 17:14:29 Brad Alexander wrote: > The third reason we > are not in the same boat as windows is that we have a much smaller > attack surface than Windows. Windows still has over 90% penetration on > the desktop, Therefore, they are the low hanging fruit. How, then, do you e

Re: Random lockups

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time > recently. > > There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system > just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. It locks > s

Re: not autocompleting

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:05:58 +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-07-04, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Ah, you mean for "hidden" directories. >> >> For those I neither get the autocomplete when using OOo applications >> (oowriter, oocalc...), though it works with the usual bash built-in >> tools (e.g., "cat .th[

Re: Random lockups

On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system just locks changing what's on the screen to

Re: cannot upgrade or remove multipath-tools

* Camaleón [120704 10:51]: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:31:40 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > In doing `aptitude ugrade`, multipath-tools is to be upgraded, but I > > keep getting the following message: > > > > % sudo aptitude install multipath-tools [...] > > Preparing to replace multipath-tools 0.4

[POSTPONED] Re: installation with UEFI

On 2012-07-03 19:23, Camaleón wrote: > There was a discussion at the devel mailing list: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00168.html Thanks for this, hadn't seen it yet. > And also an article from the same person who started the above thread: > > http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/

Re: firewall

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:11:14 +0100 Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 04 July 2012 17:14:29 Brad Alexander wrote: > > The third reason we > > are not in the same boat as windows is that we have a much smaller > > attack surface than Windows. Windows still has over 90% penetration > > on the desktop, There

Re: Random lockups

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:46:56 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >>> My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time >>> recently. >>> >>> There is nothing is the syslog...n

which layer to configure so Alt-x does Meta-x in bash?

What's the right layer to reconfigure so that Alt functions as Meta in bash command line editing? Right now, when I try to type Alt-f to execute bash's Meta-f line-editing function (Forward Word), bash instead inserts a non-ASCII character (the a-e ligature). That happens in bash in xterm and in

Re: cannot upgrade or remove multipath-tools

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:22:17 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > * Camaleón [120704 10:51]: (...) >> > Command failed >> > invoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action "stop" failed. >> >> Could it be because of this? >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674733 > > Yes, I was

Re: firewall

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:11:14 +0100 > Lisi wrote: > >> On Wednesday 04 July 2012 17:14:29 Brad Alexander wrote: >> > The third reason we >> > are not in the same boat as windows is that we have a much smaller >> > attack surface than Windows. Windows sti

Re: firewall

On 04/07/12 10:31, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 04.07.2012 06:19, lina wrote: >> >> I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I >> should choose. >> >> [...] >> > I recommend UFW. It's simple to use and does everything what firewall > should do in my opinion. > > All commands

Re: firewall

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Joe wrote: > > Most ports can be closed by configuration, even the infamous portmap > can be limited to localhost if you're not using it externally e.g. for > NIS or NFS. If you have a standalone Linux machine in a foreign > network, pretty much everything can be cl

Re: firewall

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > *chuckle* A trillion years ago I used a firewall myself. "Ports" are an > issue, I wasn't able to down- or upload by ftp. BUT, How many serious > attacks did you notice around the last 30 days? Your aversion to security is interesting. You d

Re: Current SSD setup recommendations for laptop with Debian

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 01:03:34AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > People often need to be presented with a healthy dose of realism--what > you call "harsh". > > Once the OP asked about "alignment" I knew he needed a dose... I don't need a "dose", thank you. All my questions are valid and you did

Re: firewall

On Wed 04 Jul 2012 at 11:19:06 +0800, lina wrote: > I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I > should choose. > > Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you tell > me why you recommend this one. You can either manipulate netfilter directly with iptab

Re: Upgrading to Wheezy (frozen)

Roger Leigh writes: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:28:57PM +0200, daniele.g wrote: >> Camaleón writes: >> >> > Frozen != released :-) >> >> Yes, you're very right, but, come on, at this point I suppose that it >> should be defined if, for example, systemd will replace insserv. > > It will not.

Re: firewall

On Wed 04 Jul 2012 at 12:14:29 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > > To answer drily: Test them and report what firewall does protect you the > > best against no attacks. Linux for home usage was safe, is safe, will be > > safe. Yes, it's sa

Re: which layer to configure so Alt-x does Meta-x in bash?

> What's the right layer to reconfigure so that Alt functions as Meta in bash > command line editing? > > Right now, when I try to type Alt-f to execute bash's Meta-f line-editing > function (Forward Word), bash instead inserts a non-ASCII character (the > a-e ligature). That happens in bash in x

Re: Very slow network with certain APs -- ipv6 problem?

Camaleón wrote: > You mean you're still using ipv4 with no ipv6 support from the OS at all? I am using an up-to-date install of Squeeze. There were several network related updates when IPv6 was supposed to be activated. So I presume this was an activation for Debian. Since then, certain wire

Re: firewall

On Wed 04 Jul 2012 at 08:21:10 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > OK, I see that this might be flamebait ... > > On Tuesday 03 July 2012 23:19:06 lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should > > choose. > > > > Thanks ahead for recommendation, a

Re: Current SSD setup recommendations for laptop with Debian

Nick Lidakis wrote at 2012-07-04 16:15 -0500: > I'm not a tweaker; I need to get work done on my laptop. Also, I need the > drive to perform reliably for as long as possible. My data is important to me > and I try to use my computer hardware for as long as possible --not > subscribing to the idea o

Sid, kernel 3.2.0.3 Removable media not working

Dear Debian User, I updated three Sid systems this morning, two laptops and a desktop, stupidly removing kernel 3.2.0.2 from two of them before testing all functionality. What I'm seeing is that with kernel 3.2.0.2 removable media like CDs, USB thumb drives, etc, mount just fine, but when booted i

how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but I then need to tell grub to set up this up as the root for the boot. How do I do this? -- Alan Chandler http://w

Re: Random lockups

On 04/07/12 04:11 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:46:56 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. Can you still

Small xorg?

Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited features OK) for an old Thinkpad 240X -- max RAM 192MB (design limit.  won't take more.   tried.), 500MHz P3, 800x600 screen--to install Squeeze on?  I'm running Etch and XFCE on it currently.  Want to see if I can install a supported

Re: firewall

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Brian wrote: > A commonly used phrase - military in origin, I imagine. One day I must > investigate how a firewall can protect my mail server. Until then I will > just continue to accept connections from anywhere. I will give you an example of this. Your mailserve

Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always XP Pro. VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe Premiere Elements. I have filed a bug at Oracle's site, but no action yet aft

Re: Current SSD setup recommendations for laptop with Debian

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > Once the OP asked about "alignment" I knew he needed a dose... > > I don't need a "dose", thank you. All my questions are valid and you did Indeed, you don't need any dose of reality, and your questions are valid. Any proper sysadmin knows of alignmen

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

shawn wilson gmail.com> writes: > per one of the other replies, it has been dropped on the upstream It has only been dropped upstream if you believe the project's own home page, which has not been updated in some time. One must dig into the project's message board or forum to find posts about mo

Re: Small xorg?

Good time of the day, Patrick. You worte: > Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited > features OK) for an old Thinkpad 240X -- max RAM 192MB (design limit. >  won't take more.  tried.), 500MHz P3, 800x600 screen--to install > Squeeze on?  I'm running Etch and XFCE on it cu

Re: firewall

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 04 Jul 2012 at 11:19:06 +0800, lina wrote: > >> I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I >> should choose. >> >> Thanks ahead for recommendation, and it will be very nice if you tell >> me why you recommend this one. > >

DVD burning within VirtualBox VM

Hi, I think DVD burning would be possible within the VirtualBox VM. Can anyone confirm that? The host is Win7, and I don't like Windows' DVD burning solution at all. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -

Re: Small xorg?

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day, Patrick. > > > You worte: > >> Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited >> features OK) for an old Thinkpad 240X -- max RAM 192MB (design limit. >> won't take more. tried.), 500MHz P3, 800x600 screen--

Re: DVD burning within VirtualBox VM

2012/7/5 T o n g : > Hi, > > I think DVD burning would be possible within the VirtualBox VM. Can > anyone confirm that? > > The host is Win7, and I don't like Windows' DVD burning solution at all. > > Thanks > it is possible and i had done that because debian detects blank dvd on my external dvdbu

Re: Small xorg?

You can use DSL(damn small linux), debian with no DEs just a simple Wm. The wms I prefer are fluxbox and openbox. If you want to use a DE, then use lxde or xfce. Javier Vasquez wrote: >On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: >> Good time of the day, Patrick. >> >> >> You worte: >> >>

Re: DVD burning within VirtualBox VM

Never tried DVD burning in virtualbox. But worth finding out. Make sure you point your DVD drive to the idea storage and start from there. Let us know what happens. T o n g wrote: >Hi, > >I think DVD burning would be possible within the VirtualBox VM. Can >anyone confirm that? > >The host is

Re: Current SSD setup recommendations for laptop with Debian

On 7/4/2012 4:15 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Stan, you gave me rant because you assumed my computer case has lots of blue > LEDs. You can try again or just don't bother. I gave you all of the information you need. Do you feel you are missing necessary information? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

dotdeb.org?

How reliable/trustworthy is this site? I want to install packages that aren't in squeeze or squeeze-backports. (php5-fpm in particular, atm) Should I be pretty safe with dotdeb? Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".