Hi,
the reason why i am insisiting in getting facts is that
i want to know whether drive firmware can get altered
by just inserting and reading a commercial Blu-ray disc.
I sincerely doubt that the drive firmware will do this,
but rather believe it is about software on the level
of operating syst
Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a static ip
address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address and need to know it
before I plug it into my local network.
The address is not in /etc/hosts, and there is no Network Manager Applet
in the panel.
How can I determine th
On Thu, August 27, 2015 2:09 am, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a static ip
> address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address and need to know
> it before I plug it into my local network.
>
> The address is not in /etc/hosts, and th
Eike Lantzsch writes:
> must not try to steer". But I'd say that in this case the change of an
> interface name from one release to the other is at worst a slight
> inconvenience which I easily accept for the better big picture of predictable
Even when I had to use machine with multiple inter
Hans a écrit :
>
> fstab = this works with the trick
> fstab.orig = so it should be
> crypttab = my crypttab
There is not much difference between the two fstab. Only the mount
options differ.
Also, is it normal that fstab and crypttab contain the same UUIDs ?
AFAIK, fstab should contain filesyst
> This change gives nothing more than before. Unless it names the
> interfaces in a way that you understand from the NIC name that it's
> the one corresponding to leftmost plug on the second row on the rear
> of the box, this naming adds NOTHING except the need to edit legacy
> scripts.
>
> At le
On Thursday 27 August 2015 03:09:32 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a static
> ip address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address and need to
> know it before I plug it into my local network.
>
> The address is not in /etc/hosts, and
On Thursday 27 August 2015 03:03:14 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the reason why i am insisiting in getting facts is that
> i want to know whether drive firmware can get altered
> by just inserting and reading a commercial Blu-ray disc.
Absolutely Thomas. All of those things look for a key in
Am Donnerstag, 27. August 2015, 01:39:32 schrieb Ric Moore:
> On 08/26/2015 08:03 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com):
> >> not those of us who ~willingly~ subject ourselves to
> >> breakages.
> >
> > I want those people to be here for at least two reasons:
> Defi
On 25/08/15 23:56, Rusi Mody wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 12:40:05 PM UTC+5:30, Stuart Longland wrote:
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA512
>>
>> On 25/08/15 12:28, Rusi Mody wrote:
>>> I am teaching python (and some other related stuff) Students
>>> connect with a thin
Hi,
> We should keep in mind that it was Sony Music whose published cd's
> contained code to check the kind of drive it was being played in, and if
> the drive had a digital output such as the usual 40 pin atapi drive
> cable, then it was in a computer, and they bricked the drive.
Sony et.al.
* rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]:
[...]
>
> How can I determine the address without reinstalling?
$ host $(hostname)
Elimar
--
.~.
/V\ L I N U X
/( )\ >Phear the Penguin<
^^-^^
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:09:52 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Does Paraguay not have the equivalent of our National Electrical Code,
> commonly called the NEC?
>
> Here in the US, its considered the Bible on how to do electricity safely
> and legally in those government areas that require it.
No;
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:22:11 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a static
> > ip address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address and need to
> > know it before I plug it into my local network.
> > The address is not in /etc/hosts, and
Hi,
rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> > The solution: ifconfig
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> Or, as root, run
Or as normal user:
/sbin/ifconfig
It's only a matter of shell PATH, not of permissions.
Now why does my eth0 have so many inet6
On Thursday 27 August 2015 10:44:20 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> I am curious to learn more about the Sony-CD incident.
I googled it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4456970.stm
So sorry, Gene, but Thomas's instincts are right in this case. The player
was "bricked" only in so far as the root-
Am Donnerstag, 27. August 2015, 12:19:23 schrieb Thomas Schmitt:
Hi,
I understood the question of the op in that way, that he wants to give a new
ip-address without installing new.
The answer:
You can edit /etc/network/interfaces , after this
do /etc/init.d/networking restart.
If you are using
* ken [2015-08-20 06:53 -0400]:
> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs
> Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling
> reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?
Isn't a second hd in the CD-tray a better option? You have the
choice
Have a look at
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_iproute2_commands
as well as the whole chapter 5 of the Debian manual.
The "modern" way to control the IP-address is
$ ip addr
--
Regards,
jvp.
Hi,
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4456970.stm
Pity they don't tell on what operating system or
player the root kit was installed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
says that "Sony BMG quickly released software to remove the
rootki
On Thursday 27 August 2015 12:04:52 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4456970.stm
>
> Pity they don't tell on what operating system or
> player the root kit was installed.
"If you're using a Linux system, the Sony DRM rootkit does not get
On 08/27/2015 06:30 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
* ken [2015-08-20 06:53 -0400]:
One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs
Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling
reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?
Isn't a second hd in
I lost track of this thread somehow. Sorry.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Frédéric Marchal
wrote:
> On Thursday 20 August 2015 07:53:33 Joel Rees wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > They apparently did something just before 15:00 local time (GMT-4=EDT
>> > tod
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 August 2015 18:53:33 Joel Rees wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett
> wrote:
>> > They apparently did something just before 15:00 local time
>> > (GMT-4=EDT today, as both mailfilter and fetchmail are now
Hi,
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > So please bring me the rumors, the urban legends, and
> > the true horror stories about this topic.
> Google is a marvellous tool, Thomas. Or DuckDuckGo or $SEARCH_ENGINE
Any success with finding hints about Blu-ray drive hijacking ?
Panasonic promises to do like LG.
Mihamina Rakotomandimby writes:
> On 07/01/2015 09:21 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Hi ... As web browser, Midori was claimed to be light, but I see almost no
>> difference with Firefox. Please any advice for a *really* light one,
>> suitable for that old machine?
>
> Most browsers rely on the re
Hi,
as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case
package can not be upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" because upgrade
requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with
apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install new packages if needed.
Now for some reason "db5.
... Please help who can.
Thanks in advance,
Rodolfo
On 08/27/2015 06:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2015 10:44:20 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
I am curious to learn more about the Sony-CD incident.
I googled it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4456970.stm
So sorry, Gene, but Thomas's instincts are right in this case. The playe
On Thursday 27 August 2015 22:14:43 Joel Rees wrote:
> I lost track of this thread somehow. Sorry.
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Frédéric Marchal
> wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 August 2015 07:53:33 Joel Rees wrote:
> >> Any chance it's the old problem with Google's chain to a root CA?
> >
>
Le decadi 10 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
> the reason why i am insisiting in getting facts is that
> i want to know whether drive firmware can get altered
> by just inserting and reading a commercial Blu-ray disc.
>
> I sincerely doubt that the drive firmware will do this,
> bu
I append the following to /etc/console-setup/remap.inc
# Ctrl-arrow keys need to send the same codes as in X/xterm.
Control keycode 105 = F51
string F51 = "\033[1;5D"
Control keycode 106 = F52
string F52 = "\033[1;5C"
Control keycode 108 = F53
string F53 = "\033[1;5B"
Control keycode 103 = F54
str
On Thursday 27 August 2015 05:44:20 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > We should keep in mind that it was Sony Music whose published cd's
> > contained code to check the kind of drive it was being played in,
> > and if the drive had a digital output such as the usual 40 pin atapi
> > drive cable, t
Hi,
ken wrote:
> I mean, it's possible
> for either or both to have malicious code in their firmware. But is either
> *known* to?
Well, as you can see from my posts i fiercely deny to have
such knowledge of malicious code on the level of the drive
firmware.
(I can be convinced, though, if good ev
Hi,
Nicolas George wrote:
> There were the DVD drives by Matsushita, usually found on laptops, that did
> refuse to return the encrypted contents if the region did not match.
This sounds plausible, although i would heavily complain
towards the seller if i ever found out. There is few chance
i wou
On Thursday 27 August 2015 06:02:13 Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:22:11 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Months ago I installed Jessie + xfce on a laptop and assigned a
> > > static ip address to eth0. Now I have forgotten the ip address
> > > and need to know it before I pl
On Thursday 27 August 2015 09:52:58 Hans wrote:
> So, please apologize if I seem to annoying.
Hans - your Debianese is spot on so far as I can see. Where problems may
arise is, I suspect, when people misunderstand what you are saying. I had to
do a double take at this. ;-)
Lisi
On Thursday 27 August 2015 09:22:26 Joel Rees wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Gene Heskett
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 August 2015 18:53:33 Joel Rees wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett
> >
> > wrote:
> >> > They apparently did something just before 15:00 local ti
Martin T wrote on 08/27/2015 08:08 AM:
>
> Now for some reason "db5.1-util" package is kept back despite the fact
> that I execute "apt-get dist-upgrade":
>
I did an upgrade yesterday, and saw the same thing.
Experience suggests to me that it's a packaging dependency inconsistency
somewhere an
On Thursday 27 August 2015 06:25:52 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 27 August 2015 10:44:20 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > I am curious to learn more about the Sony-CD incident.
>
> I googled it.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4456970.stm
>
> So sorry, Gene, but Thomas's instincts are right in
Hi,
same problem here:
Wheezy Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u3 x86_64 GNU/Linux
running NFSv4 against a NetApp FAS2240 (ONTAP 8.2.3P2 7-Mode)
Multiple diskless NFS rooted systems reporting that warning:
infra03-a/syslog:Aug 27 14:22:16 infra03-a kernel: [164600.492851] NFSv4
cal
Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com):
> Hi,
>
> as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case
> package can not be upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" because upgrade
> requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with
> apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
> I believe being able to update the drive firmware in that manner it is
> part of the Orange Book specification.
The rainbow books describe CD media and what the drives
shall be able to do with them. No command specs, no wiring
specs, no relation to drive firmware, DVD,
On Thursday 27 August 2015 17:26:34 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 27 August 2015 06:25:52 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 August 2015 10:44:20 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > > I am curious to learn more about the Sony-CD incident.
> >
> > I googled it.
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/
Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com):
> On 08/26/2015 08:03 PM, David Wright wrote:
> >Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com):
>
> >>not those of us who ~willingly~ subject ourselves to breakages.
↑↑↑
\ \
\ \
\ \
El jue., 27 de agosto de 2015 18:46, Rainer Stumbaum <
rainer.stumb...@boerse-go.de> escribió:
Hi,
same problem here:
Wheezy Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u3 x86_64 GNU/Linux
running NFSv4 against a NetApp FAS2240 (ONTAP 8.2.3P2 7-Mode)
Multiple diskless NFS rooted systems
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Renaud OLGIATI a écrit :
> > An added advantage is that on the day you replace your Ethernet NIC
> > because it was fried by lightning, and put a new one in its stead, your
> > network config will
Hi,
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> (As if I invented online references!!!)
At least you have more luck with googling than me.
I beat this thread not because i want to win.
As said, it is about the potential hazard of too much
"user-friendliness" in the drive firmware.
If Gene has a pile of dead drives an
On 8/27/2015 9:04 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Nicolas George wrote:
There were the DVD drives by Matsushita, usually found on laptops, that did
refuse to return the encrypted contents if the region did not match.
This sounds plausible, although i would heavily complain
towards the seller i
Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de):
> * rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]:
>
> [...]
> >
> > How can I determine the address without reinstalling?
>
> $ host $(hostname)
$ host junk
Host junk not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$
... whether junk is localhost, another PC on the LAN,
Quoting Hans (hans.ullr...@loop.de):
> Am Donnerstag, 27. August 2015, 12:19:23 schrieb Thomas Schmitt:
> Hi,
> I understood the question of the op in that way, that he wants to give a new
> ip-address without installing new.
>
> The answer:
>
> You can edit /etc/network/interfaces , after this
Hi Pascal, and dear other helpers,
> There is not much difference between the two fstab. Only the mount
> options differ.
> Also, is it normal that fstab and crypttab contain the same UUIDs ?
> AFAIK, fstab should contain filesystem UUIDs whereas crypttab should
> contain LUKS UUIDs. I think that
Mike Kupfer wrote:
> I recently set up a VirtualBox guest that is running Sid. I can ssh
> from it to the host. But if I connect to my employer's network (using
> OpenConnect), I cannot connect to any systems on that network.
[...]
> From a different VM, which is running Stretch, I can connect t
Quoting Jochen Spieker (m...@well-adjusted.de):
> Gary Roach:
> > I've been fighting a redmine installation on my jessie system for a couple
> > of weeks but have finally got it working with one minor flaw. The program
> > will only start if I use my FQDN supercrunch.quantum.
>
> How do you "start
Hans a écrit :
>
>> Also, is it normal that fstab and crypttab contain the same UUIDs ?
>> AFAIK, fstab should contain filesystem UUIDs whereas crypttab should
>> contain LUKS UUIDs. I think that at least one file contains the wrong
> UUIDs.
> Thanks for the info, but it did not work.
What did n
Quoting Hans (hans.ullr...@loop.de):
> Thanks for the info, but it did not work. However, I found out, that the
> problem
> is the initrd and it looks like initramfs-tools is the problem. It looks like
> the needed modules aes-x86-x64, dm-crypt, dm-mo and sha256 are not correctly
> added into
On Thursday 27 August 2015 17:00:15 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I am curious to learn more about the Sony-CD incident.
>
> The mailing list archives contain many megabytes of such messages from
> upset people. Use the approximately correct search terms.
Go on, Gene! Provide some references. ;-)
Lis
> In the meantime, does adding
> aes-x86-x64
> dm-crypt
> dm-mo
> sha256
> to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules help? (Followed by rebuilding.)
No, it did not. I added these already. It is strange, It is not the first time,
I changed to encrypted filesystems, but this time, it did not work.
It is cle
On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:30:48 Seeker wrote:
> On a marginally related but not relevant note, that was at a time when
> hooking a computer to a TV
> was not so common,
My, we have some youngsters on this list now. ;-)
Connecting home computers to TVs came _before_ connecting them to monitors
On Thursday 27 August 2015 02:33:55 S Tan wrote:
> The people who built this site must not use it because it is useless. Try
> searching for something and it tells me the search is too generic. Try
> being more specific and it give me nothing. That is Debian in a nutshell. I
> don't know why I even
Hi,
Seeker wrote:
> I don't know what this "DVD cheating" stuff is about.
I mean people who buy stuff of which they know that
the deal is unfair and then take much effort to make
it possible to use it despite.
That's the legal fiction.
In practice i doubt that they paid properly for the deal.
So
David Wright:
> Quoting Jochen Spieker (m...@well-adjusted.de):
>>
>> Where's the problem in Apache using your router's DNS? Is it just that
>> the router doesn't resolve unqualified names (supercrunch without the
>> domain)?
>
> I didn't know bog-standard domestic routers ran a DNS server.
I th
Jochen Spieker:
> David Wright:
>> Quoting Jochen Spieker (m...@well-adjusted.de):
>>
>>> Using an IP address as ServerName is odd. You have to use the hostname
>>> that you want to use in URLs here.
>>
>> The latter seems odd, seeing as the first thing you would normally do
>> with a hostname is
On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 09:03 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the reason why i am insisiting in getting facts is that
> i want to know whether drive firmware can get altered
> by just inserting and reading a commercial Blu-ray disc.
Yes, it can - if you consider that the firmware on a BD dri
On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 22:19 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> For own data recordings it should not matter, anyway.
Correct. RPC codes only apply to the playback of DVD media that
contains data in DVD organized format designed for a player.
As a side note, RPC-1 drives have not been manufacture
* David Wright [2015-08-27 13:29 -0500]:
> Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de):
> > * rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]:
> >
> > [...]
> > >
> > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling?
> >
> > $ host $(hostname)
>
> $ host junk
> Host junk not found: 3(N
On 08/27/2015 01:33 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
Jochen Spieker:
David Wright:
Quoting Jochen Spieker (m...@well-adjusted.de):
Using an IP address as ServerName is odd. You have to use the hostname
that you want to use in URLs here.
The latter seems odd, seeing as the first thing you would norm
On 08/27/2015 03:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:30:48 Seeker wrote:
On a marginally related but not relevant note, that was at a time when
hooking a computer to a TV
was not so common,
My, we have some youngsters on this list now. ;-)
Connecting home computers to TVs c
Im totally able to upload and edit games and able to play them. I started
my chaneel a few days ago and i seem to be pretty good already, I have 16
views on my first vid and it builds up from there. I'm trying to get debian
and linux to get more users by showing off games, tutorials and other
thing
Hi Javier,
nfs.v4.read_delegation on (value might be overwritten in takeover)
nfs.v4.write_delegation off(value might be overwritten in takeover)
Did you try disabling nfs.v4.read_delegation?
No, since we only recently changed from NFSv3 to NFSv4 and with v3 were usin
On Thursday 27 August 2015 14:10:07 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > (As if I invented online references!!!)
>
> At least you have more luck with googling than me.
>
>
> I beat this thread not because i want to win.
> As said, it is about the potential hazard of too much
> "us
On Thursday 27 August 2015 15:42:24 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 27 August 2015 17:00:15 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > I am curious to learn more about the Sony-CD incident.
> >
> > The mailing list archives contain many megabytes of such messages
> > from upset people. Use the approximately corre
On Thursday 27 August 2015 16:19:11 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Seeker wrote:
> > I don't know what this "DVD cheating" stuff is about.
>
> I mean people who buy stuff of which they know that
> the deal is unfair and then take much effort to make
> it possible to use it despite.
> That's the l
Hello everyone,
I am curious if anyone knows who runs ask.debian.net or *.debian.net in
general?
Best,
Lev
Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de):
> * David Wright [2015-08-27 13:29 -0500]:
>
> > Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de):
> > > * rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling?
> > >
On 8/27/2015 12:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:30:48 Seeker wrote:
On a marginally related but not relevant note, that was at a time when
hooking a computer to a TV
was not so common,
My, we have some youngsters on this list now. ;-)
LOL
Connecting home computers to
> I am curious if anyone knows who runs ask.debian.net or *.debian.net in
> general?
debian.net services are unofficial; they are just entries in a DNS
table.
As for ask.debian.net, I don't know who runs it, but it's pretty much
dead.
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On 8/27/2015 1:19 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Seeker wrote:
RPC-1 [...] It was left up to the software to honor
the region code or not.
RPC-2, commonly accessible software is available that does not care about
region code settings.
Initialization was changed so software does not have access
Hello Folks,
I am pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools, version
1.68.
This release is mainly focused on integration with the newer init
system, systemd. Without the help from the awesome Debian systemd
maintainers, this would not have been possible. Thank you folks.
While the foc
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