On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 08:56:25PM +0100, Terence wrote:
> Lisi asks "And is London "up" or "down"from York?"
>
> London is "up". "Up trains" were those travelling to London terminii, "Down
> trains" departed from London terminii to other parts of the rail network.
That's an interesting, if histo
Felix Miata composed on 2017-03-31 02:22 (UTC-0400):
[xserver-xorg-video-mga is a user-space graphics driver]
...
If all the above doesn't help, repeat it, but append "iomem=relaxed" to the line
that included video and/or vesa and/or vga...
This showed up on vtty when I did dist-upgrade from je
On 2017-03-30, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>
> I'm connected via Ethernet so all my computers can use the device. Call
> me old fashioned: I've been using Ethernet since the '80s and I trust
> the security of wires rather more than wireless.
>
This may be of little interest to anyone but that has
There is no ambiguity if (as I have always understood) "Thursday" means
"this (or the coming) Thursday" and "next Thursday" or "Thursday next"
means "a week on Thursday".
And having lived in Yorkshire for two very happy years, I would agree that
York is above London in so many ways...
Terence
On
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:57:19PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 02:09:22AM +, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
[some stuff]
>
> This is yet another of those threads where the OP never returns after
> dropping their troll bomb... the only why oh why here is why oh why do
> we
On 28/03/2017 18:15, Brian wrote:
Any combination of preseed directives can be used
as boot parameters. For example: netcfg/get_ipaddress=192.168.1.42.
AFAIK, not on the website. You can generate all the preseed options for
yourself. Search the wiki for "preseed".
Brian, thanks for the rep
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:58:15PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/13/2017 05:38 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> >Currently, the system here is
> >
> > - every PC has a cronjob backing up $HOME to a central "server" (read -
> > repurposed PC with decent WD drives), just an rsync script that runs
>My understanding is that if there are no services listening on a port
>then
>it cannot be accessed.
Well, if nothing is listening on a port, then something can start doing so
unconditionally.
That's how w^Hsomeone rooted Dreamhost.
-nik
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On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 01:00:45AM +1300, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
[...]
> My understanding is that if there are no services listening on a port then
> it cannot be accessed.
>
> e.g.
>
> http://serverfault.com/questions/733633/if-no-servi
On Friday, March 31, 2017 06:30:25 AM Terence wrote:
> There is no ambiguity if (as I have always understood) "Thursday" means
> "this (or the coming) Thursday" and "next Thursday" or "Thursday next"
> means "a week on Thursday".
>
> And having lived in Yorkshire for two very happy years, I would
On Fri 31 Mar 2017 at 14:18:04 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 01:00:45AM +1300, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > My understanding is that if there are no services listening on a port then
> > it cannot be accessed.
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > http://serverfa
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:17:35PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 31 Mar 2017 at 14:18:04 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 01:00:45AM +1300, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > My understanding is that
>If someone unauthorised is on your machine can they not just as well
>remove firewall rules?
Well, not without getting root first.
And making something listen that spawns a shell usable to gain further access
is a big win. Keeping uploading PHP code to some vulnerable webserver will at
some p
On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: "the
> Thursday before last Thursday".
>
> To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use something like: "the
> Thursday after next Thursday".
Great - all fin
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:24:39PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> I've got a dual stack host and when doing various apt-y things I attempt to
> connect to:
>
> # apt update
> 0% [Connecting to ftp-chi.osuosl.org (2600:3402:200:227::2)
>
> but it hangs and doesn't seem to complete its connec
>Well, not without getting root first.
>
>And making something listen that spawns a shell usable to gain further
>access is a big win. Keeping uploading PHP code to some vulnerable
>webserver will at some point be noticed. Uploading something spawning a
>shell once probably not.
>
When $someone ha
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:34:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Great - all fine in theory. But you try announcing a meeting that way!!!
> Here in England we debate it, meaning that I and my husband disagree. When I
> say "next Thursday", I mean the Thursday next week. When he says next
> Thur
On Friday, March 31, 2017 09:34:26 AM Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like:
> > "the Thursday before last Thursday".
> >
> > To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use som
On Friday, March 31, 2017 09:45:59 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:34:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > Great - all fine in theory. But you try announcing a meeting that way!!!
> > Here in England we debate it, meaning that I and my husband disagree.
> > When I say "next Thur
On Friday, 31 March 2017 10:18:24 -04 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, March 31, 2017 09:45:59 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:34:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > Great - all fine in theory. But you try announcing a meeting that
> > > way!!!
> > > Here in England we
I tried "aptitude install Thursday" and that failed miserably.
Then I tried with `apt-get`: same result.
The worst part is that I get the same kinds of failures when I try
"aptitude install this Thursday" or "aptitude install next Thursday".
Stefan "confused about this Debian thing"
>>
On Friday 31 March 2017 15:15:46 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, March 31, 2017 09:34:26 AM Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like:
> > > "the Thursday before last Thursday".
On Friday 31 March 2017 15:43:50 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I tried "aptitude install Thursday" and that failed miserably.
> Then I tried with `apt-get`: same result.
>
> The worst part is that I get the same kinds of failures when I try
> "aptitude install this Thursday" or "aptitude install next Thu
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:50:12 +1300
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:57:19PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 02:09:22AM +, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
>
> [some stuff]
>
> >
> > This is yet another of those threads where the OP never returns af
Greetings all;
There was at one time, quite an extensive list of video widgits for the
glade2 environment, but when gtk2 went to gtk3, the only thing that was
brought forward was the designer and a small list of mostly text
oriented stuff, leaving out in glade-3.12.1, all the stuff needed to
m
On Friday, 31 March 2017 10:43:50 -04 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I tried "aptitude install Thursday" and that failed miserably.
> Then I tried with `apt-get`: same result.
>
> The worst part is that I get the same kinds of failures when I try
> "aptitude install this Thursday" or "aptitude install ne
On 31/03/17 14:34, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 31 March 2017 14:04:03 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>> To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: "the
>> Thursday before last Thursday".
>>
>> To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use something like: "the
>> Thu
Dear fellow debian users,
this is about a debian stable (=jessie) system and it does not
upgrade unattended and I have no clue how to debug this:
It's configured for jessie repositories:
# egrep -v "(^[[:space:]]*[#;\\])|^[[:space:]]*$" sources.list
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie ma
On 2017-03-31, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> For whatever it's worth, here in Ohio, "next Thursday" would mean the
> Thursday that occurs in the next calendar week. "This Thursday" means
> the Thursday that occurs (or occurred) in the current calendar week,
> though you'd need to use the past tense wh
I am using Jessie with MATE desktop.
I search for a string within a filename OR folder name.
I must distinguish between files, folders and links to either.
"Applications->Accessories->Search for files" will DISPLAY the data.
*HOWEVER* attempting to record the data yields obfuscated data:
ITEM NO
Hi to Everyone,
Every time I start my newly installed Chromium (on Ubuntu 14.04), I get
this warning message below. I have to cancel it twice before the app
starts to work normally.
translated from French :
'Please type your password to unlock connection tool kit. The pasword
you are using f
On 03/31/2017 07:20 AM, Ron Leach wrote:
On 28/03/2017 18:15, Brian wrote:
Any combination of preseed directives can be used
as boot parameters. For example: netcfg/get_ipaddress=192.168.1.42.
AFAIK, not on the website. You can generate all the preseed options for
yourself. Search the wiki f
I'm trying to use exim4 to send email to another site. My host
connects, negotiates a TLS connection and sends what seems to be a
reasonable amount of application data.
I then get an encrypted alert from the other host, the connection shuts
down, and the email doesn't get delivered. I don't get
Hi,
> […] on Ubuntu 14.04 […]
Any chance you chose the wrong mailing list?
Cheers,
Nik
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Since an upgrade on 2017-03-28 my debian Jessie system is continuously
dropping my soundcard such that mpd and mpv have no sound at all, but,
at this time qmmp and mplayer2 both have sound and work as they should.
My sound card is an on-board chip here -
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On Fri 31 Mar 2017 at 11:53:27 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> I'm trying to use exim4 to send email to another site. My host
Which site?
> connects, negotiates a TLS connection and sends what seems to be a
> reasonable amount of application data.
Exim sends something? What is "application data"?
On 3/31/17, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> […] on Ubuntu 14.04 […]
>
> Any chance you chose the wrong mailing list?
I missed that part when I skimmed the email. Am writing to say that I
am experiencing something similar *occasionally* on Debian Stretch.
Was seeing it on Jessie, too. I'll grab
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:40:29PM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:
> On March 30, 2017 8:27:54 PM EDT, Mike McClain
> wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:25:52AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:
> >> On March 28, 2017 7:46:02 PM EDT, Mike McClain
> > wrote:
> >
> >If I'm understanding you you're sa
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:07:54PM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> > That's how w^Hsomeone rooted Dreamhost.
>
> Are you referring to the 2012 incident, or something more recent?
>
> I thought the former was an issue with lax filesystem permissions.
(This is getting somewhat OT; if you want to
Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 02:22:10 -0400
>Your goal is to boot without Plymouth and without framebuffer, in
>80x25 mode, to give Xorg the best possible chance to work as expect.
>If Plymouth is installed, purge it.
>
>To proceed, hit the e key when the Grub menu appears, then remove
Lisi Reisz:
> And let us clear up another misunderstanding while we are at it. The other
> side of the pond you appear to be under a delusion that there is such a thing
> as British anything, including English. Try telling that to the Welsh, the
> Irish and the Scots!
There is nevertheless
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-31 22:20 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 02:22:10 -0400
It may be time for you to ask for help from the devs, using the
debian-devel mailing list or one of the freedesktop.org Xorg mailing
lists, or by filing a Debian bug.
Yes, perhaps, i
Curt:
> Trouble with you people is you don't get out on some of the other days
> of the week.
Us people who?
>> English is hilarious
It must be the only language in the world that you can adequately
communicate with a vocabulary of less than 400 words including
grammatical forms of the same root
Eike Lantzsch:
> it is e.g.:
> date -d thursday
> or:
> date -d next-thursday
> or:
> date --date='TZ="America/Asuncion" 09:00 next Thu'
> or
> calendar -w -t 20170406
TZ='London' date | grep "Universal Time"
On Friday 31 March 2017 22:53:00 kAt wrote:
> As there is a domination of the
> industrial North and elitism against the dominated South.
Not here The non-industrial white collar south-east dominates the
industrial north economically. The Northern Powerhub is so far a figment of
the politi
On 03/13/2017 08:58 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> With a "pull" arrangement (e.g. the server backs up all the
> workstations) -- if a workstation gets compromised, the backups should
> be safe (and might have clues about the intrusion).
On 03/17/2017 10:16 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> The back
I'm interested in tinkering with components of MATE and testing them while
leaving the APT-installed versions alone. I've built and installed the
components from the Github repos and installed them to /usr/local/. I
can't figure out how to load applets from /usr/local. In particular, can
some
Hi guys,
I admin a server with some 80 users (students) and tomorrow is april's fool.
Now, help me out...
What is a "reversible" prank I could play?
* It should be easy to make it working in some minutes (half an hour of
configuration at most).
* It should be harmless and reversible (of course)
>* It should be easy to make it working in some minutes (half an hour of
>configuration at most).
>* It should be harmless and reversible (of course)
>* It should last the whole day, people trying to figure that out.
# apt install sl
# ln -s /bin/ls /usr/local/bin/sl
# ln -s /usr/games/sl /usr/loc
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