[OT] kernels, OSes, C, assembly: how far goes the rabbit hole?

2013-09-02 Thread Luther Blissett
So I've been late-reading 2 threads here (solaris, freebsd e linux kernel) that brought up the same curiosity though not directed related to any of those, so decided to start a new one as to not mislead others. Have anyone ever tried any of those: http://menuetos.net/index.htm http://mikeos.berl

Re: strange bash behavior

2013-09-04 Thread Luther Blissett
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 20:01 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 09/03/13 at 03:45pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Stephen Powell writes: > > > > > > Interesting. If "break" appears out of context, you should get > > > an error message something like: > > > > > >bash: break: only meaningful in a 'f

Re: ssh X

2013-09-05 Thread Luther Blissett
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 20:50 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Hello Verde, hope you are well :) > > Your error report/ request for assistance, is woefully inadequate. Let > me suggest further details for you to provide: > > On 9/5/13, Verde Denim wrote: > > Just successfully got ssh -X to work to

Re: Headers for Debian 3.0.4 on ARM

2013-09-05 Thread Luther Blissett
On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 23:33 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Hi, all, > > I'm still pretty new to Debian, so this may be a *very* stupid question, > but here goes. > > I have Debian 3.0.4 (via uname -r) on an ARM processor (after > update/upgrade) and am trying to get the kernel headers to compil

Re: Security?

2013-09-11 Thread Luther Blissett
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 20:07 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:27:36 -0700 lati...@vcn.bc.ca napísal: > > > Hello list. > > What do you think about it? > > > > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html > > > > What can one think about this? Here

Is heimdall capable of flashing to s5670 froyo?

2013-08-13 Thread Luther Blissett
Hello all, I've been trying to flash freer and newer firmware to a Samsung Galaxy Fit s5670b, Froyo, 2.2.1 using a jessie box. The official install procedure on xda-devel forums only support windows, through Odin and gives little info on the actual flashing procedure. Though some people said Heim

lvm2 on top of dm-crypt - how to add new hard disk

2013-08-21 Thread Luther Blissett
Hello folks, So I might better ask before attempting something stupid. I need to add a new hard drive to an encrypted debian box. The encryption scheme was set using debian installer defaults which resulted in just /dev/sda1 -> /boot outside block device encryption. Everything else is encrypted an

lvm2 on top of dm-crypt - how to add new hard disk

2013-08-21 Thread Luther Blissett
Hello folks, So I might better ask before attempting something stupid. I need to add a new hard drive to an encrypted debian box. The encryption scheme was set using debian installer defaults which resulted in just /dev/sda1 -> /boot outside block device encryption. Everything else is encrypted an

Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Luther Blissett
Since everyone is giving away their bits os appreciation, I felt like giving mine. My first ever GNU/Linux distro was some old Red Hat, which I couldn't handle well and was dropped in favor of Suse. Once again I had trouble with network hardware and was forced to dive in the command line with almo

Re: OT: sudo questions

2013-08-23 Thread Luther Blissett
On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 00:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:56 -0400, Doug wrote: > > On 08/23/2013 04:24 PM, Luther Blissett wrote: > > /snip/ > > > So I did a long search around, since I had absolutely no idea where I > > > was getting int

Re: dhcpdump not seeing dhclient messages

2013-08-26 Thread Luther Blissett
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 06:46 -0400, Sean Alexandre wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:54:27PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote: > > > I have a machine that's not acquiring a DHCP lease from my ISP. I can see > > > that > > > dhclient is sending DH

Re: Wireless works, wired doesn't [Debian 6.0.7]

2013-08-26 Thread Luther Blissett
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 16:09 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Problem is, I can't seem to log onto the router's amin console at > 192.168.1.1 from my desktop. I did manage to log onto it from my > laptop wirelessly. The DHCP server was reported as running. All the > other settings seemed OK as well