Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:20:26 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: > On Mar 10, 2011 12:27 PM, wrote: > > > > Hello Jason, > > > > From: Jason Hsu > > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600 > > > What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP > over SSH? Or something else? > > >

Clang include paths

2011-04-17 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
I'm running a fresh install of debian-testing on an amd64 laptop. I do lots of C++ compiling, and prefer clang's error messages to g++'s cryptic gobbledygook. After installing clang, I was surprised to find that nothing compiled. Stepping back, I tried to compile hello world: $ clang++ test.cpp

PCManFM in SID

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, Just a quick question - does anybody know where I can go to figure out the status of getting a new version of PCManFM? The version currently in SID is still pretty old and has some showstopper (won't start, crashes, etc. - these have been filed for some time but not fixed) bugs for those

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:36:50 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:28:27 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > Just a quick question - does anybody know where I can go to figure > > out the status of getting a new ve

Re: installare debian su macair

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:15:40 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Ciao Alessandro, > > Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2011 schrieb alessandro soprana: > > valdagno, 10.10.2011 > > > > ho un mac air da febbraio 2011 e vorrei installare debian. Mentre su > > altri notebook riesco ad installarlo su questo no

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: >> >> PCManFM Releases: >> >> 0.9.9 - August 2011 - this version works fine >> 0.9.8 (SID) - Oc

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:35:37 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 > "Sridhar M.A." wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > > wrote: > >> > >> PCMa

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:58:51 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:59:38 -0400, Burhan Hanoglu wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Camaleón > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:55:40 +0530, Linux Tyro wrote: > >> > >>> I am beginner in Linux and do another job. But I

Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:40:23 + (UTC) Cousin Stanley wrote: > Doug wrote: > > > > > The answer is to set up your Compose key. > > > > The following link might help > to learn how to set up the Compose key > > http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey > I just

Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Check out http://askubuntu.com/questions/29731/rebind-alt-key-to-win-using-setxkbmap it might give you some hints to solve your problem. Sorry for top posting, stupid droid email won't allow interspersed reply... -- rbmj Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote: >Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: >

Re: o/t ipod

2010-12-26 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:10:27 +0100 Peter Beck wrote: > On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 06:32 -0600, Ted Wager wrote: > > My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can > > transfer the music files on his ipod to mine ?..I only have Linux on my > > machines but can get access to a Wi

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:21:22 -0500 Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an > ima

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:50:19 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > I tried this and it successfully creates myfile.zip: > > find ./ -iname "*.jpg" -print | zip myfile -@ > > But it fails if there are spaces in the path or filename. How can I > make it work with spaces? > > Thanks > > -Rob > I think the

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:53:33 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > Rob Owens wrote: > > > I tried this and it successfully creates myfile.zip: > > > > > > find ./ -iname "*.jpg" -print | zip myfile -@ > > > > &g

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:02:48 -0500 Doug wrote: > On 01/11/2011 08:46 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:53:33 -0700 > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > >> Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > >>> Rob Owens wrote: > >>>

Re: Autorun installation CD

2011-01-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:32:12 +0200 Juha Tuuna wrote: > On 11.1.2011 11:41, Kousik Maiti wrote: > > Hi List, > > I want to create a CD that can run automatically on Linux system and start > > installation from a .jar file. Is it possible? I googled it but don't get > > any > > proper answer. > >

JACK configuration

2011-01-16 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi all, I am attempting to record audio on my laptop. To this end, i've installed Ardour/JACK. I have *finally* managed to get ALSA to work. However, I now have a problem - the sound that is wired into the Mic In jack on the front of the laptop will play back (so basically my laptop is funct

Re: JACK configuration

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:00:49 -0800 Bob McGowan wrote: > On 01/16/2011 11:15 AM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am attempting to record audio on my laptop. To this end, i've installed > > Ardour/JACK. I have *finally* managed to get ALSA to

Re: Why is Debian not secure by default?

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:04:32 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-23 07:29 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > > > After having brushed up on some technical aspects of security I would > > like to understand why Debian isn't secure be default. > > > > As we all know a lot of security breaches occur be

Re: help

2011-01-26 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:41:23 -0500 Padilla Juan Leon II wrote: > greetings ! > > i just installed my debian 5.0.7 in my laptop. > > i just want to install 3 things in my debian OS > > 1 google chrome > 2 skype > 3 adobe flash player > > i read some of the text in the web but i can't install a

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:20:52 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a > > terminal (command prompt) and typing: > > > > sudo aptitude insta

Re: help

2011-01-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:03:18 + Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2011 02:35:08 Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a terminal > > (command prompt) and typing: > > > > sudo aptitude install chromium-brows

ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello Everyone, So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work without bothering with alsa-driver-linuxant, or if I didn't know the correct google-foo to find a binary package for alsa-driver-linuxant that w

Re: ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:20:45 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. > First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work > without bothering with alsa-driver

Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:19:15 +0100 Alan Chandler wrote: > On 20/07/11 13:22, Dejan Ribič wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and > > password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every > > hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP Server set-up li

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:47:44 +1000 yudi v wrote: > Hi > > I need to write random data to a partition before encrypting it. > Suggested way is to use urandom: > > #dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 > > What is the use of operand "bs" in the following case? I see the above > command executed as fo

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:36:28 +1000 yudi v wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:47:44 +1000 > > yudi v wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I need to write random data to a partiti

Re: wicd

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:55:26 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-03 10:18:15 +1000, Charlie wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:45:05 -0400 "Mark Grieveson > > dg...@torfree.net" suggested this: > > > > >So, I looked and > > >found only the latch, which also had something that sort of seemed

ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi everyone, I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one broadcast by barnacle on my phone, but the problem is reproducible on any adhoc network), wicd appears to go through all of the steps to connect succe

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-06 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-05 09:42:11 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. > > Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one > > broadc

Boost sound volume?

2011-08-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, Is there a way to boost the system sound volume? Playing DVDs in VLC with the alsa, pulseaudio, and vlc volumes all maxed out is still about 30-40% of max volume in 'doze. I don't like pulseaudio, but for some reason skype doesn't work without it, and my family won't allow me to not hav

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max volumes > much, much lower than Windows for no special reason I know of. Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm starting certain applications, or force them

Re: [OT] plot execution flows from C/C++ sources

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:33:46 +0100 Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello all, > > [ maybe some programers out there... :) ] > > I recently stared working on a project for maintenance and new > developments on an existing huge code base of C/C++ > > It's quite a challenge for newcommers. > > D

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:06:19 +0200 Tomas Kral wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:07 +0200, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max > > > vol

GLX Missing

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello list, I am unable to get 3d graphics on my laptop. I've tried the standard reinstall xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-video-intel, dpkg-reconfigure, and then restart, but it hasn't worked. My video card: $ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Inte

Re: [SOLVED] GLX Missing

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
I figured out my issue. I was playing with OpenCL and it pulled in a bunch of nvidia stuff because it was selecting nvidia-libopencl1 by default. Then, when I was googling how to fix the video drivers I was blindly filtering all of the instructions through s/apt-get/aptitude/ and aptitude wasn't

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:14:23 + (GMT) Francois Cerbelle wrote: > Le Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet a écrit : > > On Wednesday 10 August 2011 17:53:26 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> if i'm not mistaken you can just go to single user mode on centos > >> by appending "1" or "sing

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:48:02 -0600 Aaron Toponce wrote: > > sulogin is easy enough to bypass. > > * Boot Live CD > * Mount / > * Edit /etc/inittab > * Comment out si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS > * Reboot into single user mode > > Much easer than chroots, or any of the other pr

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:02:57 +0200 Christoph Groth wrote: > Blair Mason writes: > > > Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, > > as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. > > Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any decent (modern features, >

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:41:35 +0200 Christoph Groth wrote: > "Robert Blair Mason Jr." writes: > > > Christoph Groth wrote: > > > > Will something like the following work? This works on any filesystem > > using standard unix permissions (such

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:01:05 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > I understand OSX doesn't help anyone here... perhaps someone could > request an implementation of this command in the mount source code? > It seems simple - just check if the filesystem has noowne

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:18:35 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: > I don't understand what is hard about this. I mean if you don't care > about security, just make sure the mount has a umask of 770 (or > whatever) and make an export, reload exports, and mount it from > wherever you want. > > What am I mis

How to set mailto application

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab page. Thanks, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: How to set mailto application

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:45:49 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link > handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab > page. > Nevermind, I figured it out. Apparently /usr/b

Re: Ugly appearence after upgrade

2011-09-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:32:27 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:47:46 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:57:13 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> I neither like gnome-shell in its current state (I tested GNOME > >> 3.0 in openSUSE and did not feel good with i

Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-08 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, I've googled some, but can't seem to find any active project providing FTP mounts. Currently I've installed curlftpfs, but cf wikipedia the project appears to be abandoned. Is there a new version or project that is still being developed upstream that anyone here knows about? Thanks, -

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:21:11 -0400 Chris Brennan wrote: > On 9/8/2011 11:06 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > > I've googled some, but can't seem to find any active project > > providing FTP mounts. Currently I've installed curlftpfs, but cf >

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:52:06 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:43:06 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > (...) > > > I do know that FTP doesn't use any encryption unless you use TLS, > > which the servers I'm connecting to appear to u

Re: OFF-TOPIC: HTML to send data out a certain port

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:56:36 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:32:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Yes, off-topic, but you folks are the brightest group with which I'm > > affiliated > > > > We're thinking of building a Debian-based web-server that offers up > > a "remote

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:13:25 +0200 Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 02/10/2011 18:36, John Hasler wrote: > > consul tores wrote: > > > > Lisi writes: > >> Maybe we should coin an adjective. USian perhaps? > > > > And you can be EUian. > > TERRAn? > (finalizing the spaceship thingy sitting in the gara

HD Data Recovery

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hey list, A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and they don't have any external backups, so I have to try and backup the data. BIOS POST revealed that the cause was a hard disk error. I swapped the drive in as a slave on another comp of mine and attempted to see if I could

Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:27:42 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:07:23 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and > > they don't have any external backups > > I am sick and

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-08 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:25:14 +0100 Richard wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:03:03 -0500 (CDT) > Blair Mason wrote: > > > Oct 8, 2011 11:52:04 AM, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying out LXDE, much less system load, very noticeable . > > > Is there a menu editor simila

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:55:52 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: > > > ... > > > > I don't want to provoke anyone or start a flame war, but why does > > the debian menu system still exist?  It h

Re: Making /tmp noexec

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:34:36 + teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > This is more of an F-MY-I question, but if the /tem dir is a separate > partition and your using a mount command in fstab, could you limit the > execute capabilities via umask? > > I would think umask=111 would set the d

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:20:21 -0500 john wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:26:52 + > Michal wrote: > > > On 19/11/10 05:37, Dan Serban wrote: > > > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't > > > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to > -

Re: Enquiry related to Debian Usage and Features.

2010-11-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:36:30 +0530 "Kambesh_Support ." wrote: > > Debian supports Java. I am planning to develop my software in Java and > install it in embedded OS. > > Does Debian supports full J2SE functions? If No, then can I install my own > JVM in debian. > If you want the official JVM,