Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:37:58 -0700, Joseph wrote: I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Which desktop are you using? Does it have an auto-mounter installed by default? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live pgpQl4zwFl6kO.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] moving over to nouveau drivers
I recently set up Gnome 3.14 with basic wayland support on one of my thinkpads. This thinkpad uses intel graphics ... my main desktop comes with a Nvidia GeForce GT 430 and I want to test wayland there as well. As far as I researched one has to use the opensource nouveau drivers them, right? I followed the howto at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nouveau ... changing USE-flag, compiling new kernel, re-emerging stuff ... Now I have a plain Gnome-session running but for some reason I only get one of my 2 monitors running. xrandr and X11 detect both monitors, but I can't enable the 2nd one. I tried to edit or remove xorg.conf. gnome-control-center shows both but enabling the 2nd simply doesn't work. This is all without trying to use wayland! Just plain gnome ... I even tried the kernel-options to enable the HDMI .. hmm Which logs may I provide here to help you help me? ;-) Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] moving over to nouveau drivers [solved]
Am 15.12.2014 um 11:03 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: gnome-control-center shows both but enabling the 2nd simply doesn't work. This is all without trying to use wayland! Just plain gnome ... I even tried the kernel-options to enable the HDMI .. hmm I played with stuff like xrandr --output HDMI-1 --right-of DVI-I-1 ... this enabled the monitor ... and then somehow also the gnome-control-center settings started working! I tested a reboot, looks good so far! Now on to wayland stuff ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting
On 12/15/14 09:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:37:58 -0700, Joseph wrote: I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Which desktop are you using? Does it have an auto-mounter installed by default? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live I'm using XFCE4 and everytime I insert a USB with FAT or ext2/3/4 the icon pops up on a desktop but I mount them manually. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/15/14 09:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:37:58 -0700, Joseph wrote: I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Which desktop are you using? Does it have an auto-mounter installed by default? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live I'm using XFCE4 and everytime I insert a USB with FAT or ext2/3/4 the icon pops up on a desktop but I mount them manually. -- Joseph I remember asking on this list for instructions on how to auto-mount removable drives some time ago as well. Here's a copy of the rely I got. Hope this helps. -- From: Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org xfce-base/thunar needs to have USE=udev enabled and xfce-extra/thunar-volman must be installed i don't see thunar-volman in your list there futhermore authorization from polkit/consolekit must be working, so you must see 'active = TRUE' line when you run `ck-list-sessions` in your Xfce's Terminal as a normal user, see this thread (first post of it): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html and like said, xfce4-mount-plugin is irrelevant, and `mount` command shouldn't be used at all for udisks maintained removable devices, instead `udisksctl mount` should be used as a normal user if you really want to mount from commandline
[gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish
Hi, this question is not related to a fully fledged, big local area network with DMZs and such. Even the word firewall seems to be a little too huge and mighty in this context to me. The network consists of a PC, which is connected to a FritzBox (cable, no Wifi/WLAN), which connects to the ISP (internet) and (same adress range) to a embedded system (eth1) There are two additional embedded systems, both on a separate interface (eth over usb: usb0 usb1). I want to block (DROP or REJECT) the access to certain sites (the noise which is produced mostly by sites, which all exclusively only want my best: ads, trackers, analysts and so on...) I tried different tools: fwbuilder, which locks up either itsself or my rulesset...I had to reboot and Shorewall, which definitely is a great toola little too great tool and much more capable as I am... ;) I am sure that the problems are mostly not the problems of the tools but mine. Is there any simple straight forward tool to just block accesses to certain sites? Best regards, Meino
Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish
On 15 December 2014 at 17:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any simple straight forward tool to just block accesses to certain sites? Hi, I'm absolutely a noob or even less about this subject, but lately I stumbled into a thread on the forum that might be interesting to you: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-999422-highlight-.html -- Emanuele
Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish
Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com [14-12-15 18:24]: On 15 December 2014 at 17:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any simple straight forward tool to just block accesses to certain sites? Hi, I'm absolutely a noob or even less about this subject, but lately I stumbled into a thread on the forum that might be interesting to you: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-999422-highlight-.html -- Emanuele Hi Emanuele, interesting stuff...thank you! But it does not work as exspected: With wireshark I still see the crypted traffic for example to secure.informaction com and s3-1.amazonaws.com by starting firefox and doing nothing more (homepage is a blank page...). So I need bigger weapons... Any other idea? Best regards, Meino
Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish
On 15/12/2014 18:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this question is not related to a fully fledged, big local area network with DMZs and such. Even the word firewall seems to be a little too huge and mighty in this context to me. The network consists of a PC, which is connected to a FritzBox (cable, no Wifi/WLAN), which connects to the ISP (internet) and (same adress range) to a embedded system (eth1) There are two additional embedded systems, both on a separate interface (eth over usb: usb0 usb1). I want to block (DROP or REJECT) the access to certain sites (the noise which is produced mostly by sites, which all exclusively only want my best: ads, trackers, analysts and so on...) I tried different tools: fwbuilder, which locks up either itsself or my rulesset...I had to reboot and Shorewall, which definitely is a great toola little too great tool and much more capable as I am... ;) I am sure that the problems are mostly not the problems of the tools but mine. Is there any simple straight forward tool to just block accesses to certain sites? to do it network-wide: squid to do it on a per-pc per-browser basis: there's a large variety of firefox plugins to chose from that will block this and allow that. It seems to me this is the better approach as you want to stop your browser chatting with sites who only have your best interest at heart :-) Either way, the list of black and white lists gets very big very quick, so chose your tool carefully. Try a bunch and pick one that makes sense to you, bonus points if it comes with a community-supported blacklist you can drop in, maintained by people whose POV matches your own. You don't want a classic firewall for this; firewalls are mostly built to block based on address and port, this is not how you solve your problem -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting
On 12/15/14 18:17, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Joseph [1]syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/15/14 09:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:37:58 -0700, Joseph wrote: I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Which desktop are you using? Does it have an auto-mounter installed by default? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live I'm using XFCE4 and everytime I insert a USB with FAT or ext2/3/4 the icon pops up on a desktop but I mount them manually. -- Joseph  I remember asking on this list for instructions on how to auto-mount removable drives some time ago as well. Here's a copy of the rely I got. Hope this helps. -- From: Samuli Suominen [2]ssuomi...@gentoo.org Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives To: [3]gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org xfce-base/thunar needs to have USE=udev enabled and xfce-extra/thunar-volman must be installed i don't see thunar-volman in your list there futhermore authorization from polkit/consolekit must be working, so you must see 'active = TRUE' line when you run `ck-list-sessions` in your Xfce's Terminal as a normal user, see this thread (first post of it): [4]http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html and like said, xfce4-mount-plugin is irrelevant, and `mount` command shouldn't be used at all for udisks maintained removable devices, instead `udisksctl mount` should be used as a normal user if you really want to mount from commandline I'm not after auto mounting, I just want the USB icon to appear on XFCE desktop when I insert USB stick. I mount them USB by right clicking on the icon and select mount But for some reason or another the FAT32 is not showing up. -- Joseph
[gentoo-user] unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?
I confess I've never thought much about why /tmp exists, but today I was inconvenienced when an end-user utility (uudeview) ran out of space on /tmp while doing an ordinary end-user task processing very large end-user files. Why is an end-user program using a system directory like /tmp in the first place? I suspect that the need for /tmp is now gone, but I'm prepared to be wrong :)
Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting
Am Sonntag, 14.12.2014 um 22:37 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Here comes the the magic formula, IIRC ;) Your user has to be in group plugdev. udisks USE flag for xfce-base/thunar must be set. The USB-device may NOT have a config line in /etc/fstab. To enable/disable automounting look at thunars menu: edit - settings - advanced-settings - volume-management (checkbox) Regards wabe
Re: [gentoo-user] unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?
I confess I've never thought much about why /tmp exists, but today I was inconvenienced when an end-user utility (uudeview) ran out of space on /tmp while doing an ordinary end-user task processing very large end-user files. Why is an end-user program using a system directory like /tmp in the first place? I suspect that the need for /tmp is now gone, but I'm prepared to be wrong :) Because /home may be on a NFS mount, with slow access and a disk usage quota. :) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council
Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting
On 12/16/14 01:37, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 14.12.2014 um 22:37 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Here comes the the magic formula, IIRC ;) Your user has to be in group plugdev. Done. udisks USE flag for xfce-base/thunar must be set. Yes, it was. The USB-device may NOT have a config line in /etc/fstab. Correct, done. To enable/disable automounting look at thunars menu: edit - settings - advanced-settings - volume-management (checkbox) Yes, it is/was enabled. When I insert USB stick formatted as FAT or ext3/4 the icon automatically appears on my desktop. When I insert USB stick formatted as FAT32, nothing happens. That is what is puzzling me. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?
As I recall, tmp was often a small, fast disk drive, compared to the slow lumbering washing machines that most data resided on. Several sites I recall had a couple of head per track drives; one would be for the swap partitions and the other was for temporary stuff that was being worked on. After the edits or whatever were done, the user or the system would move the stuff off of /tmp and back to the main disks. Because users sometimes forgot to remove their stuff from tmp, various utilities (such as tmpwatch) would reap old files on a regular basis. One consultant I knew didn't trust UNIX because he put files in /tmp and was astonished when they were not there several days later. These days it is more common to have /tmp be reserved for smaller system stuff, and to use /usr/tmp or /var/tmp for lager user files. Admins can set the environment variable TMP or TMPDIR in the login profiles if necessary. It hangs on because too many programs and scripts assume it is available. -- Old time *nix fart. G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: I confess I've never thought much about why /tmp exists, but today I was inconvenienced when an end-user utility (uudeview) ran out of space on /tmp while doing an ordinary end-user task processing very large end-user files. Why is an end-user program using a system directory like /tmp in the first place? I suspect that the need for /tmp is now gone, but I'm prepared to be wrong :) Because /home may be on a NFS mount, with slow access and a disk usage quota. :) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council -- -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-12-16 03:43]: On 15/12/2014 18:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this question is not related to a fully fledged, big local area network with DMZs and such. Even the word firewall seems to be a little too huge and mighty in this context to me. The network consists of a PC, which is connected to a FritzBox (cable, no Wifi/WLAN), which connects to the ISP (internet) and (same adress range) to a embedded system (eth1) There are two additional embedded systems, both on a separate interface (eth over usb: usb0 usb1). I want to block (DROP or REJECT) the access to certain sites (the noise which is produced mostly by sites, which all exclusively only want my best: ads, trackers, analysts and so on...) I tried different tools: fwbuilder, which locks up either itsself or my rulesset...I had to reboot and Shorewall, which definitely is a great toola little too great tool and much more capable as I am... ;) I am sure that the problems are mostly not the problems of the tools but mine. Is there any simple straight forward tool to just block accesses to certain sites? to do it network-wide: squid to do it on a per-pc per-browser basis: there's a large variety of firefox plugins to chose from that will block this and allow that. It seems to me this is the better approach as you want to stop your browser chatting with sites who only have your best interest at heart :-) Either way, the list of black and white lists gets very big very quick, so chose your tool carefully. Try a bunch and pick one that makes sense to you, bonus points if it comes with a community-supported blacklist you can drop in, maintained by people whose POV matches your own. You don't want a classic firewall for this; firewalls are mostly built to block based on address and port, this is not how you solve your problem -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com Hi Alan, thanks for reply! :) actually the thing is: There is a plugin called NoScript which constantly accesses secure.informaction.com, which is the author of this plugin. I tried a lot to block that access from inside firefox but did not find a way to do so (read: _I_ did not find... ;) If you know a plugin for firefox which is able to block accesses from all other plugins to certain sites of the internet I would be happy to check that out. I tried to block the accesses via iptable rules which DROP/REJECT the name and the IP-address of that site...no chance. The IP has not changed of that site... Wireshark still reports traffic to and from that site and following the TCP stream with wireshark shows, that the traffic has encrypted contents. The other access, which origin I haven't located exactly yet (its origin is in firefox (a plugin I think), is to s3-1.amazonaws.com. I also want to block this. Please what is the plugin of the large variety of plugins, which is able to block access of all other plugins to customer defined sites? Thank you very much in advance for any help. Best regards, Meino
[gentoo-user] Re: Something firewall-ish
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:02:40 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: actually the thing is: There is a plugin called NoScript which constantly accesses secure.informaction.com, which is the author of this plugin. I tried a lot to block that access from inside firefox but did not find a way to do so (read: _I_ did not find... ;) http://hackademix.net/2010/07/28/abe-patrols-the-routes-to-your-routers/ explains the connection and how to disable it in NoScript's options.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something firewall-ish
»Q« boxc...@gmx.net [14-12-16 05:28]: On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:02:40 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: actually the thing is: There is a plugin called NoScript which constantly accesses secure.informaction.com, which is the author of this plugin. I tried a lot to block that access from inside firefox but did not find a way to do so (read: _I_ did not find... ;) http://hackademix.net/2010/07/28/abe-patrols-the-routes-to-your-routers/ explains the connection and how to disable it in NoScript's options. Hi Q, very interesting page...thank you! Its the stuff I like ;) What is the difference between NoScript saying the access to secure.informaction.com is completly anonymous and anyone else stating this? Since the access is encrypted I cannot check its contents. And how is it possible to send back an answer, if my IP-address isn't offered (that is: completly anonymous)? Do you know anything about the other address and its origin: s3-1.amazonaws.com ? It has something to do with a cloud service of Amazon... But what could be the origin of this one ... ? Best regards, Meino
[gentoo-user] bruning pictures (jpeg) to DVD
I have bunch of picture in different directories. What is the best way to burn them to DVD-R so I can play them in DVD? I've tried to download Nero but I'm getting an error: -2014-12-15 21:34:30-- http://ftp5.usw.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-4.0.0.0b-x86_64.rpm Resolving ftp5.usw.nero.com... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address ‘ftp5.usw.nero.com’ -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting
Am Montag, 15.12.2014 um 20:02 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: On 12/16/14 01:37, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 14.12.2014 um 22:37 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Here comes the the magic formula, IIRC ;) Your user has to be in group plugdev. Done. udisks USE flag for xfce-base/thunar must be set. Yes, it was. The USB-device may NOT have a config line in /etc/fstab. Correct, done. To enable/disable automounting look at thunars menu: edit - settings - advanced-settings - volume-management (checkbox) Yes, it is/was enabled. When I insert USB stick formatted as FAT or ext3/4 the icon automatically appears on my desktop. When I insert USB stick Is this the same stick? formatted as FAT32, nothing happens. That is what is puzzling me. That's strange. Can you mount the stick by hand? When I insert a FAT32 Stick the following message appears in dmesg (note that the order and content differs from your dmesg, but I don't know if this is important:) [49627.224307] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci [49627.349351] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=1307, idProduct=0165 [49627.349361] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [49627.349368] usb 1-5: Product: USB Mass Storage Device [49627.349373] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: USBest Technology [49627.349378] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 080920097d039b [49627.349797] usb-storage 1-5:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [49627.350022] scsi19 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0 [49628.352252] scsi 19:0:0:0: Direct-Access 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [49628.352829] sd 19:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg11 type 0 [49628.354004] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] 3948544 512-byte logical blocks: (2.02 GB/1.88 GiB) [49628.354610] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Write Protect is off [49628.354618] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 [49628.355238] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Asking for cache data failed [49628.355244] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Assuming drive cache: write through [49628.484320] sdj: sdj1 [49628.487921] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Attached SCSI removable disk Command p in fdisk shows: Disk /dev/sdj: 1,9 GiB, 2021654528 bytes, 3948544 sectors Units: Sektoren of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x000d4153 Gerät Boot Start Ende Blocks Id System /dev/sdj1 * 63 3948543 1974240+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Do you also have the FS-Id set to c? Regards wabe
[gentoo-user] Re: Something firewall-ish
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:46:17 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: »Q« boxc...@gmx.net [14-12-16 05:28]: On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:02:40 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: actually the thing is: There is a plugin called NoScript which constantly accesses secure.informaction.com, which is the author of this plugin. I tried a lot to block that access from inside firefox but did not find a way to do so (read: _I_ did not find... ;) http://hackademix.net/2010/07/28/abe-patrols-the-routes-to-your-routers/ explains the connection and how to disable it in NoScript's options. Hi Q, very interesting page...thank you! Its the stuff I like ;) What is the difference between NoScript saying the access to secure.informaction.com is completly anonymous and anyone else stating this? Since the access is encrypted I cannot check its contents. And how is it possible to send back an answer, if my IP-address isn't offered (that is: completly anonymous)? I'm sorry, I don't know. I don't use NoScript -- I just remembered reading that the NoScript author had blogged about that connection so was able to google the page.
Re: [gentoo-user] bruning pictures (jpeg) to DVD
Am Montag, 15.12.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I have bunch of picture in different directories. What is the best way to burn them to DVD-R so I can play them in DVD? I've tried to If you wanna play them as a slideshow on a normal DVD-Video player you can use media-video/dvd-slideshow. If you just wanna burn the pictures on DVD or CD you can use app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools or if you prefer a GUI you can use app-cdr/xcdroast. There are also k3b and brasero. But they need a lot of kde resp. gnome3 stuff. I'm using no optical media since a few years, because they are not really reliable. So I'm not up to date regarding burning software. Regards wabe
Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 07:14:26PM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote But it does not work as exspected: With wireshark I still see the crypted traffic for example to secure.informaction com and s3-1.amazonaws.com by starting firefox and doing nothing more (homepage is a blank page...). So I need bigger weapons... First, get the IP addresses... [d531][waltdnes][~] nslookup s3-1.amazonaws.com Server: 208.67.222.222 Address:208.67.222.222#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: s3-1.amazonaws.com Address: 54.231.1.0 [d531][waltdnes][~] nslookup secure.informaction.com Server: 208.67.222.222 Address:208.67.222.222#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: secure.informaction.com Address: 82.103.140.40 Name: secure.informaction.com Address: 82.103.140.42 Name: secure.informaction.com Address: 69.195.141.179 Name: secure.informaction.com Address: 69.195.141.178 With that info in hand, add the following at the top of your iptables OUTPUT chain... -A OUTPUT -d 69.195.141.178/31 -j DROP -A OUTPUT -d 82.103.140.40/30 -j DROP -A OUTPUT -d 54.231.1.0/32 - j DROP The first one drops 69.195.141.178 and 69.195.141.179. The second one drops 82.103.140.40, 82.103.140.41, 82.103.140.42, and 82.103.140.43. The third one drops 54.231.1.0. The Amazon cloud service covers 54.230.0.0/15. If s3-1.amazonaws.com is dynamic, you may have to block that entire range. For those of you who are interested, I'm attaching a copy of my /var/lib/iptables/rules-save which is tweaked for my LAN. Note the following... * this is a paranoid ruleset for general client end-users only. It will *NOT* work for a server * the 192.168.x.y addresses are for my internal LAN * the 169.254.0.0/16 range is for my HDHomerun OTA TV tuner * the FECESBOOK rules block Facebook, coming and going. Firefox spins its wheels for several seconds Connecting to facebook.com, before giving up. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications rules-save.gz Description: Binary data
Re: [gentoo-user] bruning pictures (jpeg) to DVD
On 12/16/14 06:07, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Montag, 15.12.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I have bunch of picture in different directories. What is the best way to burn them to DVD-R so I can play them in DVD? I've tried to If you wanna play them as a slideshow on a normal DVD-Video player you can use media-video/dvd-slideshow. If you just wanna burn the pictures on DVD or CD you can use app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools or if you prefer a GUI you can use app-cdr/xcdroast. There are also k3b and brasero. But they need a lot of kde resp. gnome3 stuff. I'm using no optical media since a few years, because they are not really reliable. So I'm not up to date regarding burning software. Regards wabe I used imagination already had installed on my box and burn a dvd using DeVeDe -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something firewall-ish
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 05:46:17 AM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: »Q« boxc...@gmx.net [14-12-16 05:28]: On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:02:40 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: actually the thing is: There is a plugin called NoScript which constantly accesses secure.informaction.com, which is the author of this plugin. I tried a lot to block that access from inside firefox but did not find a way to do so (read: _I_ did not find... ;) http://hackademix.net/2010/07/28/abe-patrols-the-routes-to-your-routers/ explains the connection and how to disable it in NoScript's options. Hi Q, very interesting page...thank you! Its the stuff I like ;) What is the difference between NoScript saying the access to secure.informaction.com is completly anonymous and anyone else stating this? Since the access is encrypted I cannot check its contents. And how is it possible to send back an answer, if my IP-address isn't offered (that is: completly anonymous)? For any connection between 2 computers, both will always know the IP address of the other. (when using TCP/IP) All that site does, according to the blogpost, is reply with your IP is: xx There are other sites that offer a similar service and it's commonly used when you need to know the external IP. (Dyndns-scripts use it as well) Do you know anything about the other address and its origin: s3-1.amazonaws.com ? It has something to do with a cloud service of Amazon... But what could be the origin of this one ... ? Any plugin you have installed. I've got that blocked in my firewall due to a large amount of SSH accesses in my logs. -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish
On 16/12/2014 06:02, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-12-16 03:43]: On 15/12/2014 18:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this question is not related to a fully fledged, big local area network with DMZs and such. Even the word firewall seems to be a little too huge and mighty in this context to me. The network consists of a PC, which is connected to a FritzBox (cable, no Wifi/WLAN), which connects to the ISP (internet) and (same adress range) to a embedded system (eth1) There are two additional embedded systems, both on a separate interface (eth over usb: usb0 usb1). I want to block (DROP or REJECT) the access to certain sites (the noise which is produced mostly by sites, which all exclusively only want my best: ads, trackers, analysts and so on...) I tried different tools: fwbuilder, which locks up either itsself or my rulesset...I had to reboot and Shorewall, which definitely is a great toola little too great tool and much more capable as I am... ;) I am sure that the problems are mostly not the problems of the tools but mine. Is there any simple straight forward tool to just block accesses to certain sites? to do it network-wide: squid to do it on a per-pc per-browser basis: there's a large variety of firefox plugins to chose from that will block this and allow that. It seems to me this is the better approach as you want to stop your browser chatting with sites who only have your best interest at heart :-) Either way, the list of black and white lists gets very big very quick, so chose your tool carefully. Try a bunch and pick one that makes sense to you, bonus points if it comes with a community-supported blacklist you can drop in, maintained by people whose POV matches your own. You don't want a classic firewall for this; firewalls are mostly built to block based on address and port, this is not how you solve your problem -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com Hi Alan, thanks for reply! :) actually the thing is: There is a plugin called NoScript which constantly accesses secure.informaction.com, which is the author of this plugin. I tried a lot to block that access from inside firefox but did not find a way to do so (read: _I_ did not find... ;) If you know a plugin for firefox which is able to block accesses from all other plugins to certain sites of the internet I would be happy to check that out. I don't know of a plugin that specifically does that; I do know that there are Firefox plugins for just about anything you could imagine, that's why I made the suggestion I tried to block the accesses via iptable rules which DROP/REJECT the name and the IP-address of that site...no chance. The IP has not changed of that site... Wireshark still reports traffic to and from that site and following the TCP stream with wireshark shows, that the traffic has encrypted contents. That indicates something wrong with your iptables rules. iptables works at the lowest level of the network stack (very little if anything can bypass it) and wireshark works by reading the network interface directly in promiscuous mode. The traffic you see probably doesn't have a iptables rule to catch it. There are 4 addresses for that domain name, did you incluce them all in the rule? # dig secure.informaction.com +short 82.103.140.42 82.103.140.40 69.195.141.179 69.195.141.178 The other access, which origin I haven't located exactly yet (its origin is in firefox (a plugin I think), is to s3-1.amazonaws.com. I also want to block this. Please what is the plugin of the large variety of plugins, which is able to block access of all other plugins to customer defined sites? As I said above, I don't track plugins too closely, so I don't know. But someone else on this list will, lots of knowledgeable people around here :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] bruning pictures (jpeg) to DVD
On 16/12/2014 06:48, Joseph wrote: I have bunch of picture in different directories. What is the best way to burn them to DVD-R so I can play them in DVD? I've tried to download Nero but I'm getting an error: -2014-12-15 21:34:30-- http://ftp5.usw.nero.com/software/NeroLINUX/nerolinux-4.0.0.0b-x86_64.rpm Resolving ftp5.usw.nero.com... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address ‘ftp5.usw.nero.com’ That host does not exist in DNS. You are using an outdated link, so Google more to find a current one. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?
On 16/12/2014 02:17, walt wrote: I confess I've never thought much about why /tmp exists, but today I was inconvenienced when an end-user utility (uudeview) ran out of space on /tmp while doing an ordinary end-user task processing very large end-user files. Why is an end-user program using a system directory like /tmp in the first place? I suspect that the need for /tmp is now gone, but I'm prepared to be wrong :) /tmp was always intended to be used exactly the way you are using it: yes, it is a system directory because it's located in / but you have permissions to use it. The mode is 1777 so everyone can read/write/execute the contents but it's also sticky (the 1) so only you can delete what you put there. It's a general-use scratch pad area that everyone can use safely, unfortunately in these days of huge cheap disks some apps abuse it by writing gigantic files there and you run out of space. How have you set /tmp up? Is it on-disk or a tmpfs? You migght need to make it bigger. /tmp is still very much in use and very much needed, it isn't going anywhere soon. The FHS has something interesting to say about /tmp, along the lines of: A general use scratch pad area where files written are not expected to survive successive invocations of the program that wrote them. That's interesting as it means the sysadmin can delete everything in /tmp at any time for any reason, and all apps will continue to work just fine as if they had not been deleted at all :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
