Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

On Friday 26 August 2016 23:11:23 Perry E. Metzger wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:06:15 +0200 Frederic Marchal > > <frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com> wrote: > > On Friday 26 August 2016 11:04:04 Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > According to: > > > &g

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

On Friday 26 August 2016 11:04:04 Perry E. Metzger wrote: > According to: > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5696 > > Wheezy and Jessie are still vulnerable. The attack in question is > kind of bad (it allows blind injection of arbitrary data into > things like http

Re: How to VNC to active screen on remote system.

On Wednesday 24 February 2016 12:12:54 Javier Vasquez wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > ... > > What is the program that will connect to the current session on the remote > > system? I have used it before but I can't remember what it was. > >

Re: URGENTLY need help on using VPN

On Friday 11 September 2015 14:52:19 Li Wei wrote: > Thank Georgi Naplatanov and all those who reply! > > The Chinese firewall is sophisticated > and I have not been able to download > http://openvpn.net/howto.html > sent in attachment by kind users. I can encrypt the file and send it to you. I

Re: wired network connection has stopped working

On Friday 21 August 2015 22:07:27 tom arnall wrote: Greetings! About a year ago my wired modem connection stopped working. I can find nothing on google which helps. In dmesg there is: eth0: link is not ready Here is ifconfig output, in case it is useful for people trying to help me

Re: Changing the terminal character set

On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:52:33 Alex Naysmith wrote: I'm writing python scripts with the curses GUI and I need the CP437 character set. How can I change the character encoding in the XFCE terminal [v0.4.8] from UTF-8 to CP437 or IBM437? Alternatively, I did attempt to change the system

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

On Wednesday 24 June 2015 18:51:24 Jose Martinez wrote: NaCL -- Sodium Chloride -- common table salt. That just means you have to add your own!!:-D Actually, it stands for Native Client (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client). It is Google's attempt to re-invent javascript :-)

Re: Moving from 56k modem

On Friday 19 June 2015 09:24:34 Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:20:25 -0500 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Mike McClain wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:22:37PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Scarletdown wrote: How about a portable wireless hotspot device and

Re: Moving from 56k modem

On Friday 19 June 2015 11:01:25 Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 09:13:42AM +0200, Frederic Marchal wrote: On Friday 19 June 2015 09:24:34 Reco wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:20:25 -0500 Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Mike McClain wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2015

Re: systemd equivalent

On Saturday 13 June 2015 22:52:22 Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Brian wrote: You don't mean that, do you? After all, you do use its functionality for booting. :) Thanks for that. You may be right. BUT...hrrrmmm...just to show that I can be as reasonable as the next fellow,

Re: udev rule for my usb stick

On Wednesday 10 June 2015 18:39:11 Michael Soulier wrote: On 2015-06-09 4:22 PM, deloptes wrote: ls -a /dev/disk/by-id/ or uuid is an option if you want predictable name, no? I suppose, but I'd like to know why working through udev isn't working. Not every subsystem works. You use

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

On Friday 01 May 2015 08:28:26 Markus-Hermann Koch wrote: Hi folks! I would like to use Qt 5.4 for its QOpenGLWidget. However, Qt 5.4 is still stuck in experimental. Being a user I now seem to have several options: 2.) Grant root privileges to ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-1.6.0-8-online.run

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. I would like to lock the screen

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

Sorry for the very very late answer. That mail showed up as a new mail in my mail client! Frederic On Saturday 11 April 2015 11:19:02 Frederic Marchal wrote: On Tuesday 03 March 2015 20:29:53 Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I have an issue with a (client's) large (13T) filesystem

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

On Tuesday 03 March 2015 20:29:53 Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I have an issue with a (client's) large (13T) filesystem, that fills up every now and then and nobody's quite sure what's doing it. I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. df only gives the total for

Re: Machine hangs at boot

On Monday 15 December 2014 14:37:10 German wrote: My machine hangs at boot, so i'd like someone to take a look at my log. Thanks http://pastebin.com/3crkJgnE Let's try another wild guess. sdb looks corrupted or not initialized [2.147780] sdb: unknown partition table Can you unplug

Re: Machine hangs at boot

Frederic Marchal frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com wrote: On Monday 15 December 2014 14:37:10 German wrote: My machine hangs at boot, so i'd like someone to take a look at my log. Thanks http://pastebin.com/3crkJgnE Let's try another wild guess. sdb looks corrupted or not initialized

Re: Machine hangs at boot

other peripheral is behaving strangely. Frederic Frederic Marchal frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com wrote: On Monday 15 December 2014 15:40:23 German wrote: Do you refer to SDB as 500GB disk? It looks so: [2.128658] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST500LM021-1KJ15 0001 PQ

Re: Machine hangs at boot

On Monday 15 December 2014 16:14:09 German wrote: SDB is ext4. It is just a disk I use for data. Under normal circumstances, when system operating normally it isn't mounted for some reason and it gets mounted when I just click on it in LXDE. I guess that's why it's not initialized LXDE can't