Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: Also, someone said that it was possible to encrypt using multiple passphrases using dm-crypt. That was me. To be correct: I wrote that with LUKS (which is based on dm-crypt) it is possible to use multiple keys (a key may be a passphrase or

[gentoo-user] xrandr: Intel G965 and HDTV woes

2008-06-25 Thread Bob
I've bought a shiny new htpc that I was hoping would just work with Linux. Sadly it doesn't. Before I post a long and rambling diatribe, does anyone know how to run xrandr remotely (since I just get a blank screen on the hdtv)? I tried over tunnelled ssh and just got the local (my laptop's) X

Re: [gentoo-user] xrandr: Intel G965 and HDTV woes

2008-06-25 Thread bzk0711
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:47:12 +0100 Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... # xrandr -display :0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Can't open display :0 I'm guessing this requires me to somehow open access to the X server. I set 'DisallowTCP=false' in

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from the loop-aes site) to compile

[gentoo-user] DVD drive firmware version

2008-06-25 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how I can find the firmware version in my Lite-On DVD drive? I have an .exe file with the latest version. Impossible to use it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD drive firmware version

2008-06-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how I can find the firmware version in my Lite-On DVD drive? I have an .exe file with the latest version. Impossible to use it? cdrecord -inq Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD drive firmware version

2008-06-25 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how I can find the firmware version in my Lite-On DVD drive? I have an .exe file with the latest version. Impossible to use it? cdrecord -inq Jörg Thank you, that works great. How would you upgrade the firmware? Maybe boot to a DOS disc? - Grant --

[gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Grant
Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick script for this I would really appreciate it. I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't already exist in dir2 with a slightly different filename. The dir1 files are named like a-1.jpg and the dir2 files are named

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] | Perhaps they appear as kernel modules? I'm just guessing. I think that is how they are supposed to appear, but I can't seem to get them to

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD drive firmware version

2008-06-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrecord -inq Jörg Thank you, that works great. How would you upgrade the firmware? Maybe boot to a DOS disc? Sorry, this is where I cannot help with LiteON drives. There may be code for DOS but it it not OSS. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant asks: Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick script for this I would really appreciate it. Whipped. Be sure to test it, because I did not :) Remove the echo statement when you are sure it works. I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Grant wrote: Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick script for this I would really appreciate it. I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't already exist in dir2 with a slightly different filename. The dir1 files are named

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Grant
Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick script for this I would really appreciate it. I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't already exist in dir2 with a slightly different filename. The dir1 files are named like a-1.jpg and the dir2 files are

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant asks: Thanks guys, can you tell me how to execute this? Put it in a file and './file' I think? Should I have special stuff at the top of the file? Yes, a '#!/bin/bash', it you want top have thsi as a script. You need to make it executable, too: chmod +x file But you can also leave

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Grant wrote: Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick script for this I would really appreciate it. I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't already exist in dir2 with a slightly different filename. The dir1 files are

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Grant
Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick script for this I would really appreciate it. I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't already exist in dir2 with a slightly different filename. The dir1 files are named like a-1.jpg and the dir2 files

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant asks: cd dir1 for i in *jpg do j = basename $i .jpg cp -u ${j}.jpg dir2/${j}_original.jpg done 'cp -u' works around the messy problem of checking if the destination file exists [...] I put the above script in a file, added the appropriate header, issued chmod,

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Walters: | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even | weaker algorithms can protect your data against laptop thieves. That's more than a rumor.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Be careful not to use forks but only official code. All known forks are full of bugs. In special: they come with extremely buggy mkisofs variants and they all have incomplete and broken DVD support (because the working original DVD support

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Walters: I might try LUKS.  Does it have support for multi-key encryption?  How about random key encryption? Hmm, didn't I mention this? Yes to both. See also http://luks.endorphin.org. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even | weaker algorithms can protect your data against laptop thieves. You had better

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would keep 15 million modern PCs busy for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Grant
cd dir1 for i in *jpg do j = basename $i .jpg cp -u ${j}.jpg dir2/${j}_original.jpg done 'cp -u' works around the messy problem of checking if the destination file exists [...] I put the above script in a file, added the appropriate header, issued chmod, and when I

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD drive firmware version

2008-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Grant wrote: Does anyone know how I can find the firmware version in my Lite-On DVD drive? I have an .exe file with the latest version. Impossible to use it? - Grant http://forum.rpc1.org/index.php usually freedos works fine for flashing. For some burners linux

[gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio CD's. It still works fine, data CD's work alright and various programs manage to gather useful information

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sebastian Wiesner wrote: | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 | | | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], | | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even |

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use | themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of the | GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would keep 15 |

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Grant wrote: This: j = basename $i .jpg should be more like this: j=$( basename $i .jpg ) Or: j=${i%.jpg} That is, there must be no whitespace around the '='. And in order to set j to the result of a command, use $( command ) or `

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the | key of the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's | assumptions, would keep 15

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: | Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they | | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the | | key of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg crashing when PC wake up from suspend-to-ram

2008-06-25 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Wael Nasreddine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:48:29PM +0200: Hey guys, When my PC wakes up from suspend-to-ram, X crashes, my video card is an intel 945GM. In ubuntu it works, I tried using Ubuntu's hal-info folder and I patched my Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio CD's. It still works fine, data CD's work alright and

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 22:25:18 Are you a cryptology expert? Are you then? The only thing that cryptography attempts to do is reduce the **probability** of cracking the key and gaining access to the data as low as possible. No news. That's, why

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: | This is the point where I start to ask for a citation and stop | listening to theoretical possibilities and things that might | possibly could be. Unless of course the exact meaning of phrases | like three hundred thousand million years has a

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 06/25/2008 Uwe Thiem([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
Alan McKinnon wrote: Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Don't get smart with me, jackass. Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you admitted to? You're a fucking idiot. Welcome to my ignore list. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Sebastian Wiesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 22:25:18 Are you a cryptology expert? Are you then? I doubt that either of you are cryptology experts. I've known a few, and I am a crypto-expert, who

[gentoo-user] Security of ciphers.

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
I've been reading this thread in the archives, on loop-aes and then the security of AES. I hate to jump on the bandwagon, so before I do, I will state that I *am* a crypto-expert, and have worked for the several government entities in the US. I am not at liberty to tell you which ones. Mr.

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Don't get smart with me, jackass. Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you admitted to? You're a

Re: [gentoo-user] PEACE!!!

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:51:53 -0400 Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Don't get smart with me, jackass. Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you admitted to? You're a

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Jason Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 23:53:23 The only thing that cryptography attempts to do is reduce the **probability** of cracking the key and gaining access to the data as low as possible. No news. That's, why cryptology defines security not as being

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:17:36 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Jason Rivard wrote: Wait for my private mail, Mr. Walters. I wouldn't bother with a private mail Jason. Tomorrow Chris will calm down, take a deep breath and probably contribute to the list again. It pretty much always works that way. Maybe he's quick to anger.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner instead of firefox in

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either firefox or xulrunner.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:46:44 -0700 James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin is no

[gentoo-user] 答复: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-25 Thread Zhou Rui
Finally, I emerged madwifi-ng and the WLAN card works. Add if I do the cmd manually: # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start the interface can get IP address from dhcp normally. But when I add the net. ath0 to the runlevel default and reboot, it cannot obtain the IP information with dhcpcd... That means I

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:08 -0400 Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original question was: Does anyone know how to compile the extra-ciphers package that you can find on the loop-aes SourceForge site. The following works here: 1) ebuild `equery w loop-aes` unpack 2) cd

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
Some (and only some) multimedia audio broke in the last few of updates on two of my systems with cmi chipsets - I had to select IEC958 Monitor before I got sound back. Might be the same thing. and no, I am not using digital output. If this doesnt help you, might help someone else as it was a

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:42:47 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there a little known and unused but very useful command that already does this? This type of usage often comes up on mailing lists and invariably someone mentions it after 20 posts or so, but I can never

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg crashing when PC wake up from suspend-to-ram

2008-06-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
Try tuxonice instead of the in-kernel suspend - never been able to get in-kernel to work on any of my systems. Other than ToI and gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r5, the software versions are the same You are using sabayon? - tried their mailing lists? BillK On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 22:57 +0200, Wael

Re: [gentoo-user] My last words on cryptology and cryptography.

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sebastian Wiesner wrote: | Jason Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 23:53:23 [snip] | A OTP cannot be broken using brute force, so the term perfectly secure | fits here, imho, at least a bit ;) A OTP cipher would be

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:08 -0400 | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | My original question was: Does anyone know how to compile the | extra-ciphers package that you can find on the loop-aes SourceForge | site. | |

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:30:25 -0400 Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The following works here: | | 1) ebuild `equery w loop-aes` unpack | | 2) cd $PORTDIR/sys-fs/loop-aes-version/work/loop-AES-version/ | | 3) make EXTRA_CIPHERS=y | | 4) cd ../../ | | 5) touch .compiled | | 6)

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread Mark Shields
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Yoav Luft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio CD's. It still works fine, data

re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-25 Thread Zhou Rui
Finally, I emerged madwifi-ng and the WLAN card works. Add if I do the cmd manually: # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start the interface can get IP address from dhcp normally. But when I add the net. ath0 to the runlevel default and reboot, it cannot obtain the IP information with dhcpcd... That means I

[gentoo-user] openoffice dictionaries

2008-06-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is there are way to use the proper openoffice dictionaries in OO? 'eselect' does not offer any alternatives to the myspell dictionaries and there is no relevant USE flag. As well as forcing OO to use myspell only (the OO built in dictionary wizard is removed), there are some other problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Jun 2008, at 22:01, Uwe Thiem wrote: ... This looks like the two-wire cable between the CD ROM and your soundcard is missing or loose. As it bloody well should be. An analogue cable is not fixing the problem. It has for years been possible to play music from a CD-ROM connected by