[vox-tech] Wiping Hard Drive

[Bob Scofield]

Hi,

I want to recycle an old desktop. I'm planning to wipe the hard drive 
with this command:


dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M

Can I just run this from the command line? Or do I have to use a flash 
drive with Linux on it and run it from the command line of the Linux on 
the flash drive?


Thanks.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] Linux Computer Infected

[Bob Scofield]

I've got it fixed.  But first thanks to Brian, Tim, Rod, and Rick.

Because Thunderbird was starting to crash I decided to go ahead and try 
to fix it on my own.  (I was getting very nervous.)  I think my 
procedure, while ham handed, generally follows Rick's advice.  But Rick 
did not waste his time with the long response because I'm going to copy 
and paste his response into a Libreoffice document so I'll know a more 
elegant approach the next time this happens.  So I appreciate it, Rick.


Rick said to see if Firefox was still running.  It was.  When I tried to 
reboot I got a message that I had to force the roboot because Firefox 
was still running.


As far as Brian's advice goes, I had a Linux Mint stick.  So I booted 
into and checked that Firefox was working from it.


Then from /home I deleted the following:  .mozilla, .chromium, and .cache.

As far as Rick's point about bookmarks, I think I've got most backed up 
on an external hard drive.  I'll check as soon as I send this message.


Then I reinstalled Linux Mint. I've wasted some time doing it this way, 
but everything seems to be working.  And I've got Virtualbox working, 
which I was worried about.


I may have committed the fallacy of false cause, but I'm still not going 
back to that website about the mama bear.


Thanks again.

Bob

On 06/02/2018 06:04 PM, Brian E. Lavender wrote:

Bob,

How about booting with Fedora on a stick?

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/quick-docs/en-US/creating-and-using-a-live-installation-image.html

I can create one for you if you like.

brian

On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 05:12:41PM -0700, Bob Scofield wrote:

Here's an update.  The idea of installing Chrome as a temporary fix does not
work.  Chrome will not even come up when I click on the icon.

Bob

On 06/02/2018 04:55 PM, Bob Scofield wrote:

I've got an infected Linux desktop and I don't have the technical
expertise to fix it.  I live in Woodland and I'm willing to hire someone
to come over here to fix it.  So I'll explain the problem and then
explain what I think I can do on my own, but if that won't work I would
like some professional help.

I was on the CNN news website and saw an article with a title something
like "Mama Bear Hugs Man Who Saved Cubs."  I wanted to read the article,
but checked out another story first.  Then I could no longer find the
bear story on the CNN website.  So I Googled and found it.

When I clicked on the link to the story or video or whatever it is,
Firefox crashed.  It crashed permanently.  If I try to start Firefox all
I get is the "Mozilla Crash Report."  I've removed Firefox 3 times.
I've purged Firefox twice.  I've reinstalled and the problem persists.

In the meantime I tried to read the story with Chromium.  Chromium now
constantly crashes.  It will not stay up for more than about 30 seconds.

What's more, Cinnamon (I'm using Linux Mint) is now crashing every once
and awhile and I've never seen Cinnamon crash before.

One idea I have is to reinstall Linux Mint.  But /home is on a separate
partition.  And I've got a feeling that if I reinstall, then something
in /home/.mozilla will prevent Firefox from working. So if I do a
reinstall, do I first wipe out /.mozilla?

I've got ESET Linux antivirus on this computer and it didn't find
anything during an in-depth scan.

This is a dual boot system.  I use Windows 7 for work.  Given that
Windows 7 is expiring next January I was planning on taking some time in
November to re-partition this computer to wipe out the Windows partition
and use Windows 7 in Virtualbox (keeping Windows more isolated from the
Internet).  So I guess I could download Chrome and use it until I do
this big computer switch in November. But even then I have to worry
about whether .mozilla should be deleted.

If one of these fixes don't seem like they'd work, please contact me and
I'll hire you to drive over and do the fix.

Thanks.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] Linux Computer Infected

[Bob Scofield]

Here's an update.  The idea of installing Chrome as a temporary fix does 
not work.  Chrome will not even come up when I click on the icon.


Bob

On 06/02/2018 04:55 PM, Bob Scofield wrote:
I've got an infected Linux desktop and I don't have the technical 
expertise to fix it.  I live in Woodland and I'm willing to hire 
someone to come over here to fix it.  So I'll explain the problem and 
then explain what I think I can do on my own, but if that won't work I 
would like some professional help.


I was on the CNN news website and saw an article with a title 
something like "Mama Bear Hugs Man Who Saved Cubs."  I wanted to read 
the article, but checked out another story first.  Then I could no 
longer find the bear story on the CNN website.  So I Googled and found 
it.


When I clicked on the link to the story or video or whatever it is, 
Firefox crashed.  It crashed permanently.  If I try to start Firefox 
all I get is the "Mozilla Crash Report."  I've removed Firefox 3 
times.  I've purged Firefox twice.  I've reinstalled and the problem 
persists.


In the meantime I tried to read the story with Chromium.  Chromium now 
constantly crashes.  It will not stay up for more than about 30 seconds.


What's more, Cinnamon (I'm using Linux Mint) is now crashing every 
once and awhile and I've never seen Cinnamon crash before.


One idea I have is to reinstall Linux Mint.  But /home is on a 
separate partition.  And I've got a feeling that if I reinstall, then 
something in /home/.mozilla will prevent Firefox from working. So if I 
do a reinstall, do I first wipe out /.mozilla?


I've got ESET Linux antivirus on this computer and it didn't find 
anything during an in-depth scan.


This is a dual boot system.  I use Windows 7 for work.  Given that 
Windows 7 is expiring next January I was planning on taking some time 
in November to re-partition this computer to wipe out the Windows 
partition and use Windows 7 in Virtualbox (keeping Windows more 
isolated from the Internet).  So I guess I could download Chrome and 
use it until I do this big computer switch in November. But even then 
I have to worry about whether .mozilla should be deleted.


If one of these fixes don't seem like they'd work, please contact me 
and I'll hire you to drive over and do the fix.


Thanks.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Linux Computer Infected

[Bob Scofield]

I've got an infected Linux desktop and I don't have the technical 
expertise to fix it.  I live in Woodland and I'm willing to hire someone 
to come over here to fix it.  So I'll explain the problem and then 
explain what I think I can do on my own, but if that won't work I would 
like some professional help.


I was on the CNN news website and saw an article with a title something 
like "Mama Bear Hugs Man Who Saved Cubs."  I wanted to read the article, 
but checked out another story first.  Then I could no longer find the 
bear story on the CNN website.  So I Googled and found it.


When I clicked on the link to the story or video or whatever it is, 
Firefox crashed.  It crashed permanently.  If I try to start Firefox all 
I get is the "Mozilla Crash Report."  I've removed Firefox 3 times.  
I've purged Firefox twice.  I've reinstalled and the problem persists.


In the meantime I tried to read the story with Chromium.  Chromium now 
constantly crashes.  It will not stay up for more than about 30 seconds.


What's more, Cinnamon (I'm using Linux Mint) is now crashing every once 
and awhile and I've never seen Cinnamon crash before.


One idea I have is to reinstall Linux Mint.  But /home is on a separate 
partition.  And I've got a feeling that if I reinstall, then something 
in /home/.mozilla will prevent Firefox from working. So if I do a 
reinstall, do I first wipe out /.mozilla?


I've got ESET Linux antivirus on this computer and it didn't find 
anything during an in-depth scan.


This is a dual boot system.  I use Windows 7 for work.  Given that 
Windows 7 is expiring next January I was planning on taking some time in 
November to re-partition this computer to wipe out the Windows partition 
and use Windows 7 in Virtualbox (keeping Windows more isolated from the 
Internet).  So I guess I could download Chrome and use it until I do 
this big computer switch in November. But even then I have to worry 
about whether .mozilla should be deleted.


If one of these fixes don't seem like they'd work, please contact me and 
I'll hire you to drive over and do the fix.


Thanks.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Need Partitioning Advice

[Bob Scofield]

I'm thinking about getting a new laptop for myself and a new desktop for 
my wife.  I know that for these computers I definitely want a separate 
partition for /home.


I notice that on my present Linux machines that I have a separate 
partition for /tmp.  And of course there are separate partitions for / 
and swap.  That's all the separate partitions I have.


How important is it to have a separate partition for /tmp?  I've got 2G 
on the desktop I'm using right now.  The partition for / is 15G.  I 
vaguely recall a discussion here years ago and people saying that /tmp 
is on a separate partition to prevent / from being crowded.  Does it 
make sense to have a 2G /tmp?  Does it make any difference if one does 
not have a separate partition for /tmp but instead adds 2G to /?


Thanks for you help.

Bob

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Re: [vox-tech] Advice for dealing with adobe pdf forms etc on linux?

[Bob Scofield]

I purchased the business edition of PDF Studio:

http://www.qoppa.com/

There's a version for Linux and one for Windows and Mac.

It's my default pdf program and I like it, but I have to admit that 
Windows Foxit is better.  I've seen Foxit OCR material that PDF Studio 
cannot.


The reason that I purchased a commercial program is that I plan to take 
Windows off my computers when Windows 9 expires in 2019, and I'm 
experimenting with using Linux in my business.  PDF Studio is one step 
in that direction.


Bob




On 08/04/2015 10:56 AM, Chris Jenks wrote:


  Dear Carl,

  I recently searched for a (free) PDF editor for linux to deal with 
the situations you describe but couldn't find anything adequate. As I 
remember there was at least one commercial linux application that 
looked like it might work but I wasn't willing to buy it (I see a few 
listed for sale at this time).


  What I ended up doing was opening the documents in Acrobat on 
Windows and printing them to PDF. The read-only PDF files can then be 
read and printed from Linux. Of course this isn't a Linux-only 
solution, and what I don't like about it is that I can't edit my own 
PDF documents without going to Windows.


  Yours,

Chris

On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Carl Boettiger wrote:


Hi folks,

I occasionally have to deal with Adobe pdf documents that have 
embedded forms at work and am looking for some suggestions on

how to manage this on a Linux platform.

Sometimes the files are just plain pdfs, and I can happily mark up on 
top of them with an editor like Xournal and export my

marked-up pdf.

When the document has embedded forms that already have some content 
entered into them (e.g. by another user on a Windows/mac
platform), that content does not display in evince.  I can get it to 
display using okular, but cannot print it from okular to

a pdf output without losing the contents of the form.

It appears that Adobe no longer provides support for a linux version 
of acroread.  I can get older versions of acroread
binaries to install and run just fine, but any attembpt I've made to 
print the output (e.g. print to file, or  using CUPS pdf
printer device) results in either a blank pdf or ps, or worse a 
document that causes any editor to segfault it when I try and

open it.

My current strategy has been to take a screenshot of the pdf; crop 
convert the png back to pdf (say, in gimp), and mark it up

in xournal.  Needless to say, this isn't ideal.

Any suggestions on how to better handle this situation?


Somewhat worse than the 'ordinary' pdf forms are pdfs that have 
XFA-based forms.  Opening these under evince or okular just

shows the text: Please wait...
If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of 
the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display
this type of document.   While these do open properly and can be 
edited in the dated linux binaries of acroread, I haven't
found any open source editor that can handle them.  (It seems there 
are good reasons for that, as their may be security issues
etc with this format, but I don't get to choose that).  Any way to 
deal with these?  (Even an online tool would be a

reasonable alternative I guess).

Thanks!

Carl
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http://carlboettiger.info






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Re: [vox-tech] Wi-fi issue

[Bob Scofield]

On 04/16/2015 08:28 AM, Chris Jenks wrote:


  Connecting isn't controlling. Instead of being scared you could do 
like me and just leave your wifi wide open and not worry about it. 
Excessive worry about security has been draining the life from people 
in every area of my life.

___


Here's one reason I'm in the excessive worry camp.  As a legal research 
and writing attorney for criminal defense lawyers, I have worked on 
several search warrants for child porn.  I even worked on one case where 
the San Jose Police Department thought it worth their while to travel 
through five counties to execute a warrant in Vallejo.


If someone downloads child porn through your wifi connection, there's a 
good chance that the police will search your house and seize all of your 
computers.  And while child porn searches might not be as messy as 
others, some search warrant executions can leave a house in shambles.


Some police agencies, when preparing to obtain a child porn search 
warrant, will stand near the suspect's house to see if the wifi is 
secured.  In my opinion this is done so that, if the connection is 
secure, the police can eliminate a defense at trial.  I seriously doubt 
that the existence of an unsecure connection would prevent the police 
from obtaining the warrant.


Search warrants for computer equipment always contain a request to hold 
the evidence for a longer period of time to give the police a chance to 
do a full examination of the hard drives.  So dealing with a search 
warrant can be a hassle even if you're innocent.


Bob
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[vox-tech] Slow Clock- New Battery

[Bob Scofield]

Earlier this year I noticed that my computer clock was slow so I put in 
a new battery.  Recently I noticed that the clock still runs slow.  
Sometimes the clock is at the right time when I turn the computer on.

I've Googled this problem and learned that one cause of a slow clock 
might be a defect in a memory resident program.  I can live with a slow 
clock.  My question is this:

Can a slow clock be a symptom of something serious; like a motherboard 
going out?

I want to know if I have to be thinking about getting a new computer.

Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] grub 2

[Bob Scofield]

Rick,

What's the matter with GRUB 2?

Thanks.

Bob

On 10/21/2011 10:45 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
 Quoting Brian Lavender (br...@brie.com):

 Any thoughts on grub 2?
 lilo still works -- and elilo if you have EFI-based hardware.

 I see that Debian squeeze is using grub 2.
 Default configurations were made to be fixed, nei?  ;-

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Re: [vox-tech] Caught in an infinite login loop

[Bob Scofield]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 06:07 -0700, Dr. Denny Scronek wrote:
 This is my second shot at this. Posting, that is. My laptop is caught
 in an infinite login loop ...won't except my password. Not a wrong
 password/CAPSLOCK problem that I can see. Any takers? Running xubuntu.


If you Google this problem you will find about six different
explanations for login loop.  Here is the solution that worked for me.

1)  Do what Alex says and boot with a live CD.

2)  Mount your xubuntu partition.

3)  Go to /usr/share/X11/xorg.donf.d/ and create a file called
xorg.conf

In xorg.conf put the following:

Section ServerFlags
Option AIGLX off
EndSection

I'm probably the only person on this lists who has no idea what all of
this means.  But it worked.

If someone on this list wants to interpret what I've put here, I'd be
interested in learning.

Thanks.

Bob

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Re: [vox-tech] Caught in an infinite login loop

[Bob Scofield]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 11:08 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:

 Anyway, I have gone through this exercise because it's really sad that
 so many new Linux users go absolutely helpless and start fumbling for
 live CDs if they are unable to use X11 graphics for some reason. 

I'm not exactly new and am too embarrassed to admit how many years I've
been using Linux.  But thank you for taking the time to write such a
lengthy post.  I appreciate it, and will print out, and save, your post.

Bob 

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Re: [vox-tech] Problem Reinstalling GRUB2

[Bob Scofield]

On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 22:38 -0700, Eric Lin wrote:

 
 Try installing to /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1. That'll install grub to
 your first hard drive's MBR.
 

Thank you Eric.  That worked.

I was looking at some old notes on how to reinstall GRUB1.  It sure
looks like reinstalling GRUB2 is a lot easier than reinstalling GRUB1.

In addition, after removing an old kernel, the use of GRUB2's
update-grub command is a lot easier than using vi to edit the old
menu.lst file.

GRUB2 is a nice improvement.

Bob

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[vox-tech] Problem Reinstalling GRUB2

[Bob Scofield]

I've got a GRUB problem.  Most of the stuff on the web talks about
reinstalling GRUB after a new Windows install.  My situation is slightly
different.

I've got Windows on /dev/sda1.  I've got my main Linux system (Ubuntu)
on /dev/sdb2.  I've got a spare Linux system (Kubuntu) on /dev/sdb3.

I just upgraded Kubuntu to 11.04.  After the upgrade the Kubuntu GRUB
took over.  So I can boot anywhere I want.  However, I want to set up
the GRUB for my main Linux system on /dev/sdb2 (where it used to be
before the Kubuntu upgrade).

I booted into /dev/sdb2 and executed this command (a command I modified
from one on a webpage which assumed that the execution would be done
from a LiveCD with the Linux partition mounted).


 grub-install --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda1

This command generated this error message:

/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a
partitionless disk or to a partition.  This is a BAD idea..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is
required for cross-disk install.

I don't really know where my computer boots from; the MBR on the Windows
partition, or /dev/sdb2.  I think it boots from the MBR.

Can anyone explain how I can reinstall GRUB to work from my main Linux
system on /dev/sdb2?

Thank you.

Bob

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[vox-tech] Do Apt GUI's Clean?

[Bob Scofield]

There have been GUI's for apt such as Adept, Synaptic, and now there 
are update managers.  I haven't used them very much.  I use aptitude.  
Aptitude and Apt-Get have the clean and autoclean commands.

While I have not seen autoclean do much for the last couple of years, clean 
really makes room.  After a recent install my system went from being 38% full 
to being 30% full after executing clean.

Do the apt GUI's have a clean feature?  If not, it would seem to me that those 
who use them should occasionally use the command line to clean their systems.  
Is that right?

On I side note, some years ago Karsten Self did some posts here on why 
aptitude was better than apt.  I notice that aptitude does not come on the 
initial installs of the most recent version of Ubuntu and Kabuntu.  You have 
to use apt-get to get aptitude.  I thought this strange.

Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] Strange Install Fail

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 14 March 2011, Shwaine wrote:

 No explanation, but I do have a hint for the next thing to try while
 debugging the issue. Drop down to a text console (CTRL-ALT-F1 or
 CTRL-ALT-F2)

Thanks for responding.  I've been Googling this problem and am surprised to 
find that it is relatively common.  It's called login loop.  One poster 
gave these four causes:

1.  file system is full.

2. sudo prefix used to run KDE or Gnome packages (changes permissions on 
~.Xauthority and ~.ICEauthority).

3.  Root ownership of files saved in user's home directory.

4.  Some forms of semi-broken video driver installation.

Other people give additional causes.  Oddly, some people say that if they 
create an additional new user account the problem goes away.

I've got a two pronged plan.  First I'm going to update KDE on the partition I 
don't use to get the newer kernels that create login loop in Kubuntu.  Then 
I'll follow your suggestion to see what I can find.  If I develop the 
confidence that I know what I'm doing, then I'll reinstall Ubuntu on my main 
partition and try to fix things there.  (In other words I can practice on the 
spare partition because it doesn't matter if I screw up.)

If that doesn't work, then I'll go to the next installfest and make this 
Alex's problem.

I also had another thought.  When I do a new install I never reformat the 
partition with /home.  Over the years a bunch of configuration files collect 
there.  I'm thinking that in future installs I should backup my documents and 
the configuration files I want to save, and then format /home.  Then after 
the install I'll move things back into /home.  I'm wondering if I've got 
configuration files in /home that are causing problems with new 
installations.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Strange Install Fail

[Bob Scofield]

After successfully installing Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop I can't get it on my 
desktop.  I've made two attempts.  I get a message about some codecs 
(whatever they are) missing.  

The install seems to go well. The problem starts when I try to log in.  After 
logging in, the screen appears to try to take me to the desktop, and then it 
reverts back to the login screen.  After the first install I could actually 
see the desktop begin to appear before the screen reverted back to the login 
screen.

The following evidence led me to concluded, erroneously I think, that I had a 
memory problem.

In addition to Windows, I have a third Linux partition where I have Kubuntu 
with KDE 4.1 or 4.2.  When that system upgraded to kernels after 
2.6.28-15-generic the same problem of not getting past the login screen 
happened.  Thus I was unable to get past the login screen with these kernels: 
2.6.28-17, 2.6.31-20, 2.6.31-22.  But I've got no problem with 2.6.28-15.  
(Yesterday I removed the three problematic kernels to make the GRUB screen 
less messy when I did my installs.)

According to Windows, I've got 1.46 MB of RAM.  Here is the output of 
free -t -m:

total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:  1487430   1056  0 16254
-/+ buffers/cache:159   1328
Swap: 1027  0   1027
Total:2514430   2084

So I doubt memory is the problem.

After this failure I reinstalled my old Kubuntu and I can get past the login 
screen with kernel 2.6.24-28-generic.

Does anyone have an explanation for this strange problem of not getting beyond 
the login screen?  I'm obviously no expert, but I keep thinking I've got a 
hardware problem that will not allow me to run the more recent kernels.  And 
that is preventing me from installing Ubuntu 10.10.

Thank you.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Two Install Questions

[Bob Scofield]

I've been running Kubuntu Hardy on my laptop and desktop.  I've frozen myself 
at KDE 3.5.  But some updates ruined Kubuntu on my laptop and I installed 
Ubuntu 10.10 on the laptop.  Because I like it so much, I've decided to 
install Unbuntu 10.10 on my desktop.  This has led to two questions.

1)  During the install I am told that I have a partition called dev/sdb1 in 
ext3.  I had no idea what that could be.  So I aborted the install, and went 
into Kubuntu to find out.  dev/sdb1 was not mounted.  But by 
executing fdisk -l I got this:

 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   1130610490413+  83  Linux

So I mounted it to see what it was.  It's an empty directory 
called lost+found.

What is that there?  What does lost+found do?  Why do I need it?

2)  During my laptop install I was given the choice of ext3 or ext4.  Given my 
level of expertise, I'd never heard of ext4.  By Googling, I learned that 
ext4 came out in 2008.  So you can see where I'm at.

I didn't see any negative comments about ext4 so I used it.  I'll have the 
same choice when I install on my desktop.  I assume that ext4 is the best 
choice.  Is that right?

Thank you.

Bob


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Re: [vox-tech] Netflix

[Bob Scofield]

On Tuesday 08 March 2011, Darth Borehd wrote:
 Netflix intentional denies Linux clients from using their streaming service
 because of DRM.  Please send them letters and phone calls expressing why
 this is stupid.

There's an online petition out there somewhere.  I've signed it.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Search Warrant Question re: IP Address Leases

[Bob Scofield]

I am in the process of analyzing a search warrant in a child porn case.  
Basically what happens is that the police search the web for child porn being 
downloaded by peer to peer programs.  They check the SHA 1 hashes against a 
database of known child pornography videos.  If the police see that child 
porn has been downloaded at an IP address they issue two search warrants.

The first search warrant is directed at the ISP to see whom the subsciber was 
who had the IP address when the porn was downloaded.  After they get that 
information they then get a second search warrant to search all computers at 
the subscriber's address.

This search warrant has challenged my understanding of dynamic IP addresses.  
I thought that a person was given an IP address each time he used the 
Internet.  I thought that after I left an Internet session my IP address was 
then made available to another customer of my ISP.  But in this case Comcast 
responded to the first search warrant with information about IP address 
leases.

When I Google about IP address leases I'm reading about five and eight day 
leases.  But here is the information supplied by Comcast (IP address redacted 
by me):

IP_AddressLease_Grant (UTC)Lease_Expire (UTC)
xx.xxx.x.xxx 2010-08-23 02:56:44.0  2010-09-28 22:04:00.0
xx.xxx.x.xxx 2010-04-08 06:28:58.0  2010-08-23 02:52:53.0

I read this as saying that the defendant had the same IP address for about six 
months.  In fact the defendant may have had the same IP address for even 
longer as Comcast did not retain any records before April 8, 2010.

So it seems to me that this dynamic IP address is like a static address.  Is 
this unusual?  Is the information provided by Comcast plausible?  Why would a 
lease be given for such a long period of time?  To track down people 
violating the law?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] Search Warrant Question re: GUID

[Bob Scofield]

I'm trying to understand the notion of a GUID as used in a search warrant for 
child pornography.  In fact a GUID has nothing to do with the case in which 
the defendant is charged with possessing child pornography.  The police 
officer who drafted the warrant has a section discussing various high tech 
issues that were not used in the case.  But I'm just trying to learn this 
stuff.

Below is an excerpt from the warrant.  CPS refers to a software program used 
by the police in child porn cases.

CPS will also keep a record of each time an IP address is identified as being 
a download candidate for suspected child pornography on the Gnutella network.  
CPS also keeps record of each time a users GUID (Globally Unique Identifier a 
special type of identifier used in software applications to provide a unique 
reference number) is identified as being a download candidate for suspected 
child pornography on the Gnutella network.

Later in the warrant we have this:

An investigator, using the CPS software, can also generate a historical 
report showing the dates and times that a specific GUID was logged on the 
Gnutella network, the IP address used and the SHA 1 hash values of any 
suspected child porn images or videos shared by that computer.

I've been Googling GUID, and I see that there are various uses of GUIDs.  
But it's not crystal clear to me how it works in child porn investigations.  
Does it mean that a person's Limewire program has a unique GUID, that is 
different from another copy of the Limewire program?  Or is it that the 
person's version of Windows has a unique GUID that is different from mine?

Do Linux and open source programs have GUIDs, or is this just a Microsoft 
thing?

Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] Kaspersky disables the synergyc

[Bob Scofield]

On 12/19/2010 3:32 PM, Hai Yi wrote:
 Hello there:

 I use synergy to share the keyboard and mouse among 3 computers of 
 mine (2 Linux and one Windows), it seems when I start Kaspersky, the 
 synergyc installed on my Windows stops working. I guess Kaspersky 
 thinks it's a virus or something.


I'm not sure this will work, but the first thing to do is as follows.

1)  Go into Kaspersky's settings

2)  Click on Threats and Exclusions

3)  Click on Exclusions Settings

4)  Click on the Trusted Applications tab.

5)  Click on the Add button and keep on going until you get to 
browse and then find and enter the synergy program.

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[vox-tech] Vipre and ESET Antivirus

[Bob Scofield]

My Kaspersky antivirus is expiring in about a month.  I'm thinking of getting 
either Vipre or ESET.  It's for my two work computers running XP.

Vipre is apparently new, but is getting good reviews on the web.  It 
supposedly uses less resources than the others.

Has anyone here had any experience with either Vipre or ESET?  Does anyone 
have any other comments about antivirus programs?

Thank you.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Seeking Router Advice

[Bob Scofield]

I am asking the following questions in regard to a wireless router I use in my 
home.

I recently attended a class where I was told that one should use WPA2 if it is 
available.  I have an old D-Link (DI 614) which is not longer supported by 
D-Link.  It's been good.  I've had no problems with it.  Right now I've got 
it set up with WEP and MAC filtering.  I could use WPA, but it cannot use 
WPA2.

I saw a discussion on the Internet where people were saying that WPA2 is not 
really better than WPA.  People were saying that WPA2 was just being pushed 
so that vendors could sell more products.  Here are three question:

1) Should I get a new router just to use WPA2?

2)  How new would the computers in my family have to be to use WPA2?

3)  If I did get a new router, what would be a good one to get?

I've been happy with D-Link, but I've had occasions where my laptop with an 
Atheros card could not connect with a Linksys router in Linux, but could 
connect with Windows.

Thank you for any advice.

Bob

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[vox-tech] Need Windows PDF Reader

[Bob Scofield]

Can someone recommend a PDF reader for Windows?  I need one for my business.  
And I need one soon.

I've just had an Adobe nightmare.  I was reading business email (Thank God I'm 
in Linux now where I feel safe) and Kaspersky AntiVirus said Adobe 8.x was 
downloading a trojan.  So Kaspersky took a few minutes to deal with the 
problem and kept telling me that some so-called Windows image files were not 
real image files.  They may have been .dll files, I'm not sure.

When Kaspersky was done my Adobe icon could no longer load the program.  So I 
decided to delete the whole program and download the newest Adobe Reader, 
which is 9.3.  Well that automatically downloads a second program, Adobe Air, 
whatever that is.  When I clicked on the icon to install Adobe 9.3 winzip 
extracted the files to my desktop.  I admit that was my fault.

But what was weird was that after deleting the files from my desktop, they 
kept reappearing after about two or three re-boots.  The last time I rebooted 
those damn files were gone.  But if they appear tomorrow I'll have to 
reformat my Windows XP.

Adobe seems to be bloated.  When downloading they offer all kinds of crap, 
N.Y. Times subscriptions, etc.  I hate to admit this, but with all my 
experience, as the one who is called upon to fix family computer problem, I 
confess that I am incapable of installing Adobe 9.3.

But I don't want to learn how.  I want some non-bloated Windows program that 
reads PDF files and that I can trust.  And if my wife wins the lottery, I'm 
closing down my business and removing Windows from my desktop and laptop.

Thanks for any recommendations.

Bob
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[vox-tech] DVD DRM Problem

[Bob Scofield]

My son has spent a lot of time in New Zealand the last few years, and is 
getting ready to go back.  His laptop is a Toshiba purchased in the U.S.  
When he rents DVD's in New Zealand, Windows Media Player warns him that the 
DVD he is about to play was made to be played in a different part of the 
world.  (I.e., Windows is telling him that his computer distributed in the 
U.S. is about to play a DVD distributed in New Zealand.)

Windows then gives him a chance to change the DVD type on his computer so that 
he can play the New Zealand DVD.  But there's a catch.

The catch is that he is only allowed to change the DVD type so many times.  
After the limit is reached his computer will be frozen so that he can only 
play one type.  Thus as strange as it sounds, he may end up in California 
with a computer that can only play DVD's distributed in the New Zealand, 
Australia, et. al. area.

He says he downloaded a program that would play DVDs with no DRM hassle.  But 
that program messed up his computer.

So the question is:  Can anyone recommend DVD playing software that runs on 
Windows 7, and that will play DVD's without freezing a computer to one type 
of DVD?

(It certainly seems to me that world travelers who can't break from Windows 
ought to be dual booting.  Do Mac's have this problem?)

Thank you.

Bob

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[vox-tech] .jpg Mystery

[Bob Scofield]

I'm working for the defense on a criminal case, and have come across a 
mystery, and am asking for help solving it.

The police have given us a photo.  The time the photo was taken is important.  
The defense investigator's computer indicates that the photo was taken 
at 2107.  The investigator emailed a copy of the photo to me.  My computer 
(on both Windows and Linux) indicates that the photo was taken at 10:07 pm.  
Thus there is a one hour difference in the times reported on our respective 
computers.

My question is, how can a .jpg file give two different times for its date of 
creation?  

You may not want to read what follows.  Below I explain how the investigator 
and I got our results.

The investigator used Windows XP.  He right clicked on the .jpg and clicked 
on properties.  That brought up a box with three 
tabs:  General, Summary, and Details.  The date of time and creation 
was found in the Details tab.

I used Windows XP.  When I right click on properties I get the General 
and Summary tabs, but I do not get the Details tab.  All I've figured out 
how to do it is to put the cursor over the .jpg file and a yellow box comes 
up with the date and time the photo was taken.

In Linux there are a couple of different ways I can get the date and time the 
photo was taken.

Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] Legal Ethics Tech Question

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 14 December 2009, Tony Cratz wrote:

 Second question is are you accessing your work desktop via
 the Internet?
 
  My desktop connection is with a cable and a router.  It's not wireless.

   You missed understand my question, Alex and I said the same
   thing. If you are using WiFi on your laptop to remotely
   connect to your desktop you need to use some VPN style
   software. The weak point is your laptop using WiFi. That
   side needs to be secure and you need a tunnel between
   the laptop and desktop which is encrypted thus the VPN
   software.


Right, I misread the question.  I am not accessing my desktop via the 
Internet.  (Which I take to mean that I don't want VPN for what I am doing.)

I'm studying everyone's responses, and checking some stuff out on the 
Internet.  I'm leaning toward buying a commercial disk encryption program and 
a firewall.  I can now see that my laptop should be encrypted regardless of 
whether I am using a wireless connection.

I appreciate people responding to a legal ethics question that they otherwise 
would not be interested in.  So a specific Thank You to Tony, Alex, Bill 
Broadley, and Brian.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Legal Ethics Tech Question

[Bob Scofield]

I need some help on a legal ethics question.  I occasionally take my laptop to 
the Sacramento Public Law Library to use its public access wireless 
connection for some great online resources.  Right now the California State 
Bar has a formal ethics opinion up for public comment:

http://calbar.ca.gov/calbar/pdfs/public-comment/2009/Prop-Opin-Tech-Confidentiality.pdf

With regard to a hypothetical where Attorney A used a public wireless 
connection the opinion concludes:  

that due to the lack of security features provided 
in most public wireless access locations, Attorney A risks violating his 
duties of confidentiality and competence in using the wireless 
connection at the coffee shop to work on client X's matter unless he 
takes appropriate precautions, such as using an adequate encryption 
device and a personal firewall. 

The opinion goes on to state that the attorney generally should not use 
any unsecured public wireless connection that does not require a 
password for access.  The opinion states that the attorney might get 
his client's informed consent to use the unsecured wireless connection.  
Footnote 15 notes that a hacker can gain access to a client's 
confidential information on a computer even if the file pertaining to the 
client is not open.

I've got a dual boot laptop, but I have to use Windows for my legal work.  
Supposedly Windows XP has a firewall, though I've never used it.  But note 
that the opinion talks about having to use both a firewall and an encryption 
device.  So what is an encryption device that I can use to comply with the 
ethics opinion when I am using Windows Internet Explorer to connect to the 
web?  

Thank you.  (And thanks for making your answers simple since I'm not a 
techie.)

Bob




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Re: [vox-tech] Legal Ethics Tech Question

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 14 December 2009, Tony Cratz wrote:
 Bob Scofield wrote:
  I've got a dual boot laptop, but I have to use Windows for my legal work.
  Supposedly Windows XP has a firewall, though I've never used it.  But
  note that the opinion talks about having to use both a firewall and an
  encryption device.  So what is an encryption device that I can use to
  comply with the ethics opinion when I am using Windows Internet Explorer
  to connect to the web?

   Windows firewalls are not secure. You can use other software to
   help be a more secure firewall. This will help to reduce the
   number of people who can break into your laptop as you are
   connected to the Internet.

   Next I have a question, what are you using the Internet for when
   you are using a public WiFi connection? Or you using it to for
   surfing public records? Or are you using it to connect to non
   public web servers?

I connect to a very expensive legal database (westlaw.com).  I'm paying $168 a 
month for a lighter version of it at home.  But sometimes I need the extra 
databases you can get at a law library for free.


   Second question is are you accessing your work desktop via
   the Internet?

My desktop connection is with a cable and a router.  It's not wireless.

Thanks for responding.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Website Referral From Porn Site

[Bob Scofield]

I've got a business website; www.legalargument.net.

This site is for my legal research and writing law practice.  It contains some 
useful legal information, mostly dealing with different types of subpoenas.

I check my web stats, given to me by my webhosting service, almost every day.  
There is a chart labeled, Top 30 of 53 Total Referrers.  Here is the entry 
for the seventh top referrer, indicating 5 hits.

7   5   0.35%   http://thickmom.com

thickmon.com is a porn site.  How can I be referred by a porn site?  I can see 
someone visiting a porn site, and then going to my URL.  But would that count 
as a referral?

Thanks.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Windows Browser Recommendation

[Bob Scofield]

First let me apologize for asking for Windows help on this list, but I have to 
use Windows my business.

Firefox in Windows is taking 20-30 seconds to launch after I boot into 
Windows.  It's faster to launch after I've launched the first time after 
booting into Windows.

I've been Googling the issue and am quite surprised at how many people are 
complaining about Firefox being slow.  The practical problem is that so many 
solutions are being offered, that I don't have time to try them all.  I've 
tried 3 or 4 and none have worked.  One person decided to install a new 
browser (Safari).

I'm thinking of getting a new browser and want to know what people here 
recommend.  Many years ago I used Opera in Linux, and it was so fast on a 
dialup connection that my son said it looked like we had DSL.

Is Opera still a good choice?  What else should I be looking at?

(As I write this I'm wondering if I should have Kaspersky antirus ignore 
Firefox.)


Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] Windows Browser Recommendation

[Bob Scofield]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Alex Mandel wrote:

 Yes Opera is still fast, and last time I checked a little more compliant
 with web standards than Safari.

 What version of Windows/Firefox is giving you trouble?

Windows XP and Firefox 3.0.14.

Thanks.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] Windows Browser Recommendation

[Bob Scofield]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Alex Mandel wrote:
 Bob Scofield wrote:
  On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Alex Mandel wrote:
  Yes Opera is still fast, and last time I checked a little more compliant
  with web standards than Safari.
 
  What version of Windows/Firefox is giving you trouble?
 
  Windows XP and Firefox 3.0.14.
 
  Thanks.
 
  Bob

 Did you try upgrading to 3.5? I hear it's faster and fewer memory leaks
 as is par with most new releases they do.


I'll give it a try.  (There's people on the web complaining about it too.)  
I'll download it tomorrow.

Thaks again.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Need Partitioning Advice

[Bob Scofield]

I'm planning to install Linux on my wife's computer because she does not like 
Vista.  I'm going to create a dual boot and will have 111GB for Linux.

I am thinking of a simple partitioning system with separate partitions for:

/
/home
swap

My wife has 2GB of RAM, and I was thinking of making swap 4GB.

My first question is how big should / be?  On my desktop it's 8GB, and on my 
laptop it's 13GB.  I'm not anywhere near using up the space on either of 
those machines.  How about 13GB?

I notice that my desktop has a separate partition for /tmp.  Should I create a 
separate /tmp partition for my wife?  If so, how big should it be?

Is there any special difficulty in creating a dual boot system with Vista?

Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] Converting to Kubuntu

[Bob Scofield]

On Saturday 02 May 2009, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
 Dear all,

 This summer I plan on building a new workstation and I think I'm going to
 install Kubuntu instead of Debian.

 Has anyone here made this switch?  Any thoughts or comments about whether
 Kubuntu met/didn't meet your expectations?

I can only address things from a non-technical point of view.  I've used 
Debian testing for a long time as my main system.  But I've had Kubuntu 8.04 
on my laptop, and Kubuntu 8.10 on another partition of my desktop with KDE 
4.1.

I've been very happy with Kubuntu on my laptop.  Recently I had a bad 
experience with Debian.  Because I detest KDE 4.x, I decided to switch from 
Debian testing to Debian 5.0 in order to freeze KDE at 3.5.  For some reason 
my HPLIP toolbox doesn't work.  But the big surprise is that this Debian 
stable release hangs every 5 or 6 boots.  It hangs where the startup messages 
state that the kernel modules are being loaded.  So in mid-June I'm putting 
Kubuntu on both my wife's computer, and this one.  That is, I'm replacing 
Debian stable with Kubuntu; probably 8.04.

I realize that Kubuntu is a Debian offshoot, and I have a lot of respect for 
Debian.  If I ever become flush again I'll make another monetary contribution 
to the Debian project even if I'm not using Debian itself.

Bob
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[vox-tech] GRUB Puzzle

[Bob Scofield]

I have two Linux versions on this computer; Debian testing and Kubuntu.  
Debian is my main system.  Kubuntu is a backup system.

Debian's GRUB controls the boot process.

Like any other Debian based system, Kubuntu updates the kernel.  I now have 
these kernels in Kubuntu:  2.6.22-14-generic, 2.6.24-19-generic, and 
2.6.24-22-generic.  Debian's GRUB boots the 2.6.22-14 kernel.  I would like 
it to boot 2.6.24-22.

Debian's menu.lst has the following entry pertaining to Kubuntu:

title   Kubuntu (on /dev/hdb3)
root(hd1,2)
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=/dev/hdb3
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
savedefault
boot

If I use vi to change 2.6.22-14 to either one of the two newer Kubuntu 
kernels, it doesn't work.  What happens is that the boot process starts, but 
hangs.  It hangs before it gets to the message about initiating scripts.

If I go back and use vi to change Debian's menu.lst back to the 2.6.22-14 
kernel, then Kubuntu can then once again boot.  (In other words I haven't 
totally mangled things with vi.)

I checked Kubuntu's /boot/grub and all of the kernels have the same 
permissions.  I just can't get Debian's GRUB to boot the newer Kubuntu 
kernels.

Can anyone solve this puzzle?

Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] GRUB Puzzle

[Bob Scofield]

On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Cam Ellison wrote:
 Bob Scofield wrote:
  I have two Linux versions on this computer; Debian testing and Kubuntu.
  Debian is my main system.  Kubuntu is a backup system.
 
  Debian's GRUB controls the boot process.
 
  Like any other Debian based system, Kubuntu updates the kernel.  I now
  have these kernels in Kubuntu:  2.6.22-14-generic, 2.6.24-19-generic, and
  2.6.24-22-generic.  Debian's GRUB boots the 2.6.22-14 kernel.  I would
  like it to boot 2.6.24-22.
 
  Debian's menu.lst has the following entry pertaining to Kubuntu:
 
  title   Kubuntu (on /dev/hdb3)
  root(hd1,2)
  kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=/dev/hdb3
  initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
  savedefault
  boot
 
  If I use vi to change 2.6.22-14 to either one of the two newer Kubuntu
  kernels, it doesn't work.  What happens is that the boot process starts,
  but hangs.  It hangs before it gets to the message about initiating
  scripts.
 
  If I go back and use vi to change Debian's menu.lst back to the 2.6.22-14
  kernel, then Kubuntu can then once again boot.  (In other words I haven't
  totally mangled things with vi.)
 
  I checked Kubuntu's /boot/grub and all of the kernels have the same
  permissions.  I just can't get Debian's GRUB to boot the newer Kubuntu
  kernels.

 You can't do it this way.  If you are going to use one kernel in both
 distributions, you need to have the kernel, modules, and related files
 in both.  If you have a common partition, you could copy the .deb of the
 desired Kubuntu kernel into it, reboot in Debian, and then install the
 kernel.  That should work.  You need to think of the two systems as
 completely distinct: you wouldn't expect to do what you are trying to do
 with Kubuntu and Windows; no more can you mix Kubuntu and Debian (or
 anything else).

Thank you for the message.  I now can see that I was not clear enough.

I am not trying to use a single kernel for both distributions.  I'm using two 
separate kernels for each.  Right now Debian's GRUB gives me the option to 
boot kernel  2.6.26-1-486 for Debian, or kernel 2.6.22-14-generic for 
Kubuntu.  I am simply trying to change the Kubuntu option to 
2.6.24-22-generic.  

But for some reason changing Debian's menu.lst for Kubuntu from 2.6.22-14 to 
either 2.6.24-19 or 2.6.24-22 results in a boot that hangs.

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Re: [vox-tech] GRUB Puzzle

[Bob Scofield]

On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Alex Mandel wrote:

 What's in your kubuntu menu.lst and have you tried just copying those
 entries over?

Well that's just too simple.  But it works.  

Kubuntu's menu.lst entry is:

/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=77a7b120-9eae-44d5-8a6c-6cc655287563 
ro quiet splash

So I copied everything except ro quiet splash into Debian's menu.lst (for 
Kubuntu) and now it works.  That is, Debian's GRUB can now boot the most 
recent kernel for Kubuntu on the other partition.

Thank you Alex.  And thanks to the others who helped.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Editing menu.lst

[Bob Scofield]

I need some help on editing menu.lst.  I'm trying to change it so that my 
laptop's default is to boot into Linux instead of Windows.

If I want to read menu.lst by executing less menu.lst I have no problem.  
But if I execute vi menu.lst I get this:

 E325: ATTENTION
 Found a swap file by the name .menu.lst.swp
   owned by: root   dated: Tue Jul 10 23:00:09 2007
  file name: /boot/grub/menu.lst
   modified: YES
  user name: root   host name: fir
 process ID: 6909
 While opening file menu.lst
  dated: Tue Aug 26 18:09:56 2008
   NEWER than swap file!

 (1) Another program may be editing the same file.
 If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
 different instances of the same file when making changes.
 Quit, or continue with caution.

 (2) An edit session for this file crashed.
 If this is the case, use :recover or vim -r menu.lst
 to recover the changes (see :help recovery).
 If you did this already, delete the swap file .menu.lst.swp
 to avoid this message.

 Swap file .menu.lst.swp already exists!
 [O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (D)elete it, (Q)uit, (A)bort:

I don't get this menu.lst.swp thing.  My guess is that I should choose E 
and edit anyway.  Is this what I should do?  Is there any danger here?

Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] openoffice and word

[Bob Scofield]

On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Carl Boettiger wrote:
 Hi all,

Hi.

I'll take a stab at this.  If I get it wrong, one of the big boys will correct 
me and help you out.


 I dual-boot windows and linux and save documents to a third (vfat)
 partition.  I began editing a file in windows on MS word.  I switch to
 linux, open it in openoffice and edit and save the file in .doc format.  I
 reboot into windows.  Will windows give me the time I last edited it in
 Word or the (more recent) time I last edited it openoffice in linux?

Windows should give you the document just as it was most recently edited with 
Open Office in Linux.


 My problem is that going back to windows and opening the file, i don't see
 any of the changes in linux, and the time last edited according to windows
 is the time I last edited it in MS word.  There's no record of the editing
 in openoffice anywhere.  Any possible explanations?

One explanation might be that your third partition (vfat) is not being mounted 
to the Linux root system in a way that is allowing you to write to the vfat 
partition with Open Office.  That is, the vfat partition might be mounted so 
you can read it from Linux, but can't write to it.

So I would look at your /etc/fstab file when you are in Linux.  I'd look for 
the line that has the information about the vfat partition, and under 
the options column I'd look to see if it says defaults.  It should 
say defaults.  If it doesn't, then you might want to put defaults there, 
and see if that takes care of your problem.

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[vox-tech] fsck Question

[Bob Scofield]

It looks like Kubuntu does a DOS fsck on the VFAT partition and Debian does 
not.  In Kubuntu I get this error message:

fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
Differences: (offset:original/backup)
  90:33/fa, 91:c9/33, 92:8e/c9, 93:d1/8e, 94:bc/d1, 95:f4/bc, 96:7b/f8
  , 97:8e/7b, 98:c1/8e, 99:8e/c1, 100:d9/bd, 101:bd/78, 103:7c/c5, 104:88/76
  , 105:4e/00, 106:02/1e, 107:8a/56, 108:56/16, 109:40/55, 110:b4/bf
  , 111:08/22, 112:cd/05, 113:13/89, 114:73/7e, 115:05/00, 116:b9/89
  , 117:ff/4e, 118:ff/02, 119:8a/b1, 120:f1/0b, 121:66/fc, 122:0f/f3
  , 123:b6/a4, 124:c6/8e, 125:40/d9, 126:66/bd, 127:0f/00, 128:b6/7c
  , 129:d1/c6, 130:80/45, 131:e2/fe, 132:3f/0f, 133:f7/8b, 134:e2/46
  , 135:86/18, 136:cd/88, 137:c0/45, 138:ed/f9, 139:06/38, 140:41/4e
  , 141:66/40, 142:0f/7d, 143:b7/25, 144:c9/8b, 145:66/c1, 146:f7/99
  , 147:e1/bb, 148:66/00, 149:89/07, 150:46/e8, 151:f8/97, 152:83/00
  , 153:7e/72, 154:16/1a, 155:00/83, 156:75/eb, 157:38/3a, 158:83/66
  , 159:7e/a1, 160:2a/1c, 161:00/7c, 162:77/66, 163:32/3b, 164:66/07
  , 165:8b/8a, 166:46/57, 167:1c/fc, 168:66/75, 169:83/06, 170:c0/80
  , 171:0c/ca, 172:bb/02, 173:00/88, 174:80/56, 175:b9/02, 176:01/80
  , 177:00/c3, 1.

Actually these numbers go on a lot longer.

I've seen this problem discussed on the web.  People say it's more of an 
irritation than a serious problem.  The suggested solution is to run these 
commands:

sudo umount /dev/hda1

sudo fsck.vfat -ar /dev/hda1

Some people on the Ubuntu Forum appear to be running the second command 
without the first, which I take to be dangerous.  But here's my question.  Is 
running fsck.vat dangerous?  Why not just ignore the problem?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] Minor Browser Font Problem

[Bob Scofield]

I did something stupid.  I had Debian's home directory on a parition /home.  
I then installed Kubuntu, and had it's home partition on /home.  Well as 
some of you know, that causes problems.  (I've re-installed Kubuntu with the 
home directory on the same patition as the root directory.)

Hooking Kubuntu to /home caused several problems for the Debian KDE desktop.  
I have solved all of those problems but one.  The URL's that appear in my 
browser, Ice Weasel (Firefox), appear in a very small font.  And other Ice 
Weasel fonts appear small.  Some I can change, but not the fonts in the URL 
box.

I can find nothing in Ice Weasel, or KDE that changes the size of the font in 
the URL box.  Does anyone know of a way I can enlarge the font there.  (BTW, 
the font in the URL box in Konqueror is fine.)

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Minor Browser Font Problem

[Bob Scofield]

On Sunday 06 January 2008, Ken Bloom wrote:

 In KDE, go to the fonts control panel, and select a value under Force
 Fonts DPI.

Thanks Ken.  The value 120 did the trick.

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[vox-tech] Removing Old Kernels

[Bob Scofield]

I've got a lot of old kernels in my Debian testing and Kubuntu systems that 
I'd like to get rid of.  Is there a single simple command to use to get rid 
of one kernel?  

For example if I have these files in /boot:  config-2.6.15-1-486,   
initrd.img-2.6.15-1-486, vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486, System.map-2.6.15-1-486, is 
there one aptitude command that can be used to get rid of all of it, or do I 
do aptitude remove config-2.6.15-1-486 for the one file and other similar 
commands to get rid of the other files?  Do I just use the rm command for all 
of these files?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] Monitor Recommendation?

[Bob Scofield]

My wife is going to buy a new Dell computer.  She's trying to decide what kind 
of monitor to get.  She'll be doing mostly web surfing, e-mail, word 
processing, and collecting digital photos.

It seems like Sony had a great reputation for CRT monitors when I bought this 
one around 2001.  But we're seeing monitor reviews without Sony even being 
mentioned.  So I don't know what's going on.

Can anyone recommend a good flat screen monitor?  She wants a 17 inch monitor.

Thank you. 

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Re: [vox-tech] The incredible moving ethernet adapter

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 23 April 2007 11:32, Bill Kendrick wrote:


 Apparently (I finally got hold of the paperwork they sent back with the
 laptop after it was repaired), IBM decided to flash the BIOS with a new
 revision.  That apparently mucked up the MAC addr.

 *Whew!*  That was a close one! :^)

1)  The thought the MAC address was set by the card itself.  I guess I was 
wrong.

2)  I thought BIOS flashing was dangerous enough that one should do it only 
when necessary.

3)  Why would IBM flash the BIOS on a hinge repair job?  Just to be nice?

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Re: [vox-tech] Sound failure in Feisty on IBM Thinkpad X41 tablet PC

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 23 April 2007 12:46, Bill Kendrick wrote:
 Apparently the 1.0.13 version of the ALSA drivers have a bug that
 causes sound to silently fail (no pun intended... or is it?! :^) )

 Sound used to work in Linux Kernel 2.6.17 on Edgy Eft, but in Feisty,
 which I believe comes with 2.6.20, it fails.
 It seems like (sounds like? har!) an ALSA 1.0.14 release candidate has
 fixed this.

 In the meantime, I'm just telling Melissa to choose an older kernel when
 she boots up, if she wants sound. *sigh*

Thanks for the tip.  I get very little sound with Feisty.  An older kernel 
works much better.  I feel better about both Kubuntu and my laptop.

I enjoy your Kubuntu reports.  As far as I'm concerned you can keep it up.

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[vox-tech] Downloading Deb Packages for Kubuntu

[Bob Scofield]

Thanks to last Saturday's Installfest I've got Kubuntu running on my laptop.  
I am distressed to find, however, that one of my favorite applications of all 
time; Kdictionary, cannot be found in Kubuntu.  In fact it's no longer found 
on the main Debian packages pages.

But I have found kdict by Googling.  I can download it from Debian.  It's 
a .deb file.  Can I download this .deb file from the Debian website and 
expect it to work in Kubuntu?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Downloading Deb Packages for Kubuntu

[Bob Scofield]

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 12:55, Rod Roark wrote:


 There is a kdict package for Edgy and other [K]Ubuntu releases.
 It's in the universe repository.

Thanks Rod.  I'm new to Kubuntu.  I should probably get a book.  I've just 
read on the web that I can uncomment this repository in apt.sources.list.  
This will be a project for tonight.

Thanks again.

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Re: [vox-tech] Re: wireless wonders

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 02 April 2007 14:05, Richard Burkhart wrote:
 Norm Matloff wrote:
  It is my understanding that kernels 2.6.15 or newer do include drivers
  for Broadcom cards, at least the 43XX series.

 Do we have to install firmware, in addition to modprobing whatever
 version of the bcm43xx driver has already been included with the
 distro's kernel?  I'd tried to use the included kernel module from both
 OpenSuse and Deb Testing - neither worked.  (Something to explore on the
 web once I'm out of work today)

 The ndisrapper'ed windows kernel worked as of Saturday.  It's still
 working today -- in that I can scan access points, and can see the two
 access points in my range.  I just can't (it seems) force the settings
 into place to get into the AP.

I had the same problem here.  But then I switched the router's setting 
from shared key to open Key WEP, and the connection was made.
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[vox-tech] General Wireless Security Question

[Bob Scofield]

We've talked before here about how someone can hack into your laptop if you're 
doing wireless with an open connection at a public wireless access point.  
But does anybody have any idea what the practical risks are?

Does anybody know if there are very many people actually going near a 
Starbucks or airport access point and hacking into people's laptops?  I 
haven't read about this happening in the newspapers.

And here's another question I think I know the answer to.  Given that people 
can hack at public access points, I assume that as far as protecting critical 
system files you're better off with using Linux than Windows since it would 
be harder for the hacker to get into the root directory given the Unix 
permissions.  Is this correct?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Open Source Appreciation Day (Was re: You are here -- )

[Bob Scofield]

On Sunday 18 March 2007 19:35, Bill Kendrick wrote:

 Sometimes Kudos is enough.  I seriously need to sit down and put together
 a world-wide Open Source Developer Appreciate Day (kinda like
 Secretary's Day or Mother's Day).

 Everyone would be encourage to send a gift (money, postcard, chocolate,
 beer, chocolate beer) or just a 'thank you!' email to the developers of
 their favorite OSS software.


I wrote out a check for $50 to Debian today.  It will go out in tomorrow's 
mail.

I like the Debian project.  And even though I'm going to put Kubuntu on my 
laptop, I've heard that Ubuntu is a Debian based distro.  I'm not sure giving 
money to Debian really helps Kubuntu or not, but Debian deserves support 
anyway.

Giving a little money is the only thing I can do since I have no technical 
expertise of any kind.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Swap Size

[Bob Scofield]

I've ordered a laptop with 1G of memory.  Yesterday I read on the web someone 
recommending that you have twice as much swap as memory.  So he said that if 
you have 512M of memory you should have 1G of swap.

But if I have 1G of memory it certainly seems like 2G of swap is too much.  
Couldn't I just get by with 1G swap, or should I allocate 2G to swap?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] Fstab Entry for Camera?

[Bob Scofield]

For some reason the /etc/fstab entry for my digital camera seems to no longer 
be working.  That is, my camera does not mount.  I assume that apt has given 
me a kernel upgrade that requires a different entry.

Here is my kernel:  2.6.18-3-486 

Here is my /etc/fstab entry:  

/dev/sda1   /media/usb0 autorw,user,noauto  0   0

Can anybody tell me what the correct fstab entry should be?  And where do I go 
to find this information out when there are new kernel upgrades?

Thank you.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Clean vs. Autoclean

[Bob Scofield]

Well I just learned the difference between Aptitude Clean and Aptitude 
Autoclean.  I've just got the official word from the man pages.

I'd been doing both clean and autoclean.  I like autoclean better because it 
would tell me what was actually getting cleaned out.  So I stopped using 
clean for a few months.

I had been worrying about how I was going to partition the laptop I'm planning 
to buy because my system had grown 10% in the last year.  But this morning 
Clean wiped out that 10%.  Wow.

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[vox-tech] Autoclean is Strange

[Bob Scofield]

I'm not asking a question I'm just making an observation.  

Aptitude's Autoclean is strange.  I've noticed that Autoclean will sometimes 
not delete old packages until days after they've been replaced.  So I may run 
Autoclean daily, but it sometimes does not remove old packages until 3 or 4 
or more days later.  Today it removed a bunch of stuff including Firefox 1.5 
which had been replaced a week ago.  But I've been running autoclean every 
day since I replaced Firefox with Iceweasel.

I'm not complaining.  Computers are strange.  I'm not a techie.

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[vox-tech] Fujitsu Atheros?

[Bob Scofield]

Here are two easy questions:

1)  Is it true that, all other things being equal, a Linux user would prefer 
an Atheros wireless card because of better driver support?

2)  Does anybody have an opinion on the desirability of having a Fujitsu 
laptop?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] GRUB and Vista

[Bob Scofield]

I'm about two weeks from ordering a laptop.  I now that Vista is supposed to 
be coming out in January, and so I don't know if I'll end up with XP or 
Vista.  So I'm wondering, and getting nervous, about setting up a dual boot 
with Vista.

I've been Googling and it seems like some who double boot with XP and Vista, 
or triple boot with XP, Vista, and Linux are having some problems.  The 
problems are supposedly arising because of Vista's boot loader.

One person fairly easily set up GRUB to boot Vista and Debian, but even he has 
to push a key on his key board to get GRUB on the screen.

Does anybody know if Vista will be hard to set up to dual boot with Linux?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] AVG Anti-Virus for Linux

[Bob Scofield]

I downloaded the AVG Free anti-virus program for my wife's Windows computer, 
and I was surprised to see a free anti-virus program for Linux here:

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5

This free program is an rpm.  You can buy a commercial AVG program and get it 
as an rpm, deb file or tar ball.

Is anybody using AVG?  I know that there have been several discussions on this 
list about Linux and viruses.  The conclusion always seems to be that viruses 
have not been a problem for Linux.  So I am guessing that most people here 
would not think it necessary or important to use AVG.

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[vox-tech] XP Likes GRUB

[Bob Scofield]

I finally solved my Windows 98 dilemma by upgrading to Windows XP because it 
only cost about $30 or $39 or so with the rebate.  But here's the kicker.  
The installation of Windows XP did *not* wipe out GRUB.

I was a little nervous about my ability to re-install GRUB.  But I didn't have 
to.

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[vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma

[Bob Scofield]

While I  use Linux for all personal computing, I'm still using Windows 98 for 
my business computing.  I  have not upgraded to XP because I don't want to 
support Microsoft (and the idea of having to call to re-install XP a second 
time rankles me).

Since July Microsoft no longer gives security updates for Windows98.  So do 
you all think there's a danger in my continuing to use Windows98?  Should I  
upgrade to XP, or the new OS coming out in January, simply to protect myself?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma

[Bob Scofield]

On Saturday 16 December 2006 19:28, Rod Roark wrote:
 On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:27, Bob Scofield wrote:
  While I  use Linux for all personal computing, I'm still using Windows 98
  for my business computing.

 Which applications?

Word Perfect

A free form data base called Ask Sam

And I use Internet Explorer for an online legal research service that I 
subscribe to because IE is the only browser that allows me all of the 
features the service offers (though I could fudge and use Firefox).

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Re: [vox-tech] Apt Problem

[Bob Scofield]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 09:11, Chris Jenks wrote:
Dear Bob,

I had to deal with this same problem recently when a broken php module
 was put in the unstable package repository. The way I got past this
 problem was to comment out the lines (in apache2.conf, I think) that
 loaded broken modules. I can no longer find a configuration file that
 specifies modules to load, so I think it was replaced with the
 /etc/apache2/mods-available and /mods-enabled which I now see. If I had
 this problem now, I would temporarily delete the links to the broken
 modules in mods-enabled so that apache2 would not try to load them when
 being stopped/started by apt.

Chris,

Thank you very much.  This fixed the problem.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Apt Problem

[Bob Scofield]

I've got a problem with apt dist-upgrade.

It started when I accidentally installed apache.  I then removed apache, which 
was a mistake.  I've since re-installed and re-removed apache but can't fix 
the problem.  Here's the problem.

When I do apt dist-upgrade I get this error message:

dpkg: apache2-common: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you 
request:
 apache2-mpm-prefork depends on apache2-common (= 2.0.55-4.1).
(Reading database ... 117542 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing apache2-common ...
Stopping apache 2.0 web server...Syntax error on line 1 
of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php4.load:
Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so into 
server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action stop failed.
dpkg: error processing apache2-common (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 apache2-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Here's why this is a serious problem.  If I have other non-apache packages to 
upgrade, they will not upgrade after apt quits because of the apache problem.  
So the apache problem is bigger than it looks.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Bob
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[vox-tech] What is HAL?

[Bob Scofield]

My Debian system seems to be going backward.  It seems I used to be able to 
mount things by right clicking with the mouse.  Now if I want to mount a 
floppy or a digital camera or a CD, I get this message:  Feature only 
available with HAL.  What is HAL?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] What is HAL?

[Bob Scofield]

On Friday 15 September 2006 22:20, Alex Mandel wrote:

 Hardware Abstraction Layer, it's used to handle the detection and
 auto-mount of devices. You may want to try to reinstall it.
 Mine got buggy that other day too and wasn't reading Music Cds.

 Try
 apt-get --reinstall hal

Thank you.  aptitude install hal worked for me.

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[vox-tech] K3b on Debian vs. Kubuntu?

[Bob Scofield]

I'm running Debian testing.  K3b used to run fine on the 2.4 kernel, but I've 
had trouble running K3b on Debian with the 2.6 kernel.  I was wondering if 
K3b works any better with Kubuntu.  Does anybody know?

In the meantime I'm using the K3b on the Knoppix 2.4 kernel, and I'm doing 
fine.

Thank you.

Bob
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[vox-tech] Battery Problem?

[Bob Scofield]

My wife says she's having a problem starting her computer.  She says that when 
she pushes the start button she hears the sound of the computer starting, but 
then the computer does not turn on when she releases the button.  She has to 
try pushing the button a few more times before she can get the computer to 
come on.

Is this the battery going out, or is it a problem with the power supply?

Here's one more question.  In the old days I remember making some kind of a 
Norton Antivirus backup floppy for the CMOS data so that if you replaced a 
battery your could replace your CMOS data.  But I don't do that anymore.  So 
if you replace the battery, what do you do about the CMOS?

The computer we're talking about was built in 1997.  The battery has never 
been replaced.

Thank you.

Bob
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Re: [vox-tech] spam current events

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:51, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:


 the gif image itself is mostly white with a few colored threads here and
 there.  i certainly don't see any text, so i'm not quite sure what their
 purpose is.  perhaps it's some kind of virus?

 anyone else seeing these things?  i'm getting them a few times a day now.


I'm getting these every day.  I'm getting them on my e-mail account I use on 
Linux, and not on my e-mail business account which I use with Windows 98.  So 
as a result I'm not getting a report from Norton on whether the .gif is a 
virus.

I was thinking of forwarding one of these to my business e-mail address to see 
if Norton would detect a virus on it.  But then it occurred to me that it 
might be illegal to knowingly transmit a virus over the net.  So maybe the 
next time I get one of these, I'll save it to a floppy, reboot, and let 
Norton examine the floppy.  

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[vox-tech] CD Burner Recomendation?

[Bob Scofield]

I need a new CD burner.  In the past a lot of folks have recommended Plextor 
for Linux.  That's what I have now.  Do people still think Plextor is a good 
recommendation for a Linux machine?

Thank you.

Bob
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[vox-tech] CUPS Doen't Work on Debian

[Bob Scofield]

The last two CUPS upgrades on Debian have been a nightmare.  The 
next-to-the-last upgrade resulted in an error message saying that the 
parallel port couldn't be found and that CUPS would retry in 30 seconds.

I Googled the problem and learned that the bug had been reported, but it was 
classified as low priority.  But I could print by doing the following.  If 
I brought up CUPS and went to Administration and chose Add Printer and 
did *nothing* then my print job would start.

Today Apt upgraded to CUPS 1.2.1.  Now I can't print at all.  The new error 
message is /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel failed.  What's more, if I try to 
add a new printer with a different driver, I get nothing but a blank page 
after typing in my user name and password.  

Fortunately I've got an earlier Debian version on another mounted partition, 
and so I can print from there.  But I was wondering if there is anybody else 
suffering from these problems.  My printer is an HP Laserjet 1320.  I know 
there are a bunch of Debian users on this list.  So what's happening with you 
folks?

Is it possible to get the CUPS version number from my other Debian and somehow 
get Apt to download it, and then configure Apt not to upgrade it?

I hate to be such a wimp.  I've just recently decided that if I get a laptop 
I'm going to install SuSE.  But now I'm thinking of putting it on this 
desktop.  I know Rod Roark is going to say I should install Ubuntu, but the 
first problem I mentioned is reported to have arisen on Unbuntu also.

Thanks.

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Re: [vox-tech] CUPS Doen't Work on Debian

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 08:42, Bob Scofield wrote:
 The last two CUPS upgrades on Debian have been a nightmare.  The
 next-to-the-last upgrade resulted in an error message saying that the
 parallel port couldn't be found and that CUPS would retry in 30 seconds.

 I Googled the problem and learned that the bug had been reported, but it
 was classified as low priority.  But I could print by doing the
 following.  If I brought up CUPS and went to Administration and chose
 Add Printer and did *nothing* then my print job would start.

 Today Apt upgraded to CUPS 1.2.1.  Now I can't print at all.  The new error
 message is /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel failed.  What's more, if I try
 to add a new printer with a different driver, I get nothing but a blank
 page after typing in my user name and password.

Okay, I got it to print by clicking (in CUPS) Start Printer.  Then after 
re-booting, the most recent problem disappeared.  With CUPS 1.2.1 I now 
appear to be back to the first problem.  That is, the error message is that 
the parallel port can't be found that that there will be a retry in 30 
seconds.  Then I can print by bringing up Add Printer and maybe click 
on Canon and do nothing.  Then it prints.

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Re: [vox-tech] CUPS Doen't Work on Debian

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 09:15, Ken Bloom wrote:


 What version are you using? 1.2.1-3 Fixes wrong command line
 arguments to backend. (closes: #372586, #373839) which caused this
 kind of problem in 1.2.1-2.

 I can't see why you'd get a broken version if you upgraded today
 though.

The way I know how to find out a version number is type in localhost:631 and 
read the CUPS page.  My CUPS page says the version is 1.2.1.

Thanks for trying to help.

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Re: [vox-tech] CUPS Doen't Work on Debian

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:03, Ken Bloom wrote:

 dpkg -l cupsys

Thanks.  That yields: 1.2.1-3

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[vox-tech] Backing Up Photos

[Bob Scofield]

I'm thinking about backing up digital photographs.  I'm trying to decide if I 
should use CD's or a flash drive for the backup.  Is one medium better than 
the other?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] Strange Apt Speed Improvement

[Bob Scofield]

I've been using Debian for the last year and a half.  Up until the last two 
weeks apt-get update or aptitude update has taken from 2 to 5+ minutes to 
update the package lists.  For the last two weeks update has taken a matter 
of seconds.  I have no idea why there has been such a remarkable improvement, 
but it is nice.

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Re: [vox-tech] KDE on Kubuntu

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 11:18, Richard Harke wrote:
 Should be a no brainer, right?
 I have an HP ZV6000 laptop with AMD 64 this has ATI 200M
 video chip Couldn't get headers to match pre-built kernel so
 I custom built kernel.


 Has anyone seen this??

In the event you don't get an answer here, you're very likely to get one here:

Debian Laptop List debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

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Re: [vox-tech] Cannot Connect to Comcast highspeed

[Bob Scofield]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 19:47, Tim Riley wrote:


Comcast will only let the MAC addr that it was setup with to
  go through.

 Oh my God! This can't be true. They are scum if this is true.

I'm changing the subject here.  But I was curious if anybody knows why Comcast 
does that.

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[vox-tech] Etch sources.list

[Bob Scofield]

I'm doing some thinking and planning for my upcoming Debian install, and came 
across this from the Debian website: 

 The installer will set up /etc/apt/sources.list for the installed system 
using the codename (etch) rather than the suite (testing) of the release 
being installed.

Doesn't this take the fun out of Debian?  If I understand things correctly, 
this will get the user into a system that will someday be frozen; Debian 
stable.  Why would a desktop user ever want to run stable?

So here's my plan.  When I download Etch I'm going to copy my present 
sources.list into the download.  It is set up for testing.  It started out 
as Sarge and is now Etch.  Isn't this the smart thing for a desktop (non 
server) user to do?  This gets all the KDE, Open Office, Firebird upgrades 
forever.  I wonder why Debian is channeling people into stable (a dead end).  
Am I missing something?

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[vox-tech] Pdf Viewers

[Bob Scofield]

I just made a disappointing discovery.  I was playing around with a DMV form 
and learned that with the Adobe Reader (in SuSE) I could type into the form.   
But in Debian neither XPDF nor KPDF would let me type.  

So it seems that the open source readers are limited in ways that Adobe is 
not.  I've read the KPDF Handbook, and there is no mentioned of typing into a 
form.

So have I discovered a fact of life, or does someone know how to configure an 
open source reader to type into a pdf document?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] Debian Contrib

[Bob Scofield]

I've been bothered by the fact that Debian's Open Office does not have Help.  
I just learned that Debian does have Open Office Help, but it's in the 
Contrib set of packages; not Main.

My question is this.  Can the sources.list file be configured to allow Apt to 
bring down Contrib packages, or do I just download a tarball from the Debian 
website?

(I tried adding testing contrib to the end of one of my sources, but that 
did not work.  And I don't yet see this issue covered in the Debian System 
book.)

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Debian Contrib

[Bob Scofield]

On Friday 10 March 2006 09:06 am, Rick Moen wrote:
 Quoting from /etc/apt/sources.list on my server (which tracks testing,
 with optional access to unstable packages):

 deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
 deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

 deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
 deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

After following this model I got a bunch of error messages after running 
aptitude update.  But aptitude install is now downloading the Open Office 
help files from U.C. Berkeley.  

So thanks Rick.

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Re: [vox-tech] HD filling up - what can we delete?

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 27 February 2006 10:55 am, Hookand Crook wrote:
 Our small HD is getting a mite full and we notice that in various
 places we might do some house cleaning.

 
 Are there any other places that I might do some additional house
 cleaning to free up some space? Especially in the Mozilla folder?

 Any other house cleaning suggestions?

Here is something I worry about, but nobody else seems to.  When I do a new 
install I change the run time in /etc/crontab so that it runs at a time when 
I'm likely to use the computer (since my computer does not run all day and 
night).  If you have not done that, then you might want to look at /var/log.  
How big is messages?  If it's gigantic, I'd delete it.  

There may be other files in /var/log that you can delete, but I'll leave that 
to the people on this list who really know about this stuff.

BTW, the filling up of the HD is another area where Linux is better than 
Windows.  I had a Linux partition on a dual boot fill up once, but Linux ran 
flawlessly.  My experience is that Windows9x starts cracking up when the HD 
starts to fill up.

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Re: [vox-tech] linux and viruses

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:26 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
 On Thu 23 Feb 06,  6:31 PM, Cylar Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
  It turns out that he was not even aware that Linux can speak TCP/IP and
  supports DHCP client networking functions.

 That's mind blowing, no matter what his background or concentration is.
 Doesn't he read books or magazines related to his field?

Or, getting back to viruses, he might want to read a newspaper.  It seems to 
me that everytime I read about some dangerous virus outbreak in the newspaper 
I'm told that Linux and Mac users are safe.  And it turns out that with some 
of these viruses nowadays even we Windows98 users are safe.  (He he he, I 
don't need no XP.  My accountant actually used the virus issue as an argument 
for not upgrading from 98 to XP.)

A few weeks ago I met a guy who told me he switched from Windows to Linux 
because he was simply tired of getting viruses all the time.  That was the 
first time I'd met anyone who'd made the switch for that reason.

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Re: [vox-tech] Irritating KDE Error Message

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 20 February 2006 12:31 pm, Bill Kendrick wrote:
 On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:03:23PM -0800, Bob Scofield wrote:
  Today I started getting an irritating error message when booting into
  KDE:
 
  Could not start kdeinit.  Check your installation.
 
 

 Someone in the channel suggested this, though:

   [12:34] chealer kendrick: tell him to get sid's libfreetype6


 Good luck!

My luck was good.  Once again the Ken Bloom approach of doing nothing worked.  
Today apt brought me some KDE packages and the problem has gone away.

The old-time Debian users need to switch to Gentoo to maintain their 
self-respect.  Debian is for sissies like me.  The problem started with the 
Sarge installer.  Now any fool can run Debian.

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[vox-tech] Irritating KDE Error Message

[Bob Scofield]

Today I started getting an irritating error message when booting into KDE:

Could not start kdeinit.  Check your installation.

When the message comes up on this system (Debian testing), KDE stops booting.  
But if I click OK, then KDE resumes booting.  So far I haven't seen 
anything on KDE that is not working.  (I'm typing this message in Kmail.)

I've Googled the error message.  From what I've read the message is usually 
bad news.  When people get it, KDE doesn't start.  But for me, it's just a 
minor irritation since all I have to do is click on OK and everything 
works.

So I assume that I should just ignore the problem rather than play around and 
really mess the system up.  Do people agree with this solution?  Does 
someone know of an easy fix?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] base-config is gone

[Bob Scofield]

I've been having trouble lately with a couple of my Debian sources; U.C.S.C. 
and the University of Arizona.  So I decided to delete them with vi, and then 
add a couple of more with base-config.

But base-config is gone.  I've done some Googling and learned that base-config 
was taken out of Sid.  I'm using testing, but it's just not here.

So now I have to publicly admit that I do not know how to add sources without 
using base-config.  So here are three questions:

1)  Is there an easy way to add sources without base-config?

2)  How many sources do people think one needs?  I've got two right now.  Is 
there a reason for 3 or 4?

3)  Is there a tool  available for doing the other things base-config used to 
do (but which I can't remember)?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] base-config is gone

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 06 February 2006 10:41 am, Ken Bloom wrote:

 base-config is the configuration questions that you would be asked
 after rebooting, prior to etch. It has been recently removed in favor
 of a more RedHat or Mandrake style installation of asking all of the
 installation questions before rebooting, and (I believe) installing
 all of the packages before rebooting. (I believe this allowed them to
 remove a hack in how they were installing packages before)

base-config could also be run at any time.  And so it was a convenient way to 
modify the sources.list file.  The 2005 book *Debian System* also mentions 
apt-setup, but I cannot find that command or package.

 I'm not sure what they're doing with tasksel, but surely it does not
 include the old base-config functionality such as mirror selection and
 user creation. Tasksel still only lets you pick common sets of
 packages for installation like Desktop environment. I've always
 thought tasksel presented a rather useless list of tasks, and
 everything you can accomplish in tasksel can also be done in aptitude.


It seems useless to me.  When I used it to bring up Aptitude, Firefox was 
immediately removed without giving me a chance to say no.

Thanks for all of the other information Ken.  It is useful to me.

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Re: [vox-tech] update on the audio CD problem

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:51 pm, Norm Matloff wrote:
 Many thanks to Micah and Bill for their response to my query on the audio
 CD problem.  Here is the result.



 I was able to get my machine to work by taking a combination of Micah's
 and Bill's advice, PLUS something I found on the Web.  Here is what I
 did:


Thanks for the step by step directions.  I had been using KSCD for music CD's.  
But KSCD's volume is poor.  XMMS really projects nice volume.  I had been 
using XMMS for radio, but not CD's.

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Re: [vox-tech] Debian Boot Problem

[Bob Scofield]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 01:49 pm, Troy Arnold wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:11:21PM -0800, Bob Scofield wrote:
 
 
  Does anybody know what to do about this irritating problem?

 Yeah, I got it too.  For possible solutions see:
 http://tinyurl.com/96jw9

 http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/1469
1c4613b454e8/281dfed02907301c

This is an example of the relatively unusual situation where Debian pays off 
for the non-geek.  Or in my case it pays off for the Bewbie (a person with 
years of Linux experience with nothing to show for it but a good time).

Last week Ken Bloom responded with a list of suggestions in response to my 
complaint that k3b was not available for testing.  His primary suggestion for 
dealing with the problem translates as:  Do Nothing.

In other words, don't worry about Debian problems because apt will take care 
of them in time.

My boot problem is another example.  Today apt brought me e2fsprogs.  So 
today my boot problem ended.  It looks like I can boot Debian without 
irritation, and keep my computer set to local time.

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[vox-tech] Debian Boot Problem

[Bob Scofield]

I've got a triple boot system with Windows 98, SuSE and Debian.  I've had no 
problems with these three co-existing until about a week or so ago.  An 
irritating problem with Debian has surfaced.

During Debian's boot, the boot process stops with this rather titillating 
error message:

Checking root file system.../: Superblock last write time is in the future.

I'm then given two options.  (1) Reboot and let Debian fsck; (2) type in the 
root password and do a manual fsck.  But even if I manually fsck, I still 
have to reboot to get into Debian.  Thus the bottom line is that I have to 
boot twice to get into Debian.

I also note this:  fsck 1.39-WIP (10-Dec. 2005)  So maybe I've apt-upgraded 
to a new and very sensitive fsck.

Does anybody know what to do about this irritating problem?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Debian Net Install Questions

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 16 January 2006 04:48 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

 There are three Debian systems here.

 

 My gaming machine runs unstable.

Liar!  Your gaming machine runs Windows XP, and everybody on this list knows 
it.  Don't try to pull the wool over our eyes.  ;-)

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[vox-tech] Debian Net Install Questions

[Bob Scofield]

To do a Debian net-install of testing you download a relatively small (100mb) 
image.  After you install a base system, you then use apt to build what you 
want.

Debian keeps coming out with newer images every so often.  Suppose one has an 
older image; one that is 6 or 10 or 12 months old.  If one wanted to install 
Debian is there any advantage of downloading the more recent image?  It seems 
to me that the old one should work because apt will update everything, right?

Here's another question.  I got the feeling from a recent post that Ken Bloom 
uses unstable.  Do others use unstable?  Why would one choose unstable over 
testing?

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] Firefox File Associations

[Bob Scofield]

Firefox in my SuSE system will not bring up Microsoft Word documents in Open 
Office if I click on Word documents on a web page.  In my Debian system 
Firefox does bring Open Office up for Word documents.  I'd like to fix 
Firefox in SuSE to do the same.

When I type about:config in the Firefox URL box I get all the configuration 
information, but I don't see what it is that I'm supposed to change to get 
Firefox to start Open Office.  

Does anybody know how to get Firefox to start Open Office?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Two Apt Error Messages

[Bob Scofield]

On Friday 06 January 2006 9:58 am, Matt Roper wrote:


 I ran into the same thing a few days ago.  I searched around through the
 mailing list archives and found the following message which describes
 what the problem is and how to add the 2006 signing key to your keyring:

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg00291.html

Thank you Matt.  It worked.

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[vox-tech] Missing Kmail Subfolders

[Bob Scofield]

I've been playing around copying my saved Kmail e-mail messages from SuSE to 
Debian.  I notice that saved messages contained in folders such as my inbox, 
and immediate subfolders are found in the Mail directory of my home 
directory.  But I can't find my sub-subfolders anywere.

Here's an example.  Suppose I create the Kmail subfolder Computers.  Any 
messages I save into that subfolder will be found in my Mail directory.  But 
then suppose I create a sub-subfolder Debian under Computers.  I can 
access the e-mails saved in Debian in Kmail itself, but I can't find where 
on the hard drive the messages are stored.  They are not in my Mail 
Directory, even though my messages in Computers are.

Does anybody know where I can find the e-mail messages stored in the 
sub-subfolders?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Missing Kmail Subfolders

[Bob Scofield]

On Sunday 18 December 2005 1:57 pm, Aaron A. King wrote:
 Go down into the Mail directory (which has become, inexplicably, .Mail in
 the newer releases of KDE) and do an 'ls -a'.  You'll see the directories
 there, I believe.

Yes, the ls -a does it.

Thank you.

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[vox-tech] Kmail Font Question

[Bob Scofield]

For several months my incoming mail in Kmail has not appeared in the nice dark 
blocky font that Kmail uses.  It appears in small courier.  This is a problem 
in my personal account in SuSE.  I have a business account that I rarely use, 
and there the font looks great.  And the font looks great in my Debian Kmail.

Today I tried to fix the problem by upgrading to the Kmail that appears in KDE 
3.4.  But surprisingly that didn't work.  Changing fonts in Kmail settings 
doesn't work either.

Does anybody have a suggestion?

Thank you.

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Re: [vox-tech] Kmail Font Question

[Bob Scofield]

On Monday 07 November 2005 11:56, Bob Scofield wrote:
 For several months my incoming mail in Kmail has not appeared in the nice
 dark blocky font that Kmail uses.  It appears in small courier.  This is a
 problem in my personal account in SuSE.  I have a business account that I
 rarely use, and there the font looks great.  And the font looks great in my
 Debian Kmail.

 Today I tried to fix the problem by upgrading to the Kmail that appears in
 KDE 3.4.  But surprisingly that didn't work.  Changing fonts in Kmail
 settings doesn't work either.

 Does anybody have a suggestion?

Yes, I do you idiot.  Go to View-Used Fix Font, and uncheck fixed font.

I'm sorry about the previous post.

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[vox-tech] Where is less?

[Bob Scofield]

I've re-installed Debian Testing using the net install.  I've got cat and 
more, but for some reason I don't have less.  Is there a package I am 
supposed to apt-get?

Thank you.

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