Le 03/04/2018 à 04:11, Henry Chang a écrit :
> Dear Aurélien,
Hi Henry,
> If I want a Debian-9 login screen that allows me to type "username"
> "password",
> and be able to select my own background, meanwhile it shows an analog clock
> and
> some welcome message, as in Debian-8 KDM. How to do t
On 03/28 I updated 3 Debian testing systems on our LAN at home,
the update including --
linux-image-4.15.0-2-amd64
Since that time two behavioral differences have been conspicuous
on all three systems.
The first is that these messages appear in dmesg during every
boot process:
[1.799465] pl
On Tuesday, April 03, 2018 08:30:04 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?
I am building (have built several iterations) of a free format database to
work something like askSam. It is a mashup of several applications, things
like recol, kmail, nail, kate and the data is stored in
On Tuesday, April 03, 2018 08:30:04 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Addendum: iirc (again please correct me if I am wrong) unix file names
> > may contain (at least in theory) any byte except 2F (the slash) and the
> > null byte. So if your text files might contain arbitrary file names there
> > may be
>> > What is the length of a string?
>> When is that relevant?
> When you're trying to display one on a screen, or print one on paper.
To display a string you don't just need its length, you need the actual
bitmap representation, and getting info such as length is trivial once
you've rendered the
Greg Wooledge (2018-04-03):
> When you're trying to display one on a screen, or print one on paper.
With just the length? You will not get anything done. To properly
display a string, you need to handle ligatures, right-to-left, kerning,
etc. The length of the string is barely relevant.
> When yo
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 10:51:43PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Ben Caradoc-Davies (2018-04-04):
> > What is the length of a
> > string?
>
> When is that relevant?
When you're trying to display one on a screen, or print one on paper.
When you've
Ben Caradoc-Davies (2018-04-04):
>What is the length of a
> string?
When is that relevant?
> Are you trying to count the number of glyphs?
What for?
> I do not think that
> you can
On 03/04/18 20:55, Darac Marjal wrote:
If these things matter to you, it's better to convert from UTF-8 to
Unicode, first.
Fixed length encodings like UTF-32 will not fix broken assumptions about
some relationship between byte length and number of characters because
Unicode contains things li
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 19:01:47 +0200
Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any way to detect if a policykit user-agent is running before
> actually calling pkexec to display the dialog with the login prompt?
>
> >From the pkexec man page it looks like calling
>
> pkexec --disable-internal-a
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 15:47:57 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:36:42PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> > >From what i have understood I think the OP should certainly at least,
> > whatever the files they want to include exactly look like and
> > whichever byte they choose as de
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:36:42PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> >From what i have understood I think the OP should certainly at least,
> whatever the files they want to include exactly look like and whichever
> byte they choose as delimiter, scan the file first for such a byte and if
> it is actua
On Tue 03 Apr 2018 at 19:58:23 (+0200), Laurent Lyaudet wrote:
> 2018-04-02 20:58 GMT+02:00 David Wright :
> > It might be more pleasant to look at /var/log/apt/history.log rather
> > than /var/log/dpkg.log which looks more like debug output than a log.
> Thanks David. The /var/log/apt/history.log
Hi,
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 14:32:08 +0200
wrote:
> > > Probably it is the same with some other control characters like 04
> > > (End of Transmission). When I look at
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII it seems like 1C (File
> > > Separator) or 1E (Record Separator) might be appropriate choice
On Mon 02 Apr 2018 at 09:07:16 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Just continuing to think (or maybe not think ;-) about password managers /
> password security, changing the focus slightly (I think) but keeping the same
> thread.
>
> I'm now thinking about the security (or vulnurability) of p
>No, this was an upload to stretch-updates, and it has been announced on
>the list dedicated for such updates:
>
>https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2018/03/msg1.html
>
>Cheers,
> Sven
Thanks Sven.
I didn't knew about this list.
It's good to know that the debian page of a pa
On 4/3/18, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 03/04/18 01:07, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>> the plaintext passwords would
>> disappear from RAM (except to the extent that (iiuc) there are (NSA) ways
>> to
>> recover the contents of RAM if power is restored to the machine fairly
>> quickly).
>
> I'm not sur
David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 02 Apr 2018 at 13:07:48 (-0500), John Hasler wrote:
>> Heating the disks to well above the Curie point of the magnetic coating
>> is guaranteed to destroy all the data.
>
> But how to determine what the curie point of the particular drives is
> might be taxing. And the
On Tue 03 Apr 2018 at 08:39:31 (+0200), john doe wrote:
> On 3/30/2018 6:30 PM, David Wright wrote:
> >On Wed 21 Feb 2018 at 09:03:41 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >>On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:48:32PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> >>>On 20/02/18 05:32, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> You appear to be
On Mon 02 Apr 2018 at 13:07:48 (-0500), John Hasler wrote:
> Curt writes:
> > I guess the only means of verifying whether your data has been
> > effectively destroyed is by attempting to recover it; as the
> > threat-scenarios spoken about here (by individuals) generally posit
> > attackers (corpor
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 02:14:07PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 13:58:33 +0200
> Michael Lange wrote:
>
> > I believe (please anyone correct me if I am wrong) that "text" files
> > won't contain any null byte; many text editors ev
> Addendum: iirc (again please correct me if I am wrong) unix file names
> may contain (at least in theory) any byte except 2F (the slash) and the
> null byte. So if your text files might contain arbitrary file names there
> may be (at least in theory) a (admittedly very small) chance that such a
>
On Tuesday, April 03, 2018 07:54:35 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> rhkra...@gmail.com (2018-04-03):
> > Next I'll have to refresh my memory on how to replace the existing From
> > with From preceded by the null character, i.e., something like:
> >
> > Find: \n\nFrom
> > Replace with \n\n0x00\nFrom
>
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 13:58:33 +0200
Michael Lange wrote:
> I believe (please anyone correct me if I am wrong) that "text" files
> won't contain any null byte; many text editors even refuse to open such
> a file, I guess since they assume it is a "binary" file.
> Probably it is the same with some ot
Hi,
i wrote:
> The file isolinux.bin is [...] jobless on an USB stick.
For the archive:
It is jobless on an USB stick which gets created according to the
prescriptions in 4.3.3 of
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/i386/ch04s03.html.en
It has a job as second program that gets started whe
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I do find "isolinux.bin" in both sources.
> What are the difference among those three.
The file isolinux.bin is an El Torito "no emulation" boot image for
(legacy) BIOS. It is the first program that is executed by BIOS
when the ISO image is presented on CD, DVD, or BD
Hi,
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 07:43:02 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > maybe you could use the null byte?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Surprisingly (to me), this (and maybe several other of the control
> characters might work--I did a search of one of the files, and there
> are no null bytes.
I believe (pleas
rhkra...@gmail.com (2018-04-03):
> Next I'll have to refresh my memory on how to replace the existing From with
> From preceded by the null character, i.e., something like:
>
> Find: \n\nFrom
> Replace with \n\n0x00\nFrom
This is a very bad idea, and you are obviously about tu reproduce the
err
On Tuesday, April 03, 2018 01:50:45 AM Richard Hector wrote:
> On 03/04/18 01:07, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > the plaintext passwords would
> > disappear from RAM (except to the extent that (iiuc) there are (NSA) ways
> > to recover the contents of RAM if power is restored to the machine
> > fair
On Monday, April 02, 2018 06:43:28 PM Michael Lange wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 08:37:54 -0400
>
> rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > A few weeks ago, I was looking for a byte that, in UTF-8, would be a
> > totally invalid byte (not an invalid sequence of bytes). At the time,
> > I tried some googling
Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:13:30 - (UTC)
> Dan Purgert wrote:
>
>> Joe wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices
>> > with multiple Ethernet ports are switches and therefore software-based.
>> > Indeed, many routers can be configur
David Wright wrote:
>> If you lease a public domain name, there is no real
>> difficulty about using it also in a private network, just a matter of
>> making sure that external resources using the name can also be found in
>> local DNS or hosts files.
>
> If you could elaborate. Say I have leased e
I wish to 'manually copy files to the USB stick — the flexible way'.
I will be using either
debian-9.4.0-i386-netinst.iso
or
a purchased DVD-1 of Debian 9.1.0
Section 4.3.3.2 says in part:
Mount the partition (mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt) and copy the following
installer image files to the stick
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 09:39:05AM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote:
> >I wouldn't say that. UTF-8 breaks a number of assumptions. For
> >instance,
> >1) every character has the same size,
> >2) every byte sequence is a valid character,
> >3) the equality or inequality of two characters comes down to
>
On Mon 02 Apr 2018 at 09:07:16 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Just continuing to think (or maybe not think ;-) about password managers /
> password security, changing the focus slightly (I think) but keeping the same
> thread.
>
> I'm now thinking about the security (or vulnurability) of p
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:14:22PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 03/04/18 20:55, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > If these things matter to you, it's better to convert from UTF-8 to
> > Unicode, first. I tend to think of Unicode as an arbitrarily large code
On 03/04/18 20:55, Darac Marjal wrote:
> If these things matter to you, it's better to convert from UTF-8 to
> Unicode, first. I tend to think of Unicode as an arbitrarily large code
> page. Each character maps to a number, but that number could be 1, 1000
> or 500_000 (Unicode seems to be growing
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 09:39:05AM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote:
On 2018-04-02 08:00 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 02/04/18 02:05, mess-mate wrote:
>howto change the system utf to eu character set ?
Why? UTF (especially UTF-8) is vastly superior for all purposes:
I wouldn't say that. UTF-
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