dropbox alternative

2013-10-16 Thread yudi v
I am looking for an dropbox alternative, so far found Unison and btsynch (not open sourced). Are there any other open sourced alternatives. I am not interested in server/client designs like owncloud, pud.io, and various others. It should be able to propagate latest changes to other

fan control in wheezy

2013-06-29 Thread yudi v
Hi, I just installed wheeezy 64bit (kernel 3.2.0.4) and the fans (CPU fan and the two fans powered by the MB) are running at full speed. it's a asus p8z68-m pro MB, Heres the output of sensors: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+27.8°C (crit = +99.0°C) temp2:

writing pseudo-random data to disks

2013-05-09 Thread yudi v
I am using the below command/s to write to 3TB hitachi deskstar 7200RPM disks. dcfldd if=/dev/urandom status=off | PV -s 3000G | dcfldd of=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=off bs=4096 on the HP microserver nl40 with SATA 3Gbps connection, the throughput was 3-4MB/s, around 10.5 days.

Secure way of voice communication between two PCs

2013-05-09 Thread yudi v
Hi, I have been using Skype for a while and wanting to find an open source alternative. Skype uses encryption which most of the open source counterparts lack. Also, with skype it's not a direct connection between the two PCs, I think they use nodes/super nodes or something similar in the middle.

Re: RAID 1 (mirroring) question

2012-12-18 Thread yudi v
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Note that after a power cycle even if the RAID 1 array needs to be sync'd between the mirrored disks that the system will still boot okay and will operate normally. I have no idea what other systems do but you can boot the

RAID 1 (mirroring) question

2012-12-17 Thread yudi v
Hi all, I am looking at using Debian software RAID mirroring and would like to know how it handles system crashes and disk failures. My only experience with software RAID 1 is with windows 7 inbuilt option. Whenever the system does not shutdown cleanly, upon reboot the disks start resynching and

LUKS question

2012-06-22 Thread yudi v
Hi, I have a laptop with the entire harddrive encrypted with LUKS. Are there any precautions I need to take before moving this harddrive to another machine and booting from it. The only precaution suggested on LUKS FAQ is to back up the header. I have done that. -- Kind regards, Yudi -- To

Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-09 Thread yudi v
You have two (or more) computers connected to each other. I'm assuming they are also connected to the Internet somehow (you didn't mention). If you trust every other computer (and users) in your internal network *and* you trust your protection from the Internet, then you don't need SSH.

Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-08 Thread yudi v
IIRC there is a version requirement for Samba to play nice with W7.  Google for Samba and Windows 7 Larry The only issue I have with Samba right now is that I have to authenticate from windows every time I reboot either of my systems. Is there a way to stop this. -- Kind regards, Yudi --

Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-08 Thread yudi v
Do you have a non-Win 7 (e.g. XP) that you can try to see if it exhibits the same behavior?  This would probably identify the culprit end Sorry, don't. I am guessing I might have missed a setting somewhere. -- Kind regards, Yudi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-08 Thread yudi v
Distance is irrelevant, but rather how the network itself is shielded from the outside. Kind regards, Andrei I am not sure what you are implying here. I am not changing any network settings nor am I opening up any ports expect when I run xserver on windows. All I am trying to do is use

X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-07 Thread yudi v
Hi all, I am trying to forward X from a Debian PC (laptop) to windows 7 pc (desktop) without using SSH. Will either use xming or mobaxterm on windows 7 pc After some research, it looks like it can be done by copying the X server cookie over to the windows 7 PC. then use the following command

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-22 Thread yudi v
I just realized that I have been launching X session as root, how to launch a new X session without using elevated privileges. -- Kind regards, Yudi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-22 Thread yudi v
Don't login to your shell as root, just as $user, then it's the same: startx Ok I cannot launch X session from tty7, default console, as the normal user. But if I change the allowed_users value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file from console to anybody, I can launch it from tty7. From what I

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread yudi v
The command that you are using is not starting the new xserver in tty1.  It is almost certainly in tty8, the next available tty session.  The :1 is display 1, not tty1.  I use aliases of startx such as: I first log on to tty1 and then run the command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 -- Kind

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread yudi v
The OP didn't, I think, specify that he wants two X sessions with the same user. Yes that is exactly right, I an trying to use two X sessions under one user. -- Kind regards, Yudi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread yudi v
Yes.  See my earlier post.  That is exactly what I do.  In each of the accounts on my box startx is aliased to one of the commands that I mentioned.  This starts up a new X session on the specified vt.  By specifying the vt in the startx command I know that my session is always on vt7, my

Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-20 Thread yudi v
Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 There are couple of issues I am trying to resolve: 1. when I switch back to tty7 X

Re: help with LUKS header backup

2012-01-10 Thread yudi v
Yes, I am using this regularly. Backing up the headers to encrypted media (two preferably) is good practice, even if one can foresee a bit off a circle here ;-) . Header backups are easier to break than original LUKS container. there is only one LUKS header on a disk, right? I have LVM on

help with LUKS header backup

2012-01-08 Thread yudi v
I am trying to back up the LUKS header and LUKS FAQ recommend using the cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup command. Cryptsetup man page has the following format luksHeaderBackup device --header-backup-file file the following example is taken from the LUKS FAQ. cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup

Re: Best remote control software

2012-01-04 Thread yudi v
Do you actually need the display from the laptop to be shown on the desktop machine's monitors? If you just wanted to direct your mouse/keyboard actions you could use Synergy provided you could still see the display. the main reason for this is to use the 24' desktop screen. -- Kind

Re: Best remote control software

2012-01-04 Thread yudi v
Have you tried some of the performance and quality options mentioned in the man page?  It looks like x11vnc has many and diverse options. -solid -wireframe / -nowireframe -speeds n,n,n -xrefresh n -sb 0 I used the first option, will look up the others, Right now I am using -ncache 10

Best remote control software

2012-01-03 Thread yudi v
Currently I am using x11vnc as the server on Debian and tightvnc viewer on Windows 7. Both machines are connected via LAN cable and are only meters apart. Debian is installed on a 12' laptop and windows 7 on a desktop with dual screens, I wanted to see if I can use VNC to access Debian on win7

Re: intel i5, system config question

2011-12-22 Thread yudi v
(please, avoid using html format in your messages, they're hard to read) will do. There's no need to upgrade but install a new kernel in parallel (that way you always keep the stock kernel if something goes wrong) and installing a new kernel -or even compiling one by yoursef- is pretty easy

Re: RAID 1 - software or hardware.

2011-12-21 Thread yudi v
You would need a second compatible hardware raid controller to use in order to extract the data from the drives. The hardware raid controllers I have used have not allowed me to access the data without a compatible raid controller. If it's in RAID 1, I was under the impression that I would

Re: RAID 1 - software or hardware.

2011-12-21 Thread yudi v
I'd go for hardware RAID as long as there is a true and real hardware RAID controller behind with a battery backup et al (in brief, a *good* RAID controller, not the motherboard's one which are usually nothing but fakeraid and a pile of unforeseen problems). Otherwise I would use software

Re: intel i5, system config question

2011-12-21 Thread yudi v
If you are unsure about the hardware support for the i5 chipset in Squeeze, try first with Debian's LiveCD and see how it goes, what it detects, what fails... Greetings, -- Camaleón how easy is it to update to kernel 3+ in squeeze?

Re: RAID 1 - software or hardware.

2011-12-21 Thread yudi v
Might be better to put LUKS on top of LVM instead of vice versa? Not sure. By having LVM over LUKS, I will only have one container to unlock and from what I understand Debian cannot unlock several LUKS containers at start-up unlike Fedora. My laptop currently has LVM over LUKS and works

Re: intel i5, system config question

2011-12-21 Thread yudi v
I'm just curious why you don't have just go with squeeze as an option. Why do you need to change the kernel that comes with it? Intel HD3000 video chip works fine with only kernels over 3.0.1. At least this is what I gather from searching the net. And the i5 I am getting has this chip. --

intel i5, system config question

2011-12-20 Thread yudi v
Hi all, I will be building a new desktop with intel i5. Which option should I choose: go with squeeze and update to kernel 3+ or install Wheezy This will be my main production PC. I would like it to be as stable as possible. -- Kind regards, Yudi

RAID 1 - software or hardware.

2011-12-20 Thread yudi v
Will be installing a new system and would like to have the following set-up: RAID 1 LUKS LVM Should I use the RAID controller on the motherboard (not sure how reliable it will be) or use software RAID? -- Kind regards, Yudi

using kernel 3.0.1+

2011-11-01 Thread yudi v
I will be getting a new desktop with intel i5 2500k CPU, it's got an integrated GPU, I would like to install debian but read that the i5 GPU works without any issues only with the latest kernel. Now I always use the stable version of Debian. I have never used sid. I would like to know how to

Re: Dual monitor setup

2011-10-26 Thread yudi v
Is Debian using nouveau, how to check what driver is being used? You can check /var/log/Xorg.0.log ok also I the issue resolved itself, I read on a forum thread that by turning off the power completely will reset the monitor. I think this issue was triggered by using the monitor on two

Dual monitor setup

2011-10-25 Thread yudi v
Installed Squeeze on my laptop and hooked up an external monitor, worked fine for few days and after a reboot yesterday, there is not output to the external monitor. it's got a message on the screen saying to use optimal resolution 1280 x 1024 60Hz. laptop has an nvidia Gforce 7400 GPU That's

Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread yudi v
I have a Debian PC connected to the Internet via mobile broadband and I have this Internet connection shared with an ubuntu pc via Ethernet connection. Internet connection works fine. I can ping the Debian PC but cannot ping the Ubuntu PC, how come? I would like to share files between these two

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread yudi v
Both, samba and nfs can be overkill for sharing a bunch of files and even harder to manage and setup. OTOH, SSH is just a matter of installing the corresponding package and that's all. SSH will not only help you to securely transmit the files between the two computers but will also help

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread yudi v
even for Linux-only systems, there really is no satisfactory answer to the OP's question besides Samba/CIFS. Samba looks like the best option as I will be adding windows clients and a solaris file server. -- Kind regards, Yudi

linux friendly hardware inquiry/advise

2011-10-19 Thread yudi v
Hi all, Building a new PC, will be used for coding mostly, running 2-3 VMs simultaneously. Debian Linux will be the host OS. I need some suggestions on Motherboards. Which manufacturer has good linux support? Will use Intel on board graphics. No gaming. will use couple of HD monitors. Thats

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-17 Thread yudi v
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries This is not necessary. Menu X, D will allow you to change this to 1. The 2048 value is just wasteful (an overly safe default). Whether you care about losing that 2MB is your call... True I can start at 8, not a big deal. Total free

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-17 Thread yudi v
By default Squeeze installs grub2 Cool, I always get confused with GRUB and GNOME. Is it worth trying amd64 install. I tried this long ago and wasted lot of time trying to get it working. Whats the current status?

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-17 Thread yudi v
Installed Debian i386, will leave 64bit for the next time. Once again, at boot and shut down, the order in which it looks for LVM volumes is incorrect. At boot time, it looks for LVM volumes before opening up the LUKS container. and at shut down, the order is in reverse. I unwittingly went for

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-17 Thread yudi v
Certainly, you are correct :) As general advice, 8 sectors is better because of advanced format. But then you also have to account for modern SSDs, which have erase block sizes between 128 and 512kB (256 or 1024 sectors), and for partitioning hw-raid devices you need to know the stripe size

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-17 Thread yudi v
Or alternatively, install wicd. It seems to be far less temperamental. Thanks. I will need to install the network tool from the ISO image I got, I should be able to mount it and install software from there, right? I remember doing exactly the same with Fedora once.

LVM and LUKS boot order incorrect in initrd image.

2011-10-17 Thread yudi v
Installed Debain i386 twice and both times the order of LVM and LUKS is not correct. I have one LUKS container with LVM on top. At boot time, LVM logical volumes try to load first before I get prompted with the LUKS passphrase and at shutdown, the order is in reverse, tries to close LVM volumes

Re: LVM and LUKS boot order incorrect in initrd image.

2011-10-17 Thread yudi v
I see this, at least at startup. It's been reported here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544651 Celejar That's almost 2 yrs old. From the limited experience I have with this setup, I don't think this should cause any trouble what so ever. I might generate a new initrd,

GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-15 Thread yudi v
Could someone using GPT on a BIOS system confirm if I got the GPT partitioning right on a BIOS system I followed the documentation from http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ This is the out put after partitioning the HDD using Ubuntu 11.10 live CD root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# gdisk /dev/sda GPT fdisk

New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread yudi v
Hi all, Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a new desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy and speed. Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz. I am not going with SSDs as they are beyond my budget. I believe I can get the required

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread yudi v
Software RAID 1 with ext3(4) is a good choice. Yes thats an option but ext4 is severely lacking in comparison to ZFS. As far as I know ZFS is not available in Linux kernel, on other hand I've read that ZFS is slower than UFS on FreeBSD which is slower than ext3 on Linux. I am aware of

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread yudi v
For the desktop a mixed setup can make sense, since there is no need to store movie or music files onto an SSD usually. SSD excel at random I/O workloads with lots of small files. Seagate - possibly others - manufactures a harddisk with SSD cache. This might be an alternative for laptops.

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-16 Thread yudi v
I think it is the ATA Security Erase I wrote about. Tough it seems it may refer to different ways of doing the erase. Not sure how this works but I used Secure-erase-enhance option. It trashed my HDD for 133min. So I am guessing this completely overwrote the drive. This is the best option I

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread yudi v
For SSDs or harddisk which do encryption internally - with or without encryption password in BIOS - an ATA Secure Erase should be enough: http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase Search site:kernel.org secure erase on Google and use webcache as long as kernel.org is down. I

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread yudi v
I used an external USB/eSATA case hooked up via eSATA and then bootet GRML. The BIOS did not protect the external drive and I was able to transfer the ATA Secure Command via eSATA. I bet it might not work via USB tough. Booted from ubuntu live USB, checked if the internal disk was frozen,

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-14 Thread yudi v
Got a reply back from WD asking me to return the drive, I wiped the drive and tested the drive to see if it will throw up errors. Again, both the WD tool and the Debian disk utility do not report any bad sectors. Can anyone explain what's going on? -- Kind regards, Yudi

Wiping hard drives

2011-09-13 Thread yudi v
I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to the manufacturer for replacement. I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX# for the unencrypted partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the LUKS partition to destroy the header file. I just want to

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-13 Thread yudi v
I would do: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX (Note there is no partition number.) I only use sdX# for partitions that are unencrypted. It's redundant to write over a LUKS container. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-13 Thread yudi v
If the drive has encrypted data, then you don't need to wipe much. I would do the following, and call it good: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=100 This will wipe pseudorandom data to the first 100MB of the drive, which should wipe out any of the encrypted header

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-11 Thread yudi v
cfdisk and fdisk are both part of (upstream) util-linux-ng[*1], so both handle large sectors the same. In Squeeze they are both (currently) at 2.17.2-9. I used gparted-live-0.8.1-3 (debian based with 2.6.38 kernel) to partition it, I believe util-linux version on this image is 2.19. Then I

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread yudi v
Have you tried # parted -l, fdisk works with cylinders. here's the parted output: Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-6 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 750GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 1 1049kB 53.7GB

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread yudi v
Use GPD instead of DOS partition types, *and* use parted instead of fdisk. I used fdisk to partition the disk before installing the OS. Just to make sure all the partitions started on the physical sector boundaries. The fdisk output posted above looks fine, doesn't it? I followed this article

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread yudi v
d-i uses parted (partman). I know the first release of Squeeze failed to properly align 4K sectors with partitions - but using the udeb from Wheezy fixed that for me - it could be fixed in a previous point release, and, it could be just a DOS partition table issue (what I used in that

Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-09 Thread yudi v
Disk utility tells that there are bad sectors on the new hard drive. I had the same issue before and I was about to send it back to get it replaced. I wrote random data to the drive and then checked once more to make sure it had bad sectors. This time Disk utility came back saying that the drive

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-09 Thread yudi v
I would simply request for a hard disk replacement, you will rest more relaxed after that :-) I will definitely ask for a replacement as it's still under warranty but I want to make sure it's not a software issue. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-09 Thread yudi v
smartctl -a /dev/sda output smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD7500BPKT-60PK4T0 Serial Number:WD-WX31E1177192 Firmware

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-09 Thread yudi v
I would just return-back the unit. It is clearly new (less than 400 hours of use!) and should not throw any error nor message about its SMART health. This does not have to mean a bad drive per se, of course, but better safe than sorry. If a new unit still fails, I would recheck the cable

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread yudi v
Do you know 'sed' ? `uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` = 686 in my case, that' all sed's doing here. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread yudi v
AFAICT this does not use a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but a device specific configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Since Xorg in Squeeze configures itself automagically it is (IMHO) preferred to manually configure just the devices that you actually want to configure. It might help if I

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread yudi v
Thanks for clarifying that. One final question. What happens to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? It still exits. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-02 Thread yudi v
Hi, I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods *First method * this taken from irc dpkg bot aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` nvidia-kernel-dkms mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ; echo -e 'Section Device\n\tIdentifier My

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-29 Thread yudi v
The following packages will be REMOVED: cifs-utils libnfsidmap2 nfs-common nfs-kernel-server samba samba-common samba-common-bin samba-doc smbclient smbfs swat winbind 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 12 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Remv smbfs [2:4.5-2] Remv cifs-utils [2:4.5-2] Remv

Re: Sqeeze, Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP working with ALSA - Has anyone got it working?

2011-08-29 Thread yudi v
Couln't find any documentation on Bluetooth and ALSA. This link is broken. http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices Ended up installing Pulseaudio. Followed this post. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=12497 Took less than 5 mins. The only thing left is to find out how to get

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-29 Thread yudi v
Probably portmap... See if it's installed $ dpkg --get-selections portmap If it is, and it bothers you, it can be removed - check and see if anything uses it:- # apt-get -s remove portmap | less If it's the only package to be removed:- # apt-get --purge remove portmap Check your

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
I use postpaid mobile broadband and my IP is both the system address and the gateway. There is no NAT with postpaid service, it's only available with prepaid in Australia. Not sure why. Not sure what you mean there I suspect you mean only postpaid allow a static IP address (for some

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
http://myip.dk/ will give you the remote access address. Just ssh to the displayed address. I'd suggest you try - it's easier than just believing everything you read on whirlpool. The signal to noise ratio there can be bad. Exetel have good tech support - Vodaphail don't even know where their

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
# apt-get --purge remove libnfsidmap2 nfs-common samba if you don't use samba at all (cifs-utils samba samba-common samba-common-bin smbfs) then change samba to samba* I'd suggest using -s instead of --purge first - just in case samba was originally pulled in by another package which you

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
/var/log/installer/hardware-summary look at the first line That's looks right, cannot find a date older than that. Jun 11 also look at the modify time for /etc/issue Modified time is newer. - Aug 1 -- Kind regards, Yudi

Sqeeze, Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP working with ALSA - Has anyone got it working?

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Hi All, I am trying to get Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP working with ALSA. Not much documentation available for ALSA, there are few for Pulseaudio. If there is no possibility of these Bluetooth profiles working with ALSA, probably will go with Pulse. I came across some discussion but

Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? -- Kind regards, Yudi

securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Nmap suggests the following ports are open: 25/tcp open smtp 111/tcp open rpcbind 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 445/tcp open microsoft-ds 631/tcp open ipp 901/tcp open samba-swat 2049/tcp open nfs I run a desktop email client that uses smtp apart from that I do not know why rest of the

Re: Sqeeze, Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP working with ALSA - Has anyone got it working?

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
I have always manually switched under linux, and I miss that functionality when using my windows installation, as it sometimes gives me music over the headset profile, which sounds terrible. I will not say much about windows here but see if you have two devices under Sound, video and game

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Just to clarify my original post. I want to find out when I installed and booted Debian for the very first time. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Just to clarify my post. This is a new install and I was a bit careless while installing. It has no data on it. I was more concerned with LUKS+LVM working at install. I did not realize I selected to install SSH, I do not use Samba or NFS not sure how those got installed. Again it might have been

Re: LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-24 Thread yudi v
There should be none. Note, however, that /dev/mapper/ may contain non-LVM specials as well, such as cryptsetup(8) ones. My guess is that /dev/VG/LV may provide some sort of backwards compatibility, as LVM may have been implemented before Linux's

LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread yudi v
I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv someone suggested I use: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv What's the difference? -- Kind regards, Yudi

LUKS and LVM sequence at boot and shutdown incorrect

2011-08-19 Thread yudi v
My laptop hard drive configuration: sda1 - win7 sda2 - /boot sda3 - LVM on top of LUKS partition - (separate LVs for /, /home, and SWAP) sda5 - FAT32 for the most part everything seems to be working fine except the order of modules/components when Debian boots up. When I boot Debian, it first

Re: LUKS and LVM sequence at boot and shutdown incorrect

2011-08-19 Thread yudi v
Did you try to use the early option in cryptsetup ? It make sthe luks part being done earlier at boot time (in the cryptdisks-early boot script). did not know that, thanks for pointing it out. I did not read anything about it in the installation documentation. I thought the installer will be

Re: LUKS and LVM sequence at boot and shutdown incorrect

2011-08-19 Thread yudi v
Thinking about it there surely is something to do about the initrd.img, I thought so too. looks like I need to build a new initrd.img. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Installing firmware not available in the kernel

2011-08-15 Thread yudi v
There has to be some instructions in the docs... let me check it. http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB *** I should have looked harder, thanks for directing my attention to the documentation. should I just copy dvb-usb-af9015.fw to /lib/firmware Yep, so it seems and

Re: Desktop client(Evolution, Thunderbird): Yahoo, ymail, rocketmail IMAP access

2011-08-14 Thread yudi v
For Yahoo the answer is yes, and no. Yahoo provide IMAP access but try and restrict it to mobile devices that won't run their Zimbra client. You'll have to make your MUA spoof a mobile device id - and you'll be on a treadmill... imap.mail.yahoo.com; SSL – port 993 My question was

Re: Desktop client(Evolution, Thunderbird): Yahoo, ymail, rocketmail IMAP access

2011-08-14 Thread yudi v
I guess the status quo has not changed over the last 4 years. There are lot of hacks for different clients but was hoping yahoo would make the IMAP access freely available. Scott's suggestion to make MUA spoof a mobile device id or to use Mutt dont look like much of an improvement over Zimbra.

Re: How to install non-free firmware after installing Debian

2011-08-13 Thread yudi v
Thanks -- Kind regards, Yudi

Installing firmware not available in the kernel

2011-08-13 Thread yudi v
Hi, I am trying to get my USB DVB-T tuner working, dmesg says it needs dvb-usb-af9015.fw firmware, and also http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DigitalNow_TinyTwin_DVB-T_Receiver says it's supported since 2.6.34 (version2), I am on 2.6.32, should I move to 2.6.34 or higher or is there another way

Re: Installing firmware not available in the kernel

2011-08-13 Thread yudi v
The card seems detected so why not installing the suggested firmware (review the mentioned doc for instructions on how to do this) and check if that works? :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón I am not sure how to do this. should I just copy dvb-usb-af9015.fw to /lib/firmware Or should I install

Desktop client(Evolution, Thunderbird): Yahoo, ymail, rocketmail IMAP access

2011-08-13 Thread yudi v
Hi, Is Yahoo, Ymail, Rocketmail access (I am talking about the free access, not paid) still restricted using IMAP. I was using Zimbra and it works fine. Just installed a new system and was wondering if Yahoo made IMAP accessible to all the clients like Evolution and Thunderbird. Or is my only

Re: restoring GRUB after windows 7 install along side Debian set-up with LUKS+LVM

2011-08-12 Thread yudi v
W7 does not mangle the mbr any longer. After install, go to debian and run update-grub to get a bootable W7. Thierry This is incorrect. Win 7 will definitely wipe out GRUB. There are several ways to restore GRUB. It really depends on how one configured his setup. I had the following

Re: restoring GRUB after windows 7 install along side Debian set-up with LUKS+LVM

2011-08-12 Thread yudi v
W7 does not mangle the mbr any longer. After install, go to debian and run update-grub to get a bootable W7. Thierry This is incorrect. Win 7 will definitely wipe out GRUB. There are several ways to restore GRUB. It really depends on how one configured his setup. I had the following

restoring GRUB after windows 7 install along side Debian set-up with LUKS+LVM

2011-08-11 Thread yudi v
Hi I will be installing Windows7 along side Debian on a 4 KB sector hard drive. Debian's configured with LVM on top of LUKS. From what I understand I can restore GRUB using the Debian install disk by going in to the advanced options and choosing rescue mode. What are the potential issues I need

How to install non-free firmware after installing Debian

2011-08-11 Thread yudi v
I installed Debian on a laptop and did not install the non-free firmware while installing Debian as I did not have the firmware files. During initial install, the installer detected the wireless card and prompted me to make the firmware available. I need to install* Intel(R) PRO/Wireless

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-25 Thread yudi v
Thanks Paul. Was having a tough time trying to understand. Instead of saying the following: It is highly advisable to only use the 94 printable characters from the first 128 characters of the ASCII table it would have been easier to understand if they simply said to use characters between 0x21

What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread yudi v
Hi all, The 94 printable characters from the first 128 characters of the ASCII table are the the ones with Hex Codes 0x20 to 0x7E. Is this right? -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread yudi v
+1000, yudi v wrote: The 94 printable characters from the first 128 characters of the ASCII table are the the ones with Hex Codes 0x20 to 0x7E. Is this right? http://www.asciitable.com/ -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o

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