e addition is done to verify that all
the numbers were entered correctly.
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I use a Python interpreter in a terminal or libreoffice-calc.
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? What is the minimum security procedure to follow
when installing third party provided .deb packages?
Also consider using the open-source megatools package. 1.10.0 has just
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against libcurl4, which is
not present on stretch, so you may need a package built for stretch.
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On 25/07/18 09:51, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 25/07/18 03:45, Anil Duggirala wrote:
I am thinking about installing the Mega.nz app on my Debian Stretch
installation. They provide a .deb package. Is there anything I can do
to ensure this is a safe package? To know that this package
tervention.
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I'm wrong though?
You may be proven right, but, because it is impossible to prove a
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On 30/08/2018 07:18, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 30/08/2018 03:46, Default User wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libsane1 : Breaks: libsane (< 1.0.27-1) but 1.0.25-4.1 is installed
libsane : Depends: libsane-common (= 1.0.25-4.1) but
1.0.27-1~experiment
On 01/09/2018 15:14, Default User wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 21:00 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 30/08/2018 07:18, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 30/08/2018 03:46, Default User wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libsane1 : Breaks: libsane (< 1.0.27-1) but 1.0.25-
saw the same message and took it as a harmless warning.
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now, unstable)]
2) libsane1 [Not Installed]
3) sane-utils [1.0.25-4.1 (now)]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
I always choose "Y". I keep waiting for the situation to resolve itself,
but it never does.
Insight?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905913
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-4.9.0-6-amd64
To check the installed version:
dpkg -l linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64
It should be 4.9.88-1+deb9u1.
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s with:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
This will upgrade all packages on your system. If you have installed
linux-image-amd64, this should automatically install
linux-image-3.16.0-6-amd64 3.16.56-1+deb8u1.
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the router itself). You will
likely need two connections: one for your main connection and one for
your VPN. I suggest adding custom DNS servers under your VPN connection
settings.
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with
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recommend instead using nm-connection-editor.
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CUPS/foomatic generic driver support. PostScript is lovely,
but can sometimes be afflicted by crazy font substitution problems that
do not seem to affect PCL6.
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/GIMP/2.10 out of the way in case it has fallen down and cannot
get up.
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and likely the debug packages for
wherever it is hanging.
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sample looks very much like the HTML previews on this page:
https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/caladea
I expect that it could be recreated or customised with a small amount of
HTML and CSS and an HTML rendering engine such as a web browser,
interactive or headless.
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ip=192.168.1.11
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/opt/experiment
I cannot reproduce this behaviour on a local ext4 filesystem. As soon as
access is removed, a nonprivileged user cannot cd to or list contents of
the test directory.
Do you have any network filesystems involved in this test?
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ane config:
brsaneconfig4 -a name=Brother_MFC-L2740DW model=MFC-L2740DW ip=192.168.1.11
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On 13/03/18 10:56, Long Wind wrote:
what should i do now?
Can you add it as a new Ethernet device in NetworkManager?
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On 14/03/18 06:12, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Perhaps Python
+1 for Python as a first language. What ages and areas of interest?
Debian Live will have some Python and text editors. I also recommend
that you check out PyGame, SciPy, and Jupyter.
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, LibreOffice lets me get small things done more quickly. I
recommend it.
You can use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, producing delicious nut
butter, if you do not mind the crunchy bits of shell. :-)
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recommends network-manager-gnome (and thus
network-manager) on sid and stretch:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/task-xfce-desktop
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have /etc/adjtime? This file will persist drift information and
hardware clock time zone. Try deleting it.
I do not think this is a time zone issue; hwclock displays time in your
local time zone even when stored in UTC.
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le hyphens not "––" double
en-dashes. Rick's email client (Mac OS X Mail 7.3?) has (un)helpfully
converted the hyphens to en-dashes (0x96 in charset=windows-1252), which
will not work when cut and pasted to a terminal.
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ith the "M" button. For more, see Help /XSane doc.
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detected as line out (not
headphones). I am using "Analog Stereo Duplex" in Configuration and
"Line Out" in "Output Devices". Do you have any HDMI devices connected
or listed as Configuration options?
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l them.
It is usually safe to have unused drivers so feel free to plan ahead and
install all drivers you need before you migrate.
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be specified
with Schematron (an ISO standard). JSON Schema is only an IETF draft.
JSONP allows avoidance of JavaScript XMLHttpRequest same-origin rules
and has increased the popularity of JSON, but the modern solution is CORS.
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upgrade) Jenkins plugins, which you can do
from within Jenkins itself.
As an alternative to self-hosting, projects on GitHub can use Travis CI.
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e that a Character object
encapsulates) are based on the original Unicode specification, which
defined characters as fixed-width 16-bit entities."
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html
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). Anyone using 3.x or early 4.x kernels
on Skylake is going to have a bad time i.e. wheezy or jessie without
jessie-backports). 4.9 should be fine. There is a 4.15 kernel on
unstable and stretch-backports.
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vices filter it.
There are other solutions including a VPN which tunnels connections
between a PC and a server on the public internet.
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192.168.43.0/24 or some
other block. What is the netmask?
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://stackoverflow.com/questions/38346195/android-network-bridge-between-usb-tethering-wifi-hotspot-interfaces
You will need a root shell on the phone. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
is already set to "1" on my phone.
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style (eth0, eth1, wlan0, ...) interface names
that are not generated from the hardware MAC address, append the kernel
command line parameter net.ifnames=0 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in
/etc/default/grub, run update-grub, and restart.
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looks
down from here. "
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On 17/04/18 11:08, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:46:43 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies said:
The key question here is whether the phone is connected to a cellular
network or to the WiFi hotspot. The route will be very different.
I don't think the OP is looking for routing thru
On 17/04/18 11:07, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 17/04/18 10:46, Long Wind wrote:
my android phone offers Internet connection to 2 PCsone PC is
connected to phone thru USB line, tetherthe other is connected to
phone's WLAN hot spot
Aha! I had not thought of that. I have never tried
be able to achieve your goals with a
UTF locale.
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content (e.g. LUKS) before
writing to any media, to provide an additional layer of protection.
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On 02/04/18 19:39, Andre Majorel wrote:
On 2018-04-02 08:00 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
Why? UTF (especially UTF-8) is vastly superior for all purposes:
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 nontrivial:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
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remove unwanted entries under "One-Click Search Engines".
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had previously.
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hree boxes above.
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Years
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firefox-master-password-system-has-been-poorly-secured-for-the-past-9-years/
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using a mount point with root:root ownership and no access
to others to prevent unintentional modification while /home/dennis is
not mounted.
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environment variables from their parent. (And
note that I assume $PATH and $HOME do not require quoting.)
The file is a script so it must be executable:
chmod 700 ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc
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http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
For example, for stretch amd64:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.4.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/
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erstanding of how
it works.
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On 22/02/18 14:27, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 22/02/18 09:50, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 22/02/18 04:19, Pétùr wrote:
I recently experimented some crashes on debian sid.
The system becomes unresponsive and falls back to the login (lightdm)
window after few minutes.
Here is the dmesg log
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platform for Java development.
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The specific case of webmail likely requires read-write access to user
mailboxes. I do not know how privilege separation is handled in this case.
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automatically regain them. Postgres and Tomcat do the
same thing with their own dedicated users.
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in a virtual machine and have the best of
both worlds.
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iki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_Debian#Iceweasel>.
In June 2016, the iceweasel package was replaced with the firefox-esr
package.
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Applications (SPA) are a plague on
the internet. I prefer RESTful architectures.
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/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never used it:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin
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On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote:
How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all
the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?
I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never
yll
Only affects building this package, not end users.
Summary:
apt(1 bug), colord(1 bug), libtracker-sparql-2.0-0(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] n
At this point, instead of "n", just press "Enter".
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ance tasks.
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Apr 15 2017 apt-daily.service -> /dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 15 2017 apt-daily.timer -> /dev/null
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or filtering on file type), I use
find.
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in this case because it is what I mean (counting
entries one per line).
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is physically about 82 dpi (27" 1080p)), the old
interpreter might be worth a try.
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device, unless the mouse adapter just will not work with a hub at
using a particular specification. The hub is internal and typically on
the motherboard. The front USB ports I have seen are connected to the
same hub so I would expect both to work or neither.
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ric encryption, if
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l and use
use "sudo -i".
For installed Debian, login and password are set at install time.
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On 12/09/2018 14:56, Default User wrote:
Arch?
[...]
But the wiki is good . . .
(And much of it is applicable to other distributions, including Debian.)
+1 for the Arch wiki. I haver never used Arch, but the Arch wiki has
helped me many times.
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on the
server? Is there a firewall on the server? Try:
ssh -vvv zhou@192.168.1.3
to see the full connection attempt. You can also check whether the port
is open with (on the client):
nmap -p 22 192.168.1.3
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On 05/05/2019 10:52, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for
Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart Firefox on Debian.
Seems fixed in firefox 66.0.4-1 on Debian sid
Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for
Firefox 66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart Firefox on Debian.
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On 05/05/2019 21:30, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 10:52:56AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
Setting about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required to false fixed
extensions for me for firefox 66.0.1-1 amd64 on Debian sid and for Firefox
66.0.2 on Android. I needed to restart
On 19/08/2019 08:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
This is actually for me a filter criterion: if a site doesn't work
with javascript, chances are high that I avoid it. I do make some
exceptions, but very few.
I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it.
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for some elements), everything else works for me as well as in 4.12 and
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lock, so I
consider it too vulnerable for use. There is a bug report.
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. Restricting the WPA2 passphrase
to digits and lowercase letters reduces entropy but makes input more
bearable. Seeing the reaction of guests when they are handed a piece of
paper with a long random WPA2 passphrase: priceless. It never gets old. :-D
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; it).
New Zealand banned pure software patents in 2013:
How New Zealand banned software patents without violating international law
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. What is your background?
A great way to learn is to choose an open source project that uses a
language of interest to you and contribute bug fixes to it. Proven
ability on open source projects is a great way of building your resume.
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pins."
[...]
"In April 2019, a 27-year-old Indian former student of the College of
Saint Rose, Vishwanath Akuthota, pleaded guilty to destroying 59
computers in his college using a USB killer, resulting in over $50,000
in damages."
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ose on BadUSB. One or two were enough for me to
never want to use a USB thumb drive of unknown provenance. That is all I
know.
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(Prime95) is useful for stress testing a CPU.
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f prefs.js with:
find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name prefs.js
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ected gvfs* packages so this is not
the problem.
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o remove gvfs-backends
during the python3.8 transition, but you are on buster so should not
have been affected, and I do not think gvfs-backends provides the
handler for trash: urls.
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On 06/03/2020 11:29, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
What gvfs packages do you have installed? See with:
dpkg -l "gvfs*"
Some gvfs-* packages are optional and one might include the handler for
trash: urls.
apt-get dist-upgrade on sid recently tried to remove gvfs-backends
during the
On 06/03/2020 11:39, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
I tried purging gvfs-backends and was still able to access Trash via
Thunar, so missing this package is not likely to be your issue.
But if I purge gvfs itself, Trash vanishes from Thunar and cannot be
accessed by manually entering the location
organization give
disproportionate weight to trivial issues".
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for
interoperability (and are willing to sacrifice Unix permissions and file
size), do not overlook the robustness and ubiquity of ext4.
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(most recently, a tiny overclock that seemed
safe and harmless but caused intermittent corruption). Integrated GPUs
are totally reliant on system RAM.
There is also gputest, but I have not used it.
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