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Kali-Linux
by Scott Junner 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

I still haven't managed to get Linux installed on a separate partition on my desktop. I can get it to go through the process to a point, then it freezes up and I boot back to windows to try and figure out why. For now that's another story. While I'm reading stuff, I've come across Kali -Linux, which is very interesting and confusing. On the downloads page it only seems to have a download for VMWare (amd64). Does this mean I have to run VMWare and then install Kali-Linux as a virtual machine within...say...Windows, or is there a way to install it as the Primary OS? Is that even a good idea? I don't get it? What's this thing with VMWare? By extension, does this also mean that when PenTesting a virtual machine like Metasploitable I end up with a Virtual Machine within a Virtual Machine. This is getting a little like a nightmare strait out of 'Inception'. Surely this can't be right. Cheers Scott

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Black screen of born-dead
by Scott Junner 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hey luv. I've recently installed linux (openSUSE) on my laptop, Yay. It works, Yay. And now I'm trying to install linux on my brand spanking new, you beaut, ridgy didge desktop computer and I get nothing. I mean nothing. Zero feedback, except for nothing which in some philosophical circles is still considered something. But frankly philosophers are not going to help me here. What I did: 1. while in windows, download 'openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso' from the openSUSE website. 2. Insert blank DVD into DVD drive. 3. double left click on file which opens Nero dialogue box all ready to burn .iso file onto a DVD. 4. click the burn button, wait, done, success. 5. restart computer What happens same each time: 1. computer starts up 2. DVD drive engages 3. DVD drive winds up 4. nothing. 5. blank screens (x2) I've walked a way from the computer and left it some room to think about what it's doing. Time did not seem to improve the state of nothingness. Thanks for your help if you can. Scott.

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Cross-Compiling for Armv7
by Robert Brown 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hi Is anyone able to offer helpful tips or new directions with this: I am wanting to use a usb device with ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T on a MK802II mini pc using the Allwinner A10 cpu. This device requires modules rtl2830.ko, rtl2832.ko and dvb_usb_rtl28xxu. The second of these modules does not seem to exist without patches on kernel 3.4 but on a raspberry pi I have been successful using kernel 3.10.25+. Here is the relevant lsmod from the pi: r820t 16279 1 rtl2832 8020 1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu 14333 1 dvb_usb_v2 14860 1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu rc_core 16313 3 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu,dvb_usb_v2 rtl2830 7378 1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu dvb_core 92797 3 rtl2830,rtl2832,dvb_usb_v2 However when I try to compile a kernel for the A10 with 3.10.25+ I have no success. If I use the raspi sources for the cross-compile: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/archive/rpi-3.10.y.tar.gz I get errors that seem unresolvable: e.g.: undefined reference to `v6wbi_flush_kern_tlb_range' If I use the sunxi kernel source: https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/tree/reference-3.10 the compile completes without error and I get modules and a uImage file but the device won't boot I am using this as a guide: http://jas-hacks.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/hackberry-a10-compiling-kernel-arm… I have tried using various .config files as a starting point including the pi and from the earlier 3.4 kernel without success Does anyone have any experience in this area? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Rob

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Re: [luv-beginners] Replacement battery for an OLPC XO-1
by forster＠ozonline.com.au 14 May '13

14 May '13

> Hello all, > Not sure if I'm asking in the right place but does anyone have any > suggestions on where to buy a replacement battery for my XO-1? > I went to the website http://ilovemyxo.wordpress.com/ but it seems that > they only ship replacement batteries to US addresses. Thanks in advance > for any help/pointers. > Best wishes, > Aaron Hi You could try OLPC Australia in Sydney. If you have contributed to XO software development or intending to, that could help you, so mention it. If you have been active in XO software development, the OLPC team in the USA would help you (lists.laptop.org) Tony

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Replacement battery for an OLPC XO-1
by Aaron Cook 14 May '13

14 May '13

Hello all, Not sure if I'm asking in the right place but does anyone have any suggestions on where to buy a replacement battery for my XO-1? I went to the website http://ilovemyxo.wordpress.com/ but it seems that they only ship replacement batteries to US addresses. Thanks in advance for any help/pointers. Best wishes, Aaron

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what is happening
by Steve Roylance 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

hi I have 2 boxes side by side both have gigabit ethernet connected to a switch on the desk. The source is an i3-550 with /home mounted from an md0-array of 4*1TB drives in a raid5 config and the sink is an E2200 with /home on 1 disk and an nfs mount point issue command mv Fedora-18-x64.iso from source sink. The transfer starts at 350Mb/s for about 200MB then drops to 500kb/s for the rest. Steve

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Re: [luv-beginners] Dialup on Ubuntu 9.04
by Andrew McGlashan 06 Jan '13

06 Jan '13

Hi, On 27/04/2009 11:12 AM, Brian Clarkson wrote: > This may be a useful reference: > > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/setting-up-dial-up-connection-in-ubuntu.html > <http://www.ubuntugeek.com/setting-up-dial-up-connection-in-ubuntu.html> That's a rather old post from 2006. My preference would be to use WiFi or Ethernet and have another device handle the dialup and firewall duties; perhaps Clear OS, IPCop, Smoothwall, pfSense or some other distro dedicated for the job. Cheers AndrewM

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Re: [luv-beginners] Spideroak and LMDE
by Tim Hamilton 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Anne, thanks so much. I suspected the proxy may have had something to do with it, but was certain I had entered proxy info correctly having read & reread the page you link to. Seems the issue was with the proxy host resolving as swapping out the url for the ip has solved the issue. Once again, thanks. Tim Hamilton On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Anne <anne(a)cohsoft.com.au> wrote: > Hi Tim > > The proxy could be the problem. Try altering the settings. See > > https://spideroak.com/faq/questions/27/how_do_i_make_spideroak_connect_usin > .. > > I doubt it will be anything to do with 64 vs 32 bit. I am running > both, on different machines of course. > > Could be a python library version incompatibility, but the error > message you quoted doesn't make that likely. > > Cheers, > Anne. > > On 20 November 2012 14:03, Tim Hamilton <hamilton.tim(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your clear run through Anne. > > > > Aside from checking my account via the web I had tried everything that > you > > suggested this morning, though to be sure I've just done it again. > > > > Again SpiderOak fails with the same error message, both with the GUI and > at > > the commandline. > > > > For the record, I have another machine at home with a fresh LMDE (32bit) > > install that I installed SpiderOak on with no issues last evening. The > > differences between the machines that I can see are the age of the > installs > > (this one is over 12 months old), the architectures (one 32bit one > 64bit), > > and the fact that the machine here at the university uses a web proxy to > > access the internet. > > > > I guess the next thing to try may be to force an install of the 32bit > deb to > > rule out the package, though I'd really rather not do that. > > > > Cheers for your help > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Anne <anne(a)cohsoft.com.au> wrote: > >> > >> Some things to try, if you haven't already: > >> > >> - make sure your squeeze install is up to date. An old python might > >> cause problems, though I admit this is unlikely > >> > >> - login to the SpiderOak web site, and make sure your account appears > >> to be registered and active > >> > >> - uninstall (aptitude --purge, or similar), delete any .SpiderOak > >> directory under your home directory, then install and try again. It is > >> possible for the db in .SpiderOak to get corrupt. > >> > >> - see if you have a .SpiderOak directory in your home directory. If > >> so, look for files with names matching spideroak*.log. Look at the > >> newest one, and see if it gives any more useful information. It might > >> show how far the process got before it died, or might have a warning > >> message that pinpoints the cause > >> > >> - if you are comfortable enough on the command line, uninstall > >> (again!), delete any .SpiderOak directory, install using dpkg, then > >> configure from the command line following instructions at > >> > >> > https://spideroak.com/faq/questions/1017/how_do_i_set_up_a_new_user_from_th… > >> It might not work, but at least you'll get a better idea of which > >> step is failing > >> > >> I have SpiderOak running on several machines. On most the install and > >> config were straight forward, but a couple caused me problems for some > >> unknown reason. Trying the sorts of things listed above got them > >> working, after which the software mostly worked well. > >> > >> Let me know how you go. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Anne. > >> > >> On 20 November 2012 10:55, Tim Hamilton <hamilton.tim(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Hi Anne, > >> > > >> > Look like I provided only part of my footnote there. I've downloaded > the > >> > Spideroak client as a 64 bit deb direct from their website > >> > (https://spideroak.com/opendownload/) which shows as ver 9948. > >> > > >> > The client starts correctly however when I enter my login credentials > it > >> > crashes with the above error. The same behaviour occurs from both the > >> > gui > >> > and command line. > >> > > >> > > >> > Cheers > >> > Tim > >> > > >> > > >> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Anne <anne(a)cohsoft.com.au> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hi Tim > >> >> > >> >> I use the SpiderOak client under Debian, so might be able to help. > >> >> > >> >> What are the steps that lead to the error? And what version of the > >> >> client are you installing? > >> >> > >> >> Cheers, > >> >> Anne. > >> >> > >> >> On 20 November 2012 10:26, Tim Hamilton <hamilton.tim(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > Hi all, > >> >> > > >> >> > I'm trying to install the Spideroak Debian client[1] on my LMDE > >> >> > machine > >> >> > however get the following Twisted Python error: Failure running > >> >> > setup: > >> >> > twisted.python.failure.Failure invalid literal for int() with base > >> >> > 10: > >> >> > '' > >> >> > > >> >> > I can't find anything in the Spideroak documentation that's of help > >> >> > and > >> >> > a > >> >> > google of the error itself only shows up a bunch of Python unit > tests > >> >> > that > >> >> > are, unfortunately, over my head. > >> >> > > >> >> > Any pointers on where to begin w/ this appreciated. > >> >> > > >> >> > Tim Hamilton > >> >> > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > luv-beginners mailing list > >> >> > luv-beginners(a)lists.luv.asn.au > >> >> > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-beginners > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd > >> >> PO Box 2773 > >> >> Cheltenham Vic 3192 > >> >> Phone: (03) 9585 6788 > >> >> Fax: (03) 9585 1086 > >> >> Web: http://www.cohsoft.com.au/ > >> >> Email: sales(a)cohsoft.com.au > >> >> > >> >> Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system > >> >> http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/ > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Vote NO in referenda. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd > >> PO Box 2773 > >> Cheltenham Vic 3192 > >> Phone: (03) 9585 6788 > >> Fax: (03) 9585 1086 > >> Web: http://www.cohsoft.com.au/ > >> Email: sales(a)cohsoft.com.au > >> > >> Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system > >> http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/ > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Vote NO in referenda. > > > > -- > Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd > PO Box 2773 > Cheltenham Vic 3192 > Phone: (03) 9585 6788 > Fax: (03) 9585 1086 > Web: http://www.cohsoft.com.au/ > Email: sales(a)cohsoft.com.au > > Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system > http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/ > -- Vote NO in referenda.

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Spideroak and LMDE
by Tim Hamilton 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hi all, I'm trying to install the Spideroak Debian client[1] on my LMDE machine however get the following Twisted Python error: Failure running setup: twisted.python.failure.Failure invalid literal for int() with base 10: '' I can't find anything in the Spideroak documentation that's of help and a google of the error itself only shows up a bunch of Python unit tests that are, unfortunately, over my head. Any pointers on where to begin w/ this appreciated. Tim Hamilton

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Changing permissions for an external hard drive
by Peter Wolf 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hello, I was trying to backup some data from a Ubuntu 12.04 linux installation when all of a sudden the external hard drive I was using (My Passport 300Gb) changed to read only.I have spent about 2 hours trying to set the permission back to read write without success.For example I have tried the following command sudo chmod 755 "/media/My Passport" and sudo chmod 777 "/media/My Passport" the message given both times was chmod: changing permissions of `/media/My Passport': Read-only file system I'd also like to mention that I do not recommend Ubuntu 12.04 to anyone as it has far too many bugs to be usable.Linux Mint is much better for example. I hope someone can help me to get my external drive back to read write mode. regards Peter

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