luv-main May 2015

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23 discussions

Deleting cache trash OK, outside of Firefox?

by Carl Turney

Hi again All, Prior to doing the complete system backups (as outlined in my last email), I enter Firefox and clear all history. But, during the backup (after booting into Recovery mode), rsync displays the copying of MANY files within this directory... /home/user/.cache/mozilla/firefox/abcd1234.default/cache2/trash/3363925 Given the names of some of those directories, I wonder if it is safe to delete them (rm -r) just before the backup? If so, at which level... trash? cache2? Thanks very much, in advance. Carl Turney Bayswater, Victoria

7 years, 1 month

Apt-get issue.

by Daniel Jitnah

Hi Luvers, how do I override suggested dependencies using apt-get which conflicts with already installed software that provides equivalent functionalities? For example: If I install phpmyadmin usign apt-get, it will also install apache2, and if I already have say nginx installed, it will remove it, and replace it with apache. But I want to keep nginx. How do I get apt-get to install phpmyadmin while keeping nginx? Thanks Daniel

7 years, 1 month

Error msg on boot of near-clone (UUID prob)

by Carl Turney

Hi All, BACKGROUND: Am a single-system home-office user of Linux. Not a professional sysadmin. Running Linux Mint 17 Qiana, desktop, 64-bit Intel. My "total system backup" scheme has been (for the last ~10 years) to run rsync (in a script, from / recursively), onto similarly-formatted/installed disks. Has worked perfectly over the years, on Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mint... as backups are essentially clones, and become new master disks in the event of crashes. Am currently doing backups while in Recovery mode, after mounting the target as an external USB drive. (I originally powered up with the backups as a second IDE or SATA, but recent versions of Ubuntu/Mint won't allow booting like that. Found that going via USB does work, although probably much slower.) Have spent MANY hours researching the bootup process, and sending questions relevant to my objectives to LUV, SiliconValley LUG, LinuxMint Forum, GRUB Developers, etc. Questions not suitably answered. So gave up getting help, and have edited... /etc/default/grub /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib /etc/fstab /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume ... in ways that worked previously and/or seemed the most logical to one barely grasping the mechanisms. Then ran update-grub If interested: I can email you directly with copies of those 4 files, or lists of the 4 edits that I performed. I can also email you the you-beaut backup script utilising rsync. PROBLEM: When booting up with a backup (near-clone), in place of the master disk, I get the following error message, just after the GRUB2 (?) menu... Error: No such device: c2oc...07CB (i.e. the UUID of the master/source disk) Press any key to continue... Then, after ~4 seconds, and without tapping any key, it just continues with the boot-up sequence and the entire system seems to run normally. QUESTIONS: Should I harbour any concerns? Suggestions on how to refine/bulletproof the current general scheme (rather than use a different scheme)? Thanks very much in advance. Carl Turney Bayswater, Victoria

7 years, 1 month

Xorg doesn't like new ATI card

by Russell Coker

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Bonaire XTX [Radeon R7 260X] I've just got a new ATI video card, above is the LSPCI output. The Xorg driver from Debian/Unstable doesn't seem to like the card (I've attached the Xorg logs). Any suggestions as to what I should do? Previously the card worked with the VESA driver but I purged the VESA driver to force it to use the ATI driver. The system is running kernel 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 (Jessie kernel). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

7 years, 1 month

Problems with google maps after firefox froze

by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au

Hi, all I have been using google maps in full mode to measure distances, Now a few weeks ago while using firefox the system froze. I did a cold reset and after that google maps will only run in lite mode. With Chromium its the, same one cannot switch maps to full mode. Now this is in itself not an issue as Googleearth works well and has better path tools, I am just curious what has changed in Debian to stop google maps switching to full mode. Glxinfo shows X still has 3D accelaration. Lindsay W

7 years, 1 month

Re: [luv-talk] [OT] Lenovo caught pre-installing adware on laptops

by Michele Bert

2015-05-05 15:04 GMT+02:00 Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglashan(a)affinityvision.com.au>: > What is ITYM????? > Thanks a lot for asking. I'm curious too, but I've given up long time ago to ask (or even search on the web) for acronyms' meaning... However, you know: a project will never succeed, unless it is associated to a smart TLA, will it? :-D -- Mick

7 years, 1 month

Re: [luv-talk] Lenovo caught pre-installing adware on laptops - Security - News - iTnews.com.au

by Davor Balder

> On 4 May 2015, at 5:37 pm, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan(a)affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > > On 4/05/2015 8:52 AM, Davor Balder wrote: >> The only way around this would be to install your own trustworthy OS of >> choice and treat your purchase as purchase of hardware only. Most (if >> not all) people on this list are already doing this > > True, but the time of buying a Windows appliance is upon us now or very > soon. Windows 10 will require UEFI with secure boot turned on and it > may or may not allow secure boot to be turned off AND it may only have > keys that work for Windows boxen. When that happens, you'll have an > appliance that will run Windows and it won't run anything else. > Unfortunate, but true consequence of the stupidity that is presented by UEFI. However, I believe there will be some distributions that will work with UEFI (RedHat?, Ubuntu?). We may have reduced choice. I think distro needs to have some keys that will allow it to work with UEFI. I also read somewhere they (manufacturers) will have to allow installation of alternative OS’s. If this is the case, then UEFI will not have any point. At the very worst, you will (possibly) be able to buy only certain hardware that will allow UEFI to be turned off (assuming this is permitted by some and not allowed by others). Interesting times ahead… As a side note, I believe I have encountered UEFI on Lenovo hardware in the last few months and have been able to disable it with no problems. However, this may not be guaranteed in the future (despite reports I heard to the contrary). > A. > > _______________________________________________ > luv-talk mailing list > luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk

7 years, 1 month

Re: [luv-talk] How feasible are secure drop-boxes for "IT naive whistleblowers" ?

by Davor Balder

> On 4 May 2015, at 3:09 pm, Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au> wrote: > > Russell Coker wrote: >> On Sat, 2 May 2015, Jason White <jason(a)jasonjgw.net> wrote: >>> Morrie Wyatt <morrie(a)morrie.id.au> wrote: >>>> (Not that I'm saying that snail mail is free from >>>> risk either, but >>>> a letter can be dropped in a post box anywhere, so the chance of being >>>> exposed is >>>> minimal, or at least can be minimised by taking the fairly simple >>>> precautions of using >>>> generic stationary, print the content using standard fonts on a common >>>> model of >>>> printer, and random choice of post box to send the letter on its way.) >>> Some printers, unfortunately, embed subtle identifying information in their >>> output. >> https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking- >> dots >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography > > Russell, > both these seem to refer exclusively to laser-printers; > a quick google didn't seem to find similar issues with ink-jets; > absence of evidence, is evidence of absence ? :-) > > regards Rohan McLeod Gents, if you are concerned about traceability, there are (certain) colour laser printers that print their ‘fingerprint’ which will point to that particular printer. NB: Not every laser printer will do this. Only some (as per reports). I am now aware of inkjets being affected by the same issue, nor I am aware of b&w laser printers that are ’traceable’. Ignorance is a bliss in this regard. One needs to be very careful… Cheers, DB > _______________________________________________ > luv-talk mailing list > luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk

7 years, 2 months

flightgear

by Russell Coker

I just installed flightgear on a AMD64 system running Debian/Jessie. I ran it but before it did anything it took 13G of VM and 7G of resident (on a system with 8G of RAM) and the system swapped to death. Is there any way of setting it to use less RAM BEFORE it even gives it's main menu? Are there good options to the fgfs program to make it use less memory? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

7 years, 2 months

Image view with support for geotags

by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au

Hi all, In Debian there's and image viewer (or something like that) that also displays the image information inserted by a camera. The particular app I am thinking about can be confgured to display the latitude and longitude from the geotags, unfortunately I have forgoten its name. Anyone know of it please. What I am requireing is an image viewer that will display the geotag data in some format. Lindsay

7 years, 2 months

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