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test post
by trentbuck＠gmail.com 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

This is test to see if gmane.org.user-groups.linux.luv.general works bidirectionally. If it does, I can move LUV from mutt ("personal; deal with immediately") into gnus ("lists; when I get around to it"), where it belongs. Yay! PS: yes, I know that gnus can do IMAP, and that it's allegedly much faster in Emacs 24. It's a workflow decision, not a technical support decision.

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debian stable vulnerabilities
by Andrew Worsley 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

1. Apparently there are *LOTS* of vulnerabilities which are unpatched vulnerabilities in debian stable but presumably people just live with it or am I missing some part of the picture? - See below 2. Is there a version of java plugin that I can run under iceweasel/firefox that I can install in debian stable? My firefox warns me that Java Plug-in 1.6.0_26 (disabled) is known to cause security or stability issues... If there is a better mailing list for these debian specific questions - please let me know but there may be others who are might interested in these answers as well. Item 1: install the debsecan package and scan your box .... On an up to date debian squeeze system I have: debsecan | grep iceweasel CVE-2011-1187 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, low urgency) CVE-2011-1202 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, medium urgency) CVE-2011-3658 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-0475 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, low urgency) CVE-2012-1939 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-1941 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-1945 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, low urgency) CVE-2012-1946 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-1951 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-1952 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-1953 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-1955 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, medium urgency) CVE-2012-1957 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, medium urgency) CVE-2012-1958 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-1959 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, medium urgency) CVE-2012-1961 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, medium urgency) CVE-2012-1962 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) CVE-2012-1964 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, medium urgency) CVE-2012-1965 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, medium urgency) CVE-2012-3105 iceweasel (remotely exploitable, high urgency) iceweasel is up to date apt-show-versions -a iceweasel iceweasel 3.5.16-18 install ok installed iceweasel 3.5.16-17 squeeze ftp.au.debian.org iceweasel 3.5.16-18 squeeze security.debian.org iceweasel/squeeze uptodate 3.5.16-18 Looking at the first CVE via debian security tracker shows squeeze is still vulnerable... - See http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3658 Item 2: Under plugins on my iceweasel it has Java plugin disabled for security / stability issues. I believe I have the latest jre/plugins installed apt-show-versions -a sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jre 6.26-0squeeze1 install ok installed sun-java6-jre 6.26-0squeeze1 squeeze ftp.au.debian.org sun-java6-jre 6.26-0squeeze1 unknown ftp.tw.debian.org sun-java6-jre 6.26-0squeeze1 unknown http.debian.net sun-java6-jre/squeeze uptodate 6.26-0squeeze1 Do the debian people just expect me to not run java in the browser (too dangerous?) Am I suppose to switch to java7 (no package for debian squeeze) and manually install it? If so is there any guidance on manual installation? I notice in wheezy we have java-package (see http://wiki.debian.org/JavaPackage) which lets you install the Oracle binary distributions by putting it into a .deb for you (e.g. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=84672) Searching around on the debian web site didn't find any obvious guidance on these issues and numerous old looking Wiki pages. Thanks in advance for any help. Andrew

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An Appeal for Speakers
by Lev Lafayette 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Great LUVers, The call for penguin patriotism is upon us! Our great community is facing a dire situation. We have no speakers in the coming month! An appeal is made to you, the glorious citizens of LUV, to bring your voices and provide a talk. We have a crazy situation. We're booked up until March 2013, except for next month's LUV-main meeting where we have *no speakers*. None! So please, some brave and loyal individual, please raise your hand and sally forth. For LUV! Thanks in advance, -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Oracle Makes More Moves To Kill Open Source MySQL
by Rasika Amarasiri 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Very sad situation. http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/oracle-makes-more-moves-to-kill-open-sourc… Rasika

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Pulseaudio - output to all devices?
by Toby Corkindale 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Heya, I use Pulseaudio, and I frequently use a USB audio device. However I find that when I plug the device in, I have to go into the settings (eg. pavucontrol) and switch output over to the new device from the default built-in audio. What I would love is for Pulseaudio to just output to EVERYTHING. I realise it'll waste a bit of CPU time sending audio to the hdmi monitor and the built-in soundcard.. but eh, whatever. There's an i7 CPU in this machine, it'll cope. Any suggestions on how to tweak it to do this? Cheers, Toby PS. Please, no Pulseaudio hating comments. I quite like it, and think it does a good job. YMMV, but keep it to yourself.

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different MTU on different VLAN's
by James Harper 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

I want my regular eth0 interface to have an MTU of 1500, and have eth0.12 with an MTU of 9000, but Linux seems to want to keep the MTU consistent across all VLAN interfaces. Has anyone done this before? I don't know if it's a limitation of my Ethernet hardware or of Linux. In theory, as long as Linux only transmits <=1500 byte packets it shouldn't matter what the underlying hardware is set to, so I don't know why this restriction exists. Thanks James

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Re: [luv-talk] The worst web site of all time?
by Russell Coker 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Allan Duncan <amd2345(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote: > My wife complained to me about www.royalshow.com.au "not working". > > She was quite right - it is running like a dog with firefox 15.0.1 on > Xorg. A little digging shows that whenever it is being displayed on the > screen Xorg saturates the CPU core it is on. Click on another browser A web site doesn't make Xorg use more CPU time. A browser may decide to do things that trigger excessive Xorg CPU use, some of that may be due to limitations in hardware (IE having a video device with limited capabilities which forces more things to be done in software) but probably most of that will be due to the application. Viewing that site in Chromium on my E4600 system with a ATI Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450] PCIe video card didn't cause any noticable increase in CPU use. Presumably that's mainly because Chromium is better than Firefox, but the CPU and video card I'm using may have something to do with it. There have been times in the past where I routinely had multiple web browsers installed so I could try a few until I got one that worked with a site. But nowadays Chromium just works for me. Chromium is rather memory hungry, but as systems with 3G of RAM can be obtained as trash that's not a big problem if you restrain yourself to less than a dozen open tabs. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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broken lvm partition
by Brian May 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hello, Just want to double check my facts before I do something wrong here. I discovered a computer trying to read past the end of it's disk. attempt to access beyond end of device sdq: rw=0, want=488022554, limit=488017920 fdisk reports: Disk /dev/sdq: 249.8 GB, 249865175040 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30377 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000d7193 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdq1 1 30 240943+ 83 Linux /dev/sdq2 31 30378 243770310 8e Linux LVM My assumption is that specifying end=30378 is invalid for a disk that only has 30377 cylinders. Have I got this correct? Another identical computer does have end=30377, so I suspect this one got it right. Also wondering why dmesg reports 488017920 blocks but fdisk reports 240943+243770310 block size (and on good system reports 240943+243762277 blocks) - is there a difference in block sizes here? /dev/sdq2 is LVM, and has three partitions for root, swap, and var. --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdq2 PV Size 232.48 GB / not usable 966.00 KB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 59514 Free PE 50403 Allocated PE 9111 PV UUID 58fU6l-MLlo-h5Ar-n9jx-0poC-axdS-VoAmND How do I recover the LVM partition with minimum disruption? Maybe use of pvresize? Before or after fixing the partition size? How can I check if that part of the disk has a LV allocated on it? Thanks -- Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au>

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Ghostscript display, or not
by Mark Trickett 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hello All, I have been used to invoking Ghostscript to display my postscript efforts on this Thinkpad running Ubuntu, but it did not do so with the "fresh" desktop install of Debian. I have looked at the default output device on this Thinkpad, and it is x11alpha, but that appears to not be available with the Debian installed version of Ghostscript. I would appreciate pointers as to enabling that, even if I have to grab the source via this computer, then transfer via CDR and compile. The desktop will be on the net in due course, but it is dial up access, and I am still looking closely at being able to disable Gnome Netmanager in such a way that I can still learn about it for when I install for novices. It does not appear cleanly in Synaptic, but I can see parts of it. I have been scratching my ead as to what is the "head" of the app, where I should start, rather than a piecemeal approach. I also need to have the head space to sort out setting up pon and poff, rather than using wvdial as I have been. Meatspace has been of higher priority at this time. Regards, Mark Trickett

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Free Drupal Training - Drupal in a Day - 14 September 2012 - Melbourne CBD
by Dave Hall 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hi all, On 14 September Technocrat will be participating in the Drupal Association's Drupal Global Training Days initiative[1]. Technocrat's experienced trainers will be providing free training for people interested in learning about Drupal for the first time. There are only 12 places available, so we expect to fill up fast. Registrations are essential[2]. Get a solid introduction to Drupal and learn about the most essential features and concepts of Drupal through hands-on activities. By the end of the day you will be familiar with Drupal terminology and be able to identify how many Drupal sites are constructed. This course is aimed at anyone who's just starting to use Drupal as a content editor or site builder. If you know anyone who might be interested in this event, please feel free to forward this message to them. For more information visit our website[3] or contact me directly. Cheers Dave [1] http://drupal.org/learn-drupal [2] http://teachmedrupal.drupalgardens.com/training-registration [3] http://teachmedrupal.drupalgardens.com/event/2012-09-14/free-drupal-day-tra… PS Apologies for the cross post and if this is considered off topic, I thought it might be of interest to people on this list. -- Dave Hall Principal Engineer Technocrat

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