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laptop suspend in Debian/Testing
by Russell Coker 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

I've just installed Debian/Stretch on a new (to me) laptop and upgraded it to Testing. When I close the lid it doesn't suspend, instead it gives the message "authentication is required for suspending the system while other users are logged in" (presumably due to "ssh user@localhost" but also happens when I've logged out of the ssh session). https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/492950-how-get-rid-of-quot-authe… Above is one Google hit about this, it references a program set_polkit_default_privs which doesn't seem to exist on Debian. https://askubuntu.com/questions/543921/authentication-required-before-suspe… The above page recommends changing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ org.freedesktop.login1.policy which doesn't work for me. Any suggestions on what to do? One suggestion that I haven't yet tried is to change XDM programs. I'm happy with sddm and it should work. Ideally I would be able to discover enough about this to file an adequate bug report against sddm.

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Free to a good^H^H^H^H home - not quite vintage hardware
by cory seligman 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hi All, just in case anyone has some obscure legacy hardware requirements, I have a (probably working) Pentium III class HP Vectra desktop machine up for grabs. No idea how much RAM it has. No HDD. It has a PCI USB2.0 and firewire (maybe 800) card in it and a very nice National Instruments Data Acquisition Card on an ISA bus. Last time I used it was probably 10 years ago for some legacy data acquistion work. I have the proper hardware interface cards and hardware programming manual. From memory, linux drivers for the DAQ weren't hard to get going. Anyone want it?

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Wi-Fi device firmware
by Mark Trickett 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Hello All, Thanks to not having ADSL, but a mobile broadband modem instead, it has wi-fi connectivity, I have yet to get the optional cradle I would like for wired ethernet connectivity. I have a USB wi-fi device from AusPi which comes up as the following from sudo lsusb: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter My question is whether I can get the Debian 7 package and unpack for the firmware, then use that on a Debian 9 system. The reason is that the Debian 7 is a laptop with built in wi-fi, whereas the Debian 9 is a desktop that currently does not have net access, until I can implement wi-fi, or get the cradle for the mobile modem. I am not averse to networking the two computers, but the laptop is using Network Manager to get the wi-fi connection, and Network Manager prioritises the wired connection for the external network connection and assumes that the wi-fi is a local network. Yes, I can set the wired ethernet as unmanaged and set manually, but that too has issues, along with current desk space to run both computers. Regards, Mark Trickett

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Re: luv-main Digest, Vol 75, Issue 3
by MikeH 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

I use one that is marked shintaro and is available for about $20 from http://www.stonecomputers.com.au/contact/ I have had success (and fun) with blueman-manager and for working at a lower level gtkterm Mike H On 30/11/17 12:00, luv-main-request(a)luv.asn.au wrote: > Send luv-main mailing list submissions to > luv-main(a)luv.asn.au > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > luv-main-request(a)luv.asn.au > > You can reach the person managing the list at > luv-main-owner(a)luv.asn.au > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of luv-main digest..." > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. USB Bluetooth dongle (Michael Schams) > > > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > luv-main(a)luv.asn.au > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main >

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USB Bluetooth dongle
by Michael Schams 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Hi all, Can anybody recommend a "common" USB Bluetooth dongle, that works pretty much out-of-the-box with Debian 9 and can be picked up locally at JBHifi or a similar retail shop around the corner? I have two or three Bluethooth devices, predominantly headphones or ear plugs, which work perfectly fine with my Android phone. Now I'd like to pair these with my Linux-powered machine at work, which does not have Bluetooth on-board. Any recommendations or good/bad experiences? Cheers Michael

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Humble Bundle: O'Reilly Java ebooks (ends 3 Dec)
by Rodney Brown 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/java-books >=USD1 Think Java Java Generics and Collections Java in a Nutshell 6th ed. Java Pocket Guide 4th ed. Java Message Service 2nd ed. >=USD8 Learning Java 4th ed. Java Threads 3rd ed. Java 8 Lambdas RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0 2nd ed. Minecraft Modding with Forge >=USD15 Java Network Programming 4th ed. Java Web Services: Up and Running 2nd ed. Java Cookbook 3rd ed. Java Performance: The Definitive Guide Jenkins: The Definitive Guide

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Interesting Open Source event in Moreland
by Ben M 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hi all, There is a fantastic looking event coming up in Moreland on Thursday the 2nd of November at 8pm: http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/libraries/library-events-and-activities/read… ... Margaret Gordon was the reporter who visited FSM during our August meetup, and she is presenting some of the work she has been doing with the Linux Foundation, Wikipedia and VLC. Looks to be a fantastic presentation. Even more exciting we may get the opportunity to do a short presentation or lead a discussion group... get in touch if you can make the event and want to get involved and we'll keep you updated with developments (including a sneak preview of the videos being presented... Exciting!). ~~ Ben Minerds

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usermod weirdness
by Paul van den Bergen 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Hi Folks, Hoping to get some clarification as to what I'm missing here... I ran the following command: sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER} Which resulted in the following entry in /etc/group docker:x:133:bulwynkl OK, all nice and as it should be. su - bulwynkl then id shows I am a member of group docker. but. when I close terminal and restart it OR when I log out and log back in again and run terminal, the group hasn't taken. running id shows no docker group membership. once again - if I run su - bulwynkl, then id, I DO get docker group... so... what am I missing - presumably something is holding onto the old session data even for a logout? N.B. rebooting solved the issue. but that isn't very satisfactory - fine on a home laptop - annoying, but fine - less so on a production machine... IIUC, openning a new terminal SHOULD re-read the .bashrc &etc config files... -- Dr Paul van den Bergen

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tor etc
by Russell Coker 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/leet11/tech/full_papers/LeBlond.pdf Here is an interesting paper about deanonymising Tor users. It covers some deficiencies in Tor (reusing circuits) as well as some problems with the way it's used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Tor_Browser Here are URLs about TorChat and TorBrowser which I mentioned in my talk. At the hands-on workshop I'll cover these things in more detail. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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dynamic IPs, remote access, poor internet
by cory seligman 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Hi all, I'm about to deploy a small server (raspberry pi) in a remote location (outback WA). The site has satellite internet, which I believe is reliable but laggy. I'd like to set up my server so I have remote shell access, but the problem I'm struggling with is the two layers of dynamic IP. The site as a whole has some satellite modem that gets a dynamic IP, but then my server will get a NATted dynamic IP from the router. I don't have control over the router, so I can't implement port forwarding with a static IP. Does anyone know what the "correct" solution might be? I've only gotten as far as very hacky solutions such as a reverse tunnel via an ssh cron job (hourly?) to my local IP. The server is in hourly communication with an Amazon S3 service to upload its collected data, so another possibility is that it periodically checks the S3 drive for a file to execute. If i place a script there it could run it and pipe the results back to me. Nasty and not very interactive. Anyone? Cory

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