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Re: [luv-talk] Lenovo caught pre-installing adware on laptops - Security - News - iTnews.com.au
by Davor Balder 05 May '15

05 May '15

> 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

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Re: [luv-talk] How feasible are secure drop-boxes for "IT naive whistleblowers" ?
by Davor Balder 04 May '15

04 May '15

> 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

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flightgear
by Russell Coker 02 May '15

02 May '15

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/

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Image view with support for geotags
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 02 May '15

02 May '15

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

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Re: Image view with support for geotags
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 02 May '15

02 May '15

Sorry this reply is not threaded, I can only do threaded replies via my dial up line adn the modem is US at the momment. Anyway........... On Sat, 02 May 2015 12:40:41 Chris Samuel said, >Digikam will show you geolocation information for an image, when you are >looking at an image on the right hand side there's a vertical tab called >"Geolocation" and will overlay the image on a map (KDE Marble by default >butyou can switch to Google Maps if you so wish). I new about Digikam, I assumed though it was not full free software so I have used "geotag" instead, works well. It uses the browser Chromium to display Googleearth showing the location. Geotag can also do much more. >Don't forget you can also extract the coordinates from the image with the >ImageMagick "identify" utility at the command line too (though the format >looks a little arcane). >For example: >chris@quad:~/Pictures/Phone/GalaxyNexus/2014-12-08$ identify -verbose >2014-12-08T13\:16\:34.jpg | egrep 'GPSLong|GPSLat' > exif:GPSLatitude: 37/1, 48/1, 25488/1000 > exif:GPSLatitudeRef: S > exif:GPSLongitude: 145/1, 14/1, 7902/1000 > exif:GPSLongitudeRef: E >Best of luck! >Chris There's a cleaner way to do the above using "exiftags" zlinw@wolflianli:~/images$ exiftags 20090128_111751-043.jpg | grep itude exiftags: field count mismatch (NikonWhiteBalBias) Latitude: S 36° 27.7701' Longitude: E 146° 13.4310' Altitude: 242.00 m My main purpose for the post though was to try and identify a particular program which I KNOW does this. I can visualise the actual screen layout but dammed if I can remember its name. Geotag does a job much closer to what I really require though. It has been educational!. Lindsay

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Re: S5 Slide show works OK under Mozilla but not on Explorer
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 02 May '15

02 May '15

Many thanks for the replies, What I did was just put up a post saying Firefox was required. There was half dozen responses saying no problems, no one replied it was not acceptable. The slide show now has been up now for around 8 hours there have been more than 30 downloads and no one has said anything, so it must be OK. My experience on such things is that people will complain if theres a problem but most will say nothing if its OK, ie one needs to consider it a broadcast situation. If feedback is required the audience will have to be pressed in some way. A classic method widely used particularly in broadcast radio is to broadcast a delibrate mistake. I have used this in the past under similiar situations, works perfectly. Lindsay

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S5 Slide show works OK under Mozilla but not on Explorer
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 01 May '15

01 May '15

Hi all, I am putting together a slide show of a large engineering project. S5 is the framework being used "http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/". The slide works great under Firefox, but its quite unexecptable under Microsofts Explorer. As the majority of the target audence would almost certainly be running windows, I appear to have a problem. THe way the slide show works is one changes frames with the page up/down keys. The frame is divided into three sections. The top section containing the comments to go with the image, the middle portion is the image, the lower section containing the overall title. Explorer takes no notice of this formating, not even using the selected fonts just displays a series of images with text in between them using whatever default font Exlploer has. Unfortunately although now running Linux for around 20 years I no nothing about web programming, or in this case xhtml and css what ever they are? :-(. Anything I can do? Help would very much be apreciated. Lindsay

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Re: Image view with support for geotags
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:04:47 Michele Bert said, >I'm not sure whether it satisfies your requirement or not, but I like so >much geeqie as an image viewer, and it probably takes less time for you >to check the program, than for me to find an image with any geotag set! Thanks for the reply, I am familiar with qeeqie, its a good app for images but it does not display the GPS IFD from the exif data. Note 1. I have found an answer though, slightly unfortunately it does not appear to be in Debian, its the Java app "geotag". Availible from......... http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotag/ It uses googleearth via the Chromium browser to display the geo tag position, works great. For install info see........ http://geotag.sourceforge.net/QuickStart/ One of course needs both chromium and googleearth installed. Lindsay Note 1: I use a Nikon D700 with the GPS1 attachment that automaticly tags the image with its current GPS data when you take a shot. A REAL great asset I may say.

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Pro tip: Exclude /var/lib/docker from mlocate db
by Toby Corkindale 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

If you use docker much at all, I highly recommend excluding it from mlocate, if you use it. At least, with the btrfs version of docker (the only one worth using), you end up with what looks, to the filesystem, like an immense tree hanging off /var/lib/docker. And naive mlocate iterates through the entire lot, indexing it.

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System administration courses in Melbourne.
by Robert Shelton 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has attended Redhat Certified System Administrator training in Melbourne and would recommend it? Also interested in alternatives that might be worth a look? Many thanks, Rob.

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