tde-users August 2016

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16 discussions

skype and pulse audio
by Kate Draven 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

Hi I'm trying to get skype sound to work but apparently the monkeys at MS removed alsa support and replaced it with pulse, which is rubbish. Even though I have pulse enable (pclos - ali's remaster), it still doesn't show up. Is there a fix to re-enable alsa or the like? Kate

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Porting individual trinity programs to Android
by Philip Ashmore 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi there. I've got a really great Amarok playlist of songs that I find help me concentrate. I've looked for a means of playing such a playlist on Android without success. If anyone has succeeded in porting a TDE program to Android it would maybe bring this dream a little closer. Please tell me I'm not the only one with such a dream :) Regards, Philip Ashmore

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kweather-trinity not working
by Ken Heard 10 Sep '16

10 Sep '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The kweather-trinity applet version 4:14.0.3-0debian8.0.0+0 no longer works in Jessie. When I tried to use it claims that all the weather stations in the weather stations setup window do not exist. Regards, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAle9zGcACgkQlNlJzOkJmTd/VQCfSa6qFaiN0BdV0A66VdHMf6jx BakAnRvVuS80XYJCbO2iQYO0vhGp8jaI =RJ7c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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fail2ban advice needed
by Gene Heskett 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Greetings all; Is there someone familiar with fail2ban here? I just installed it and started it with the installation defaults, which I do not know since the init script has no "dump" option. However that bit of hungry guard dog only protects this machine, leaving the other 4 or sometimes 5 on my local network still open. So specifically, is there a way to broadcast the rules it applies to the other 4 or 5 machines, protecting them at the same time? Or possibly broadcast them to the router, which is running dd-wrt, and which is considered one of the more bulletproof reflash's about. I may be lucky, but since I do have a port forward to allow my web server, there is a potential attack point. Advice to a fail2ban new bee? Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw
by Gene Heskett 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

On Thursday 11 August 2016 15:44:24 Doug wrote: > On 08/11/2016 12:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: > > CC:ing emc-developers, and trinity-users who may not yet be aware of > > this tcp attack vector thats quite dangerous. And my post to > > trinity-users was in error, so this corrects it. > > > >> Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > >>> to add should be changed to forward slashes: > >> > >> You are wrong, sysctl supports both slashes and dots as separators. > >> > >> Regards, > > > > I changed it back Nicolas, and sysctl -p now returns: > > root@coyote:/etc/init.d# sysctl -p > > sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys//net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit: No > > such file or directory > > > > Put the slashes back and I get this: > > root@coyote:/etc/init.d# sysctl -p > > .net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999 > > > > Which I assume is the correct response. And yet the echo shows all > > dots. > > > > WTH? Ahh, my bad, no damned biscuit, an extra leading slash snuck > > in. But if a dot and a slash are the same to sysctl, I should have a > > file in the wrong place? But I do not. /net is empty. It is in the > > right place now. And cats the correct value. > > > > Sorry about the confusion everybody. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Running PCLOS. I put in the original command with dots. When I run > sysctl.p from a root environment I get no response, but no error > either. Don't know the significance of that. > > --doug Neither do I Doug, sorry. See the announcement on /. today & read the link to the post from the guys that found it that is in the story, UCsomething IIRC, see below. A closer read may answer it. <https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/39030> And please keep things like this on the list you read it from. A PM is unfair to the other readers of the list you read it on, so I'll cc the three lists it was cross posted to as it sounds pretty serious to me. And I just noted that the sysctl command you quoted above is incorrect, its sysctl -p, not sysctl.p. Maybe that helps? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw
by Gene Heskett 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: CC:ing emc-developers, and trinity-users who may not yet be aware of this tcp attack vector thats quite dangerous. And my post to trinity-users was in error, so this corrects it. > Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > to add should be changed to forward slashes: > > You are wrong, sysctl supports both slashes and dots as separators. > > Regards, I changed it back Nicolas, and sysctl -p now returns: root@coyote:/etc/init.d# sysctl -p sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys//net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit: No such file or directory Put the slashes back and I get this: root@coyote:/etc/init.d# sysctl -p .net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999 Which I assume is the correct response. And yet the echo shows all dots. WTH? Ahh, my bad, no damned biscuit, an extra leading slash snuck in. But if a dot and a slash are the same to sysctl, I should have a file in the wrong place? But I do not. /net is empty. It is in the right place now. And cats the correct value. Sorry about the confusion everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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semonkey freezes very often in Kubuntu 14.04
by Uwe Brauer 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

Hi The latest stable seamonkey freezes every 10 min or so, using Kubuntu 14.04, that did not happen in Kubuntu 10.04. Does anybody have a similar experience? Uwe Brauer

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Workaround for serious TCP exploit
by Felmon Davis 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

Greets! what must we who are using trinity do to avoid the tcp exploit? I found the following instructions from L. Weinstein's privacy mail list but they don't corrrespond to anything in my sysctl.conf. Felmon ----- quote ----- Workaround for serious TCP exploit previously discussed https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/gWSj2sYExoB Here is the recommended workaround for Linux/Android clients/servers for the serious TCP exploit discussed in: https://threatpost.com/serious-tcp-bug-in-linux-systems-allows-traffic-hija… This one will work for Ubuntu as is, and for various other Linux distributions with suitable modifications. The point is to bump the ACK limit way up. Note that some of the pages announcing this exploit appear to be contaminated with browser hijack "fake technical support" warning sites. Beware. Close your browser immediately if you hit one if you can, otherwise reboot and don't restore crashed pages. The workaround for the TCP exploit: Open /etc/sysctl.conf, append a command: /net.ipv4/tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999 Use "sysctl -p" to update the configuration. _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list https://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy

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Problem on ubuntu 16.04 with systemd and tdm-trinity and a proposed solution
by update 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

On booting a new installed xenial with trinity tdm I get the error message: "A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up(time/no limit)" which prevents starting the console logins. Using sddm or lightdm works together with systemd. I have looked into the systemd configuration of them both and changed the file /lib/systemd/system/tdm.service according to the sddm configuration to [Unit] Description=Trinity Display Manager Documentation=man:tdm-trinity(1) Conflicts=getty(a)tty7.service After=getty(a)tty7.service # Ordering Conflicts=plymouth-quit-wait.service After=systemd-user-sessions.service plymouth-start.service plymouth-quit-wait.se OnFailure=plymouth-quit.service [Service] # temporary safety check until all DMs are converted to correct # display-manager.service symlink handling ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '[ "$(basename $(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2> ExecStart=/opt/trinity/bin/tdm Restart=always RestartSec=1s With this file the plymouth/systemd handshake seams to work. Maybe this helps someone else. Stef

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[probably OT] How to add a scancode?
by iadest＠o2.pl 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

Hello This is probably not related to TDE, but Linux in general (Debian 8?). I have a multimedia PS/2 keyboard "BTC 9001" (evtest reports it as "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard") and I try to use all its keys. Some are typical multimedia keys, while I program some other to launch applications in my TDE using "Keyboard actions" panel. Unfortunately not all keys are detected in OS by scancodes. Two keys generate only a EV_MSC event, while not giving scancode. Is it possible, by e.g. udev hwdb rule, to assign scancodes to these events? Here are results of evtest events test: Testing ... (interrupt to exit) Event: time 1470587826.798369, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 1c Event: time 1470587826.798369, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 28 (KEY_ENTER), value 0 Event: time 1470587826.798369, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587829.689519, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 1e Event: time 1470587829.689519, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 30 (KEY_A), value 1 Event: time 1470587829.689519, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587829.753248, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 1e Event: time 1470587829.753248, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 30 (KEY_A), value 0 Event: time 1470587829.753248, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587836.420023, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value e5 Event: time 1470587836.420023, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 217 (KEY_SEARCH), value 1 Event: time 1470587836.420023, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587836.504746, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value e5 Event: time 1470587836.504746, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 217 (KEY_SEARCH), value 0 Event: time 1470587836.504746, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587839.705553, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value a6 Event: time 1470587839.705553, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587839.782562, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value a6 Event: time 1470587839.782562, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587840.546297, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value a5 Event: time 1470587840.546297, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587840.648616, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value a5 Event: time 1470587840.648616, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587842.578400, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 1d Event: time 1470587842.578400, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 29 (KEY_LEFTCTRL), value 1 Event: time 1470587842.578400, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ Event: time 1470587842.761042, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 2e Event: time 1470587842.761042, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 46 (KEY_C), value 1 Event: time 1470587842.761042, -------------- EV_SYN ------------ The keys pressed are: Return key released, A, then "Search" custom key which works, then "Manual" and "Panel" keys (these two don't work - no scancode), then ctrl-C to stop evtest. MCbx P.S. And again my webmail removed newlines in my previous post... sorry for inconvenience, ignore the previous one.

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