tde-users February 2017

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by Pisini, John

http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291 This is very interesting -- John Pisini Systems Administrator TFCCS 617-450-3988 Disclaimer for email: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. This e-mail is not intended to, and shall not, constitute an electronic signature giving rise to a binding legal contract, unless expressly stated otherwise in the body of the e-mail by the sender.

3 years, 2 months

skype and pulse audio

by Kate Draven

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

3 years, 4 months

External drive gets mounted twice

by Thierry de Coulon

Hello all, I've installed openSUSE 42.2 and so upgraded to TDE 14.0.4 (previously I couldn't on my old 13.1, something broke so I stayed at 14.0.0). I don't know which of the two is responsible, but now, when I plug in an external drive, it gets mounted twice. On my desktop I see the drive itself, and the partition. For example, when I plug in my 16GB mac formated usb key, I get both "14.8 GB removable device", mounted on /deb/sdg, and "macUSBDrive", mounted on /dev/sdg1. Of course the former throws an error if I try to open it. This is not so bad and I can live with it, but I wonder where this is distribution specific, machine specific or if you all see this too. Regards, Thierry

7 years, 9 months

Porting individual trinity programs to Android

by Philip Ashmore

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

8 years, 1 month

OAuth in KMail?

by dep

greetings, everybody . . . this morning i received a fairly alarming note from my ISP, who apparently farms out its mail handling to yahoo (and yahoo seems to have belatedly gotten interested in security). the note specified that i am not using a sufficiently secure mail client (KMail in TDE) and that in a few weeks OAuth will be required. an admittedly brief search has not produced information as to whether this is something that can be enabled in KMail in TDE or, if so, how to enable it. is this something that has come up before? if so, how was it resolved? and if it hasn't, any solutions? thanks very much. -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

8 years, 1 month

Trinity SSL Certificate Status

by Timothy Pearson

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 I just wanted to let you know that the new TDE site SSL certificates have been installed. They are valid until 2020 so we should be good to go for quite some time. QuickBuild is handled somewhat outside of the TDE project itself, but should also be updated in the next month or so. Thank you all again for helping resolve this issue so quickly! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAliniqMACgkQLaxZSoRZrGHZzwDeMOYKZ/iiC6ZaMaIVXwsXOo0L pprznl0vuy/M4QDgtInLknauKmFtWc3Gmg8/0SQryDP5f/X/75cYOw== =yNSu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

8 years, 1 month

Re: [trinity-users] Trinity SSL Certificates

by Dave Lers

Timothy Pearson wrote: > LetsEncrypt does not appear to be secure enough as it > effectively requires automated certificate installation on the > master servers, and furthermore I expect it to be removed from > as a fully trusted root CA or at least demoted in some way in the > future [3]. I'd suggest a little more research while paying attention to the originating source material (CA's who are losing money). At least one of the FUD sources in your link has been responded to: https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=552.

8 years, 1 month

Re: [trinity-devel] Trinity SSL Certificates

by Timothy Pearson

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 > Consider it done. > > Calvin And with that we're good to go! I'll order the replacement certificates shortly, which should reactivate TDE under all major browsers. Thank you all very much for stepping up and helping fix this, I greatly appreciate it! Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlimXdwACgkQLaxZSoRZrGEgFQDgp6Kl+GwPIXNiCdDbjTtm0o+l wiT/uPSOWQWX0ADaAjn85+nk3UsGkbp7guXH/3pUc7Ij8kwbMiGeGA== =/HH8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

8 years, 1 month

Trinity SSL Certificates

by Timothy Pearson

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 As some of you may already be aware, StartCom (a major provider of SSL certificates) has repeatedly and intentionally violated the basic rules to be listed as a root CA in most browsers [1] [2]. Unfortunately, TDE used StartCom as its root CA provider in an attempt to lower overall costs; as a result, the main TDE pages, QuickBuild, and other related services will no longer be accessible to the majority of Web clients. We do not have the funds to replace the certificate with a costlier option at this time. LetsEncrypt does not appear to be secure enough as it effectively requires automated certificate installation on the master servers, and furthermore I expect it to be removed from as a fully trusted root CA or at least demoted in some way in the future [3]. Due to the industry-standard security in use, we cannot simply disable HTTPS without disabling access to all TDE sites previously using HTTPS. Furthermore, disabling HTTPS would open TDE users adn visitors to malicious MITM attack, and I am not willing to do this. Our only options come down to either accepting the heavy loss in visitors / traffic that will come from using a self-signed certificate, or attempting to raise the funds required to purchase a new certificate. It should only cost around $200 to obtain a new multi-year certificate covering TDE, so if you can please contribute something toward this goal via our donations page [4]. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience; it is not common for a CA to be delisted and the impact from this has been felt across many sites. Unfortunately, it will only continue to worsen as Chrome (with its 75% market share) is updated by end users over the next few days / weeks. Thank you! [1] https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-and-startcom.html [2] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new-wosign-and-sta… [3] http://www.datamation.com/security/lets-encrypt-the-good-and-the-bad.html [4] https://trinitydesktop.org/donate.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlimAWgACgkQLaxZSoRZrGEmvgDgiRW0d0/yTuzseNQm7of0gzMz WPJSiyQPYpvBKQDgpU4QtQdAQ9ZIhjUBbzNTY/DgBBRmd53/P6QZsQ== =U7kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

8 years, 1 month

TDE NetworkManager frontend not working. Got "unable to perform requested operation". ConsoleKit (rly needed?) and PolicyKit are installed.

by Richard Lamboj

Hello, i can not use the tde network-manager frontend. A Message-Box pops up and says: Unable to save network connection! Potential causes: * Insufficient permissions * NetworkManager not running * DBUS failure Beside that i think the Assistent should not be closed. Both - ConsoleKit and PolicyKit - are installed. And i'm using OpenRC, not systemd on Debian Jessie, with backports enabled. Kind Regards, Richard

8 years, 1 month

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