Ubuntu wiki states that its packages are compiled with secure flags and secure kernel options. I cannot find this information about debian. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CompilerFlags
Compare these 3 sentences:
Both are based on librsync, but above that they behave quite differently.
Both are based on librsync, but above that, they behave quite differently.
Both are based on librsync, but, above that, they behave quite differently.
I found the first one hard to...
I often download tarballs with wget from sourceforge.net.
The downloaded files then are named, e.g SQliteManager-1.2.4.tar.gz?r=http:%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fsqlitemanager%2Ffiles%2F&ts=1305711521&use_mirror=switch
When I try to
tar xzf SQliteManager-1.2.4.tar.gz\?r\=http\:%2...
I'm using nm-applet to dial up DSL pppoe connections. As there are a great number of user in my local network, I sometimes have to try many times to establish a connection successfully.
I wonder is there some way to set nm-applet or networkmanager repeat trying automatically until connect succes...
@Tshepang It was discussed, but I don't think we're particularly interested in doing it; certainly I'm not. We don't even have a lot of meta activity, so I doubt many people are interested in keeping up a blog
1) A system is installed with an encrypted VG.
2) How can I find out that what did they used?
It's a Fedora 14, they used dm_crypt OR luks. Or it's the same?
Hello all,
I have currently a strange problem on debian (wheezy/amd64).
I have created a chroot to install a server (i can't give any more detail about it, sorry). Let's call its path /chr_path/.
To make things easy, I have initialized this chroot with a debootstrap (also wheezy/amd64).
All se...
I'm doing a shell command (such as sh run.sh > log.txt). How do you overwrite the file each time (so each time I run it log.txt doesn't get appended)
I'm doing this in a python script and I'm checking the log file each time for a specific number (and I don't want the numbers to get added onto...
I'm using HP G42 laptop with 320GB hard-drive and 4 GB memory. I'm pretty sure that, it can be used for dual OS(Windows 7 & fedora) Currently, I'm using only Windows 7, but, I need to install fedora.
This my hard-drive :
Local disk(C) = 50GB(Windows 7 installed here)
Local disk(D) = re...
I recently have been trying out Arch Linux. It seems that their autofs has a usability bug, although I confess that I'm new enough to Arch that I may be missing something horribly obvious.
I want autofs to automagically mount hosts under /net like it has always done. Traditionally it used /etc/a...
I'm having a weired issue wih my Fedora 14 recently.
Many details involed. Let's start from this:
I've been using Fedora 14 for months, and recent few days, offten I can't access Internet for hours. I can verify by a iPod Touch that connected to the same router, that the connection is fine.
...
SU was talking about getting us and AU to post on their blog a little while ago
@Gilles The asker seems to agree that it's a duplicate; Caleb's concern was just about searching, but we won't delete that version, so searchers can find both versions
Why in the world do all my gnome terminals run under 1 processin Ubuntu? This is integrating things that should remain separated! I much prefer xterm's rational mode of running one process per window.
I tried to switch some auto-started windows from xterm to gnome-terminal so I can freeze a lo...
Is there any way to prevent yum from upgrading a package obsoleted by other package?
I have created a custom repo containing some packages, among them openh323-devel. In current versions of CentOS, openh323 is marked as being obsoleted by OPAL, but I don't want to compile other software (namely ...
I have some devices connected to a Cisco serial term server; many work fine when I telnet directly to the port on the Cisco. However, I have a few stubborn devices that will not use the backspace as it is mapped in telnet by default.
In case it matters, I telnet from rxvt under Debian squeeze. ...
@Gilles Probably; I'm not sure what the threshold is. When I hit 10k on SO people celebrated by upvoting a bunch of my posts; the resulting recalc pushed me back under 10k again. I was a bit annoyed
@Gilles Their understanding is really impressive; there was an audio thing recently (I don't think it was a podcast, it was some interview) where waffles and geoff were discussing how they dealt with the Oct 2010 DB failure
The MM 10k mass-upvoting thing was a challenge, not only cuz he does a lot of shell answering (boring stuff that goes over my head), but also cuz I already voted on so many of his posts already.
Damn, next guy in line is at least 3k away from 10k
I have learned to compile my own source over the years but always left some of the process to "mystery". I'm running into a bitch of a time getting ImageMagick and its myriad dependencies to work correctly on a PowerPC Mac OS X Server.
In setting flags for ./compile where does one typically unco...
Fedora installer must have a partitioning tool that will also allow you to resize that big partition. Here's a scheme I have in mind:
Resize the large partition to something like 220GB.
2-4 GB swap partition (this will come in handy in case you want to suspend, or if you are going to be runnin...
I really want to downvote the other guy, for he seemed to have ignored my answer (check my comment). Either that, or I'm missing something.
@Gilles I'd be fine with it, if SO doesn't want it. I remain hazy on what questions they actually don't like -- I would've expected that to get closed immediately
@Tshepang I follow zsh and a few other tags on all sites, so I see most of these questions. You've seen several of them get migrated to U&L, closed on SO by me + a mod (alerted by a flag)
So the next stable version of Debian is out but I need to install the previous one (Lenny) because my VPS is running that version. I haven't been able to find an «official» download link for Lenny's ISOs.
Can you help me with this?
I recently used a sentence similar to the following:
Curiously, how do you do it?
Some people found it grammatically incorrect. That was a surprise, for I thought it was perfectly okay. Someone even came with an alternative:
Out of curiosity, how do you do it?
Is the second sentence a...
@Tshepang : Assuming your sentence is grammatically incorrect, some people might not understand what you meant. So you could describe the intended meaning of your sentence.
@Gilles, I will take a look... btw, I updated my question about BackSpace... I think maybe I could solve this with keysym, but I'm having trouble getting the syntax right