December 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: protecting online images
by jdd-gmane 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Le 28/12/2009 14:25, Felix Miata a écrit : > On 2009/12/28 08:48 (GMT+0100) jdd-gmane composed: > >> I try to protect some online images. > > You can't. For a site visitor to see them the browser has to first fetch > them. Once fetched, there's no way to prevent saving locally. You can make it > more difficult for the clueless to do, but anyone with more than nominal > browsing experience will probably know or find a way around your attempts. I may not have been clear. Visitor can and have to be allowed to save the displayed image. But on a list of images, some are private, some public and the names are mostly sequential, so one can change the name on the public URL window and dl the private ones. for example public: image_100023.jpg private image_100027.jpg it's pretty easy to try 23, 24, 25, 26 and find 27 (I already did this myself on some circomstances :-) I added on my generation script this: (for I loop) ran="-$RANDOM-" ; rename "." "$ran." $I ; like this the image names become image_100023-1589-.jpg image_100027-5376-.jpg like this I still can identify the image, but the full name is much more difficult to guess I know it's not impossible to crack, given enough time, but will the robots make such attempts?? I can randomize twice, but is this necessary (it takes time)? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ffmpeg can not convert swf files into avi files
by shenxun521＠gmail.com 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

hi all i want to convert swf files into avi files i use ffmpeg ffmpeg -i 1.swf 1.avi the conversion is successful but i cann't open the avi file with images how can i do to get the avi files with images thanks @@ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: is it generally recommended to write software that NOT store temporary files in home directory?
by jdd-gmane 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Le 28/12/2009 06:58, Zhang Weiwu a écrit : > Dear all > > I was wondering is there a best practice or conventional suggestion that > software should not write temporary files in user's home directory, but > do it on /tmp/ or /var/tmp? > > I ask this because when I want to backup a live user profile usually it > fails thanks to file size change during backup. true temporary files (that is ones that are unimportant) don't have to be backed, so just --exclude them (using rsync). config files, caches, have to be examined to understand wich is important and wich are not :-( anyway, backup (and restore!) open files is not that easy see google, for example http://www.ultrabac.com/techsupport/50white-papers/lfb_api.asp (this is a proprietary application site, but the explanation is pretty general) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSuSE Kernel Change that effects Wireless Install ??? (Atheros AR242x will not work)
by David C. Rankin 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Guys, I need a miracle! I have probably installed the madwifi driver at least 10 time on my laptop on SuSE 10.2 through 11.2, but after a new 11.0 install, I am unable to find a madwifi driver that will install and "stay" installed. The funny thing is that the madwifi driver has no problems on the same box when installed on Arch Linux. Even more perplexing, I still have the 11.0 rpms that 'I WAS USING ON THIS BOX' that no longer no longer work, so I know the difficulty is something openSuSE specific with the latest kernel or two. I say that, because the existing drivers I have -- have always worked when I installed them with the original kernel and then updated through each successive kernel. Now, jumping from 2.6.25.5-1.1 to 2.6.25.20-0.5 in one step has left 11.0 in a condition where it will not load the driver properly. I have built and installed from the driver for the following sources all of which worked on this box in the past: madwifi-0.9.4-1.src.rpm # The standard 0.9.4-1 driver madwifi-0.9.4-1-current.src.rpm # The standard 0.9.4-1 driver with the madwifi-project suggested snapshot for 2.6.25+ kernels. madwifi-svn-122109 # this module worked briefly (limited to 1M/s), but then died and despite a number of reinstalls will not configure properly. madwifi-ng_r3366+ar5007-1.4.src.rpm # always worked in the past madwifi-ng_r3366+ar5007-1.9.src.rpm # always worked... madwifi-r3725+AR5007EG-2.2.src.rpm # what I was running on before the 11.2 install madwifi-trunk+r3717-1.2.src.rpm # worked in the past... and I have one or two more around... I even got to the point I was making sure the kernel was 'properly prepared' and that 'all' remnants of the prior installs were removed from the module tree and unloaded by reboot. I would: make mrproper make cloneconfig make modules_prepare make clean in between the package installs. Two notes of interest. (1) the packages are never consistent between where they put the modules in the module tree under /lib/modules/2.6.25.20-0.5-default/.. Sometimes the modules go under ../net, sometimes under ../updates, sometimes under ../weak-updates, but until now it always worked. Second, under openSuSE, I have always had to use the 'ath_pci' module. No matter what, the ath5k driver has never worked -- period. That always seemed strange. Well I confirmed it was strange, because when I checked the module used by Arch Linux on this box, low-and-behold, it was using ath5k??? How does that happen? The errors are pretty much of the same flavor. After the driver is loaded, it complains that the chip doesn't respond: Dec 22 15:00:11 alchemy kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:17:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) Dec 22 15:00:11 alchemy kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:17:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 Dec 22 15:00:11 alchemy kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:17:00.0 to 64 Dec 22 15:00:11 alchemy kernel: MadWifi: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3) Dec 22 15:00:11 alchemy kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:17:00.0 disabled Dec 22 15:02:18 alchemy kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:17:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 Dec 22 15:02:18 alchemy kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:17:00.0 to 64 Dec 22 15:02:18 alchemy kernel: ath5k_pci 0000:17:00.0: registered as 'phy1' Dec 22 15:02:19 alchemy kernel: ath5k phy1: failed to wakeup the MAC Chip Dec 22 15:02:19 alchemy kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:17:00.0 disabled Dec 22 15:02:19 alchemy kernel: ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:17:00.0 failed with error -5 dmesg: ath5k_pci 0000:17:00.0: registered as 'phy0' ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:17:00.0 failed with error -5 ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) wlan: 0.9.4 ath_pci: 0.9.4 eth0: RTL8101e at 0xffffc2000065a000, 00:1b:38:af:36:b8, XID 34200000 IRQ 4348 Basically, I'm f'ing stumped... I don't see any logical reason why what has always worked on this box now refuses to work. I have probably uninstalled, confirmed the uninstall was complete, built, rebuilt, reinstalled until I'm blue in the face. My shortcoming here is that I know not what suse is doing with the module tree and how it is assigning modules/devices. From what I can tell the modules.alias handling of ath5k versus ath_pci may be an issue. In the past, I have always just blacklisted ath5k in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist to prevent it from loading, but that doesn't work any more. I have attempted to insure that ath_pci is loaded before ath5k with MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT`as shown in http://en.opensuse.org/Kernel_module_configuration. Still doesn't help. I need the collective wisdom of the brain-trust to point out where I'm doing the stupid thing that I'm apparently doing repeatedly... (at least I'm consistent) What else would make sense to try or check here? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 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[opensuse] Right (safe!) way to grow a VolumeGroup AND its parent partition?
by Ben DJ 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Hi, I've successfully resized (grow & decrease) LVMs within a given Volume Group numerous times. Now I'd like to resize a Volume Group AND its parent partition, and am unclear as to the right/safe method. I have: /dev/sda 500 GB "/boot" /dev/sda1 200 MB LinuxNative, Ext4 (unallocated space) 100 GB /dev/sda3 200 GB LinuxLVM VG0 200 GB "/" (root) LV_A 50 GB Ext4 "/home" LV_B 100 GB Ext4 I'd like to (1) grow /dev/sda3 at the "front end" to use up the available 100 GB (2) grow the VG0 to use 100% of the now-larger /dev/sda3 Since "/" is ON the target partition, I've tried booting from the Opensuse 11.2 Live KDE CD and using its Partition Manager, but it tells me that /dev/sda4 is "in use", and unavailable for edit/resize. Before I go trying more brute-force methods, and subsequently losing my data, I thought I'd ask -- what's the RIGHT way to get this expansion done? Thanks, BenDJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] One more time: Lost files and mind.
by John Heinen 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

I have windows vista and opensuse /kde 3.5 on the same drive, windows has been bumped off due to lack of space but the files of windows are still there. I need some of those files but due to my ignorance, have not been able to transfer. We don't have Dolphin within suse only Conquer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ssh through vpn in openSUSE 11.1
by Istvan Gabor 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

I would like to use ssh through vpn in openSUSE 11.1 I have installed cisco vpnclient "vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.02.0030-k9" with no errors. When I run vpnclient it runs w/o errors, eg: > vpnclient connect target Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.8.01 (0640) Copyright (C) 1998-2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Client Type(s): Linux Running on: Linux 2.6.27.39-0.2-default #1 SMP 2009-11-23 12:57:38 +0100 i686 Config file directory: /etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient Initializing the VPN connection. Contacting the gateway at xxx.x.xx.xx User Authentication for target... The server has requested the following information to complete the user authentication: Username [my-name]: Password []: Authenticating user. Negotiating security policies. Securing communication channel. Your VPN connection is secure. VPN tunnel information. Client address: xx.x.x.xx Server address: xxx.x.xx.xx Encryption: 256-bit AES Authentication: HMAC-SHA IP Compression: None NAT passthrough is inactive Local LAN Access is disabled According to this vpnclient is working. When I start ssh I don't get anything, ssh hangs: > ssh -vvv remote-computer OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to remote-computer [xx.xx.x.xx] port 22. The program hangs at this point. But ssh works if vpnclient is not running. 1. How can I trace if vpnclient or ssh causes the problem? 2. How can I fix this? I can use ssh/vpnclinet combination in openSUSE 10.3, so the issue is not network related. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenSUSE weekly News #103 out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 103 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE News: Linux for Education Updated * The Geek Stuff/Sasikala: Unix Sed Tutorial: 6 Examples for Sed Branching Operation * Ben Kevan: Blogilo – The Blog Gigolo – KDE 4.4 * openSUSE Forums: X Not Starting (11.2) * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.33 enters test phase For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/103/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/103 Have a lot of fun! -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Member openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenSUSE Branding Removal?
by Lindsay Mathieson 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

Is there anyway to remove the OpenSUSE branding from the KDE desktop (ie. the Kicker menu opensuse icon etc). I much prefer the std KDE graphics. Thanks, -- Lindsay http://blackpaw.jalbum.net/home -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] headset and loudspeakers at the same time
by lynn 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

hi I have loudspeakers plugged into the rear of my Desktop computer. If I plug my headset mic and speakers into these rear outputs everything works fine. If I want to use the headset, I have to unplug the loudspeakers and then plug in the headset. I have the same sockets on the front of the computer. Nothing is output from the front sockets. Is there any way I can have both without having to plug and unplug each time? I know I can get a swich for around €10 but I think I may have this already. Has this been solved by anyone? Kde 4.3.4, 11.2 L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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