Hi everyone,
I've tried to use openjdk 6 and the corresponding icedtea Firefox plugin
as a replacement for sun-java-6 on Ubuntu 11.10 for accessing BCEE's
S-NET site. I get the infamous message: "exception:
java.security.AccessControlException : access denied" and the applet
does not start. In the same situation, during the first access to the
site, the old sun java plugin ran a popup asking whether the user would
grant permission to execute the applet and updated its config
accordingly. This is apparently missing in icedtea's (or openjdk's?)
setup.
Of course, I can make it work by writing a ~/.java.policy with
grant {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
but the security implications are severe, to say the least.
Any advice?
Thanks
Alain
Hello all,
Like many other people, I'm starting to become fed up with Firefox:
- crazy versioning scheme, which regularly breaks add-ons (such as HTML
Validator)
- bugs unfixed since almost 10 years
- gratuitous and frivolous GUI changes
(This is especially painful on a distribution such as Fedora, which
seems to follow every Firefox version. On Kubuntu 10.04 it is bearable,
as it sticks with 3.6)
Of course, there's other browsers such as Opera, Midori or ... gasp ...
Chrome.
However, as one of the main reasons for my discontent is the breakage of
addons, and as those other browsers don't have addons at all (or are
incompatible with the many Firefox addons), switching to one of those
wouldn't solve the problem...
So, here's my question: does anybody know of a fork of Firefox/Mozilla
from around the 3.x period which kept with sane version numbers while
still fixing bugs? Or an entire different browser, but that can use
Firefox add-ons?
I know, there is seamonkey, but apparently it branched off in the 2.x
days, which is a tad *too* old for me.
Thanks for any ideas,
Alain
I tinkered a bit with my Luxtrust middleware today:
- updated patch to new OpenSC SVN trunk
- set up a proper git repo for versioning of my work
- as the c3l wiki went bust, I moved the page to the lilux wiki:
https://www.lilux.lu/lilux/mediawiki/index.php/FLOSS_Luxtrust,
and added info to that page.
However, getting the signing key to work is not for today.
--
Lionel
Hello,
I've recently installed Kubuntu10.10 on a laptop Acer TM660 (rather
old hardware now), running in 32b
with a Centrino chip for wireless connection but I didn't find how to
configure interfaces; in the
menu to configure the network I was able to put parameters for new
wireless connection but
surprisingly there is no option to bind connection with a specific
interface; thus, after that,
there is no mean to set up interface as it is not yet configurated;
command ifconfig -a gives:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:9f:2e:d9:bf
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B)
Interruption:10
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:23:77:53:2b
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B)
Interruption:10 Adresse de base:0xa000 Mémoire:e0206000-e0206fff
lo Link encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0
adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
Packets reçus:116 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
Octets reçus:8784 (8.7 KB) Octets transmis:8784 (8.7 KB)
and content of file /etc/network/interfaces is only:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Problem is not solved if i do following instructions:
iwconfig eth1 essid <my network name>
iwconfig eth1mode Managed
iwconfig eth1 rate auto
iwconfig eth1 key <myKey>
Any suggestion(s)?? Thanks in advance
Regards
Hello,
I've recently installed Kubuntu10.10 on a laptop Acer TM660 (rather
old hardware now), running in 32b
with a Centrino chip for wireless connection but I didn't find how to
configure interfaces; in the
menu to configure the network I was able to put parameters for new
wireless connection but
surprisingly there is no option to bind connection with a specific
interface; thus, after that,
there is no mean to set up interface as it is not yet configurated;
command ifconfig -a gives:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:9f:2e:d9:bf
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B)
Interruption:10
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:23:77:53:2b
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B)
Interruption:10 Adresse de base:0xa000 Mémoire:e0206000-e0206fff
lo Link encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0
adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
Packets reçus:116 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
Octets reçus:8784 (8.7 KB) Octets transmis:8784 (8.7 KB)
and content of file /etc/network/interfaces is only:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Problem is not solved if i do following instructions:
iwconfig eth1 essid <my network name>
iwconfig eth1mode Managed
iwconfig eth1 rate auto
iwconfig eth1 key <myKey>
Any suggestion(s)?? Thanks in advance
Regards
Dear all,
While updating the error with following message appears:
Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
I already tried to solve the problem by looking for a troubleshooting.
Does anybody know what to do?
Thank you
--
Jean-Paul Piazzolla
YES academy
www.yesacademy.lu
Hi,
I'm pleased to report that I've developed a free software driver /
middleware for LuxTrust-issued smartcards. Details at
http://c3l.lu/wiki/index.php/Luxtrust#Using_Open_source_tools
Let me know of your experiences with it.
As usual, it should work on any Unix-or-clone-supported architecture,
not only Intel 32 bits.
That driver is not 100% my work, by far. As Newton said, I've been
standing on the shoulders of giants. First and foremost the whole
OpenSC framework development team and contributors, but also Georges
Bart; my patch to OpenSC is based on his, and on the existing GemSafe
v1 driver in OpenSC (LuxTrust cards are GemSafe v2 cards).
Now you know what I've been up to during hack.lu instead of listening
to the presentations :)
--
Lionel
Hi,
a word of warning for those of you using Ubuntu on a
NetBook: the new release 10.04, due this friday, has
a bug related to WLAN and WPA/WPA2, for RT2860 chips
as used in many Netbooks (such as the EEE 1000H).
While it can connect to unencrypted or WEP "encrypted"
WLANs, it is unable to connect to WPA/WPA2 APs.
It is fixed in a newer kernel release, but probably
won't be available for the launch of the new version.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/496093?comments=all
If you don't need such access, fine, but if you do,
and want to upgrade, you'll need to use a different
kernel (to be installed via other type of connectivity)
to have things working. The alternative is to delay the
upgrade until the fix is in the standard repositories.
Ah, the joys of beta-testing...
Eric
P.S. Launch party friday evening at the hackerspace:
https://www.hackerspace.lu/wiki/Ubuntu_10.04_Release_Party
Hi
A freiend of mine has Kubuntu 9.10 installed. He wants to have access to his
Fritz!Box by WLAN. Which card is well supported under Linux with WPA/WPA2
Support and an oss driver? USB or PCI perhaps with an external Antenna.
Thanks
--
Alex Loes
Centre des technologies de l'information de l'Etat
Téléphone: +352 49925 - 782
FAX: +352 49925 - 825
1, rue Mercier L-2144 Luxembourg
B.P. 1111 L-1011 Luxembourg
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: The GNOME Foundation is hiring a system administrator
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:27:43 -0600
From: Stormy Peters <stormy(a)gnome.org>
Reply-To: foundation-list(a)gnome.org
To: GNOME Foundation <foundation-list(a)gnome.org>, foundation-announce
<foundation-announce(a)gnome.org>
The GNOME Foundation is hiring a system administrator. Thanks to all
of you who have made this possible!
http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/JobDescription
= System Administrator Job Description =
The GNOME Foundation is seeking candidates for a part-time system
administrator position. The GNOME infrastructure cluster consists of a
distributed network of machines providing services such as version
control, bug tracking, web sites, and mailing lists to hundreds of
part and full-time GNOME developers, and to the GNOME user community.
The system administrator will work with and assist the volunteer GNOME
sysadmin team to keep these services running smoothly, securely, and
reliably, and to implement enhancements.
This position is not primarily a coding position, however a certain
amount of programming ability is needed to be able to maintain and
enhance the system administration scripts and custom web applications
that run on the GNOME servers.
This position reports to the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
The successful candidate will:
* Be able to conceive and execute projects independently without
detailed direction.
* Have experience working with volunteer and geographically
distributed communities.
* Be technically strong with experience in many or most of the
following technologies:
* Multiple GNU/Linux distributions with specific knowledge of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and Debian / Ubuntu distributions
* Python
* SQL databases
* PHP
* LDAP
* Puppet
* Mailman
* Have good communication skills in written and spoken English.
* Be passionate about Free Software and have knowledge regarding GNOME.
Other job requirements include:
* Ability to communicate and manage projects and priorities with a
distributed group of volunteers who make up the GNOME Sysadmin team
* Weekly and monthly communication with the Executive Director and
quarterly reports regarding the Sysadmin Team's work to the GNOME
Foundation.
There are no specific educational requirements for this position,
however a typical candidate will have completed or be in the process
of completing an undergraduate degree. Several years experience
maintaining production servers is mandatory.
== How to Apply ==
To apply for this job, send your resume to board-list(a)gnome.org.
== Timeline ==
* June 22nd: deadline for accepting resumes
* June 15-July 15th: phone interviews by hiring team
* July 25-30th: Follow up with top candidates.
* August 9th: Job starts.
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