Happy New Year Everyone:
What better way to ring in 2018 than to scramble and fix a ten-year-old security flaw in the processor.
There is a kernel memory leak in Intel processors design that now put Windows and Linux users in harms ways as programmers rush to apply patches as quickly as possible.
https://www.onmsft.com/news/intels-kerne...wing-patch
But wait!
As for Linux users, there are patches for the Linux kernel available now.
Hi again, I'm back with more questions!
I am now converting a Dell Inspiron 1300 to LL 3.4 and overall going well. Interestingly this Inspiron connected fine with the ethernet cable, updated fine, AND I checked for drivers (no Wifi ones came up) AND the Wifi is still not working.
A previous post of mine with a Dell Inspiron 1545 which had the same issue was resolved when a driver was identified via the "Update Drivers", however no drivers showed up for Wifi.
I have checked BIOS and the Wifi is enabled and I also pressed "Fn/F2" but still no Wifi comes on.
What does work is the Wifi USB stick so I have it in (just because it is less cumbersome that the ethernet cable) and ran ifconfig although I was not sure if maybe the ifconfig pertains only to ethernet issues..?
IF the information is useful here it is copy and pasted:
administrator@administrator-ME051:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:22:93:19:93
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:18
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:124450 (124.4 KB) TX bytes:124450 (124.4 KB)
wlx3c1e045acb74 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 3c:1e:04:5a:cb:74
inet addr:192.168.42.28 Bcast:192.168.42.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::17d0:f26:213b:c85e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10676 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11355019 (11.3 MB) TX bytes:1095297 (1.0 MB)
administrator@administrator-ME051:~$
So my question is: Does this info suggest what is wrong? AND might there be a reasonable fix?
I'm wondering if maybe the MiniPCI Device is shot"? If need be I can suggest to the person using this computer to simply work with the Wifi USB.
Thanks
I wanted to use i3 but it kept refusing, so what I did is I removed everything about XFCE so that LinuxLite has no choice but to choose i3. When I rebooted I see the original Linux Lite wallpaper and I entered my login and pass and then I see the Debian logo and the Fedora Desktop style Window Manager. I'm stuck...
This is what it says when I run env
XDG_VTNR=7
XDG_SESSION_ID=c2
CLUTTER_IM_MODULE=xim
XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/luc
GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID=3005
SESSION=gnome
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/home/luc/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
GJS_DEBUG_OUTPUT=stderr
UPSTART_SESSION=unix:abstract=/com/ubuntu/upstart-session/1000/1747
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=
GJS_DEBUG_TOPICS=JS ERROR;JS LOG
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
USER=luc
QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
SESSION_MANAGER=local/luc-MS-7917
/tmp/.ICE-unix/2001,unix/luc-MS-7917:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2001
DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/gnome.default.path
GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE=/home/luc/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made-3.desktop
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
PATH=/home/luc/bin:/home/luc/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
PWD=/home/luc
JOB=dbus
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_US
MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/gnome.mandatory.path
IM_CONFIG_PHASE=1
GDMSESSION=gnome
SESSIONTYPE=gnome-session
XDG_SEAT=seat0
HOME=/home/luc
SHLVL=1
LANGUAGE=en_US
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome
LOGNAME=luc
QT4_IM_MODULE=xim
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-ac7Lqj1PQr
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
INSTANCE=
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
DISPLAY=:0.0
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
XAUTHORITY=/home/luc/.Xauthority
_=/usr/bin/env
luc@luc-MS-7917:~$
EDIT: I did "i3 --replace &" it didn't worked, didn't worked either and it was just saying I was already running a window manager.
EDIT 2: I choose gdm and now everything is working perfectly, but I prefer lightdm for the look of the login screen. Oh well.
Hi there,
I am absolutely new to linux and have been using it for 2 days now. I would like to know how to install a .rpm file. I am trying to install Oracle 11g Express Edition.
Help! has anyone that dev running in ff 3.6 / Ivar
I don't usually make a habit of reminiscing on how it used to be with Windows OS & its software - that said, changing the background colour of the whole page, and saving that change, for an individual file in MS Word, was dead easy.
However, I find that when I set the background page colour in LibreOffice Writer, all my Writer files subsequently have that colour, rather than limiting the colour change to a specific file.
I can't find any simple intuitive way of doing the above in LibreOffice Writer.
Can someone give me a clue on how to do this ...
Many thanks.
Newly install 3.6 64 bits
I set it to suspend after 30 minutes of no activity, but when it gets there it asks for authentication!
Cheers Brian
I will be getting another new machine by the end of this month and I'm going to dedicate a partition to Linux Lite 64bit. I intend to test and do some debugging of the new Remmina edition which has finally made it as far as backports in Deb stable and a new PPA in Ubuntu LTS. This is an application well suited to the LL philosophy of GUI simplicity and friendliness. As far as gnome-boxes it is suited to LL for the same reasons. Much easier to set up and use than Oracle though I am not sure how Qemu will work, if at all with LL. I use it regularly in Ubuntu LTS and again its simplicity for USB switching and the simple GUI make it a great candidate for Windows converts wanting to run virtual systems. It is certainly the simplest. I think both of these applications are very well suited for a "transitioning" Linux distribution.
TC
Hi.
Background (may be boring stuff)
This is one of my MS windows habits when it comes to copy files from my digital camera to local disk. When I used windows, I always used to use MS explorer and sort files by attributes - because that way, I was able to sort out new files only - that is the files where the attribute archive are set. And from there, I could easilly copy only new files from memory card to disk, and then unset the archive attributes for all files on SD-card that was copied.
I have found no way of being able to sort the files in same way using Thunar. Assume the archive attribute is a fat/ntfs feature only.
So I think I need help to solve the problem in either of two ways:
1. copy files - but only those files where archive attribute is set.
In MS-dos / windows command line - the command is xcopy /A.
2. Copy files - but only those that is changed after given date.
This also work for me. The "only copy files achive attribute set" solution would be the best one because about every digital camera utilize fat filesystem, and I don't need to look at the files using a file manager to look for the last date after last time I copied files from camera.
3. Same as 2 - but store a timestamp for when the file copy operation occured last time
Don't know if this is possible. I thinking of storing a local file onto the sd card (in the camera). That text file should consist of one line only, and that is a string that contains the date and time. That time stamp should be changed every time the file copy is done.
And - for every file copy operation, only the files that has a timestamp that is newer than the time stored in text file should be copied.
Tanks
I have installed VM Win XP successfully, but it wants to go online to validate the product code I entered.
Simple question: is this possible?
I am the target audience for LL, with no interest in coding etc. Following is a sample of FAQ on Virtualbox site (they should try this out on people, face to face! Though maybe it's only aimed at those in the know).
"Q:I have set up a VM with NAT networking, but it can't access internet while my Host system can.
A: NAT only translates TCP or UDP. Additionally it handles a subset of ICMP necessary for ping. One of the common reasons is that your task requires another IP protocol. Some VPN protocols use GRE which is not translated.
Another common issues is that the DNS relay within the VirtualBox VMM only forwards all DNS queries to the first configured DNS server known to the host and does not search the entire DNS server list. If this DNS server is offline the hot will fail-over to the second server on the DNS list, etc., but the guest will effectively loose DNS." .... it gets worse after this ....
I will probably stay with Win7 pc for my cad work.