A word from Richard Stallman: Kettling Wikileaks

Original Message Subject: Kettling Wikileaks Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:56:55 -0500 From: Defective by Design i...@defectivebydesign.org This article is available from DefectiveByDesign at: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/wikileaks Or from the Guardian Newspaper at:

Re: Number of kernels in /boot Fedora vs. Ubuntu

show up in the menu, right? I think Jerry was asking more about how you manage the quantity of kernel packages that remain installed. My recollection is that there is no automation for that on Debian/Ubuntu. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: wireless bridge w/encryption?

, and like boot loaders that don't get overwritten on upgrades. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: keyboard trends

Ethan Schwartz wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Newer HP laptops reverse the logic of the Fn modifier key, such that you have to press the modifier to get the traditional F1-F12 function. Those same HP's also have an option in their BIOS that lets you decide whether to the Fn modifier default

Re: wireless keyboards

exhibiting reliability problems, but the broader issue apparently is a slight delay they introduce, which supposedly is bad for gaming. The benefit to wireless doesn't seem worth the bother - at least not for a work desktop - so I'm only considering wired models. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: keyboard trends

, and that would be pretty hard to make configurable. :-) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: security ofwireless keyboards

/sn/sn-271.mp3 Other episodes: http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: Microsoft keyboards

evidence of that. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: Forms-design application builder tool?

browsable/updateable views of, say, DNS records), what framework would you start with? That's a rather different question. Catalyst, Mojolicious (http://mojolicious.org/), PSGI/Plack (http://plackperl.org/), or whatever is the latest flavor... -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

force connect to hidden wireless network

a new profile. I'm guessing this is a bug. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: 10 gigabit ethernet

10G and 1G Ethernet, there's motivation for a software solution, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone has created an NFS driver or set of kernel parameters tuned for these circumstances. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

Re: force connect to hidden wireless network

WLAN, but I know my solution won't handle that well, so I'd like to find a better solution. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss

GNOME session management and crash recovery

the state? The 'gnome-session-save' command would make this trivial to implement, but it is broken in 2.28.1. Do newer versions of GNOME handle crash recovery better? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: ubutn 9.10 audio and video

said to add: options snd-hda-intel model=my laptop model to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. Something that wasn't covered by any of the generic troubleshooting guides. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: R.I.P. Ken Olsen

Jon maddog Hall posted a nice remberance of Ken: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Rest-in-Peace-Kenneth-Harry-Olsen -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: New Router Suggestions

, and not Tomato or one of the other firmwares, 2. you can get a router with the desired hardware specs, and 3. at the price point you want. If not, installing 3rd party firmware is pretty easy, as long as you pick a router that has been well tested with your chosen firmware. -Tom -- Tom Metro

Re: kernel panic

is that the machine only supports 4 GB max (clearly not true). I also notice on startup it reports a memory bus speed of 800 MHz, instead of the expected 1066 MHz. Could be the old 2 GB module dragging it down. I haven't investigated yet.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise

Re: kernel panic

Tom Metro wrote: If this is a practical option, I'll dig deeper and see if I can turn up a guide for using it with an Ubuntu kernel. Installing kexec-tools did generate this warning: update-rc.d: warning: kdump start runlevel arguments (2) do not match LSB Default-Start values (0 1 2 3 4 5

Re: 30% Apple

market cap stands at $422 billion... Apple fanboys rejoice. Apple is the new Microsoft. :=-) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss

Re: 30% Apple

magazine impossible. I hear Amazon's affiliate program works in a similar fashion. A colleague refuses to use it for that reason. A good e-commerce platform provides not only leads and sales for the content provider, but lets them build a relationship with the consumer. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Android tablets

Honeycomb, the next-generation version of Android optimized for tablets. It ships this spring in Europe and Asia; no U.S. launch date has been announced yet. -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: dual monitors

in the center of one screen (instead of split across the middle of both like you describe). Most applications handle it correctly. I was expecting the less used ones to have issues, but I was surprised to see something as mainstream as OOo not handling it correctly. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: dual monitors

might try this. How do you switch between displays (designate which receives keyboard and mouse input)? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: dual monitors

observed on a dual-monitor setup. So at least some of what I'm observing isn't unique to my setup. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss

Re: crowdsourced cellular coverage maps

in deciding which carrier might fare best in an area. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: Android tablets

http://mashable.com/2011/01/07/motorola-xoom-android-honeycomb-video/ The Motorola Xoom is the first tablet to run the Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. Revealed at CES earlier this week, the device sports a 1GHz dual core processor, a 10-inch screen and 4G connectivity. Another Xoom review:

Re: X crashes with SSID Broadcast turned off

and replace (or set) $SSID with your hidden SSID. it would seem that in order to prevent such a crash, Ubuntu and its variants would require SSID be turned on. I can't speak for 10.10, but 9.10 and older versions have never crashed on me due to a hidden SSID. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton

Re: SQL-Lite / PHP question

, or to confirm /etc/apt/preferences settings. aptitude show package should tell you the version of the package you have installed, or the current version that will be installed. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: Three Days with NOOKcolor

tables available in the coming months with similar specs and price points to the NOOKcolor, most likely coming preloaded with Honeycomb. So it's still probably worth while to wait. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile

Re: Northeast Linuxfest April 2, 2011

, with an optional $30 donation. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: White balance for the whole X desktop

Then X Screen 0 - X Server Color Correction Not helpful in my case, as it applies to the entire X display, and not a specific monitor. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: How do hard drives handle bad blocks nowadays?

better than Nabble, which has gone down hill in recent years.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Nagios, Gnome 3, Genesi's Efika MX Smarttop

compatible eSATA ports that you could wire to an external drive cage, and GB Ethernet, then it would make for a decent NAS controller. Otherwise you'd probably be better off with a hackable WD Mybook or the like. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

, they should restart into the virtual desktop they were on at shutdown. Agreed. Session persistence has been a long standing problem in GNOME. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: ZFS and block deduplication

also employ overall file hashing to insure the integrity of a file? (Or is that the verification option you referred to?) If so, then that would likely thwart this attack vector.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: Speaking of on-line/cloud storage... Wuala

to ultimately remember the original password. Which is as it should be. So I assume the terms are inaccurately worded. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: Gnome 3 Discussions

of maybe 40% or more of all desktop Linux users, and a fairly sizable percentage of those will be power users that want to carry forward at least some GNOME 2 behaviors. So I think the chances are fairly good that we'll see plugins to do that. Tom Metro wrote: Your complaint was that you

Re: wireless configuration

in the with dhclient timing out too early when using wpa_supplication on 802.1x wired networks. Do you know why that would happen in a normal case, where dhclient is event triggered, instead of time delay triggered? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open

Re: VIrtualization HA challenge

heard mixed messages on the production readiness of things like DRBD. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity

(perhaps good for a small screen or touch screen navigation) and the Mac-style window menus in the top bar seem more problematic. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity

that ships by default on the bottom of the window is a similar fail. The user spends most of the time interacting with the middle to the top of application windows, yet to switch applications the mouse has to travel to the bottom of the screen? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity

, independent of instance (i.e. it correctly groups FF windows together, as well as Chrome windows). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: All-in-one touch screen computers

screen and use it like a large screen portable. It's not like you would forgo having a mouse, anyway. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

[SPAM] [Discuss] [SPAM] Re: iptables, one-to-one NAT

Tom Metro wrote: To sum up, the physical structure is like: { Internet } -- [ DSL Modem ] -- [WAN router LAN] -- { LAN } While the virtual structure (due to PPPoE) is like: { Internet } ---PPPoE--- [WAN ] [ router

Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

unexpectedly. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/ -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

, but isn't your bank. I suppose we need highly visible feedback in the web browser and email client indicating a verified cert, which is what they've already done for extended validation certificates. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

the pattern of data bursts to English phrases?) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Small Form Factor PCs

exactly that: http://www.micasaverde.com/ (Earlier versions of this product clearly use a repurposed ASUS router. They've since switched to a custom platform.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] list archives gone?

Ben Eisenbraun wrote: In any case, are there plans to restore the archives? In the mean time, offsite archives can be found here: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.boston.discuss -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] Z-Wave?

Z-Wave adoption by hardware vendors is progressing slowly. There is a vastly greater variety of devices available for X-10, though I don't see that as a meaningful comparison, as in my experience X10 had such poor reliability as to be useless. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

[Discuss] Hardware Hacking mailing list

hacking in general. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Hardware Hacking

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Re: [Discuss] Dell

the OEM for Dell for a while, that makes me rethink the quality reputation of ASUS. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

commercial solution. Clearly economies of scale haven't hit items like these drive cages, given that you can get an entire computer enclosure with power supply for half their price. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

). Ideally, if you could get enough users agreeing to a set of specifications, you might be able to get some manufacturers to step up and supply any components that aren't currently off-the-shelf items. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

[Discuss] unRAID

the equivalent with ZFS or some other open source technology? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://blu.org

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

capacity drive both require several steps to be performed through the unRAID UI. These ought to be fully automated. Thanks for the additional research, Bill. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

it? Yes. At least it did. My solution was to create a separate profile that had FB and other dev extension installed, and run a parallel instance of FF that would be used for dev work. (It takes some trickery, but you can coax FF to run multiple instances.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

[Forwarding on behalf of Rich Braun, whose list subscription needs adjustment, and apparently the list management UI isn't working yet. -Tom] Original Message Subject: Re: unRAID Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:04:43 + From: Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net Edward Net Harvey

Re: [Discuss] BLU Meeting: Arduino Hacking 101: Importing the Universe

of sensors and actuators. If you found this talk of interest, join us on the BLU Hardware Hacking list: http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking I'll be asking Federico some follow-up questions there. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

is going to run $200+. What's on the market for small-scale NASs is already cheap by enterprise standards. But there is still a noticeable server tax on these small system. At least some of it is justifiable due to lower volumes. So it is a harder problem to solve. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, 2.5 drives

for enterprise markets. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

, resulting is less wasted space (.89 - you need some space for the eject mechanism). (They should provide better ventilation, too.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] BLU Meeting: Arduino Hacking 101: Importing the Universe

James Kramer wrote: Has a copy of Federico's talk posted on the site? He gave the same talk at OSCON. Looks like he posted the slides there: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18831 -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

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[Discuss] BLU Job Posting Policy

email in response to each form submission.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Power consumption

. (Most mid-range power strips contain some sort of filtering. Rarely do they have a GFI.) The filtering circuit contains components like capacitors that are placed across the line. 1. http://www.cor.com/Series/PEM/C/ (see Electrical Schematics) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

[Discuss] [OT] Apple is the AOL of consumer electronics

in the near term. On the other hand, avoiding a siloed environment does potentially reduce frustration, if you are the type of person who wants to be able to do anything with the hardware you own, even at the price of using a less polished end-product. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

Re: [Discuss] Copy MAC address list from on Linksys router to another

. Google returns plenty of links. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

maintenance, and a wiki that lets you automate some of that helps. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] ZFS

Nexenta.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] LVM Re: A really interesting chain of functionality

of manual management. I haven't deployed it on a system since 2006. Unfortunately, there aren't good alternatives for it on Linux. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] ZFS

the project (or defensive patent portfolio) to fend off attacks. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] ZFS

(or not? need to see some benchmarks), or at least a justified cost for a more self-maintaining storage appliance. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] more on software patent

they are. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] open protocols for IP-TV

content providers will be compelled to support the format.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] open protocols for IP-TV

Dan Ritter wrote: Tom Metro wrote: The glaring obvious absence here is an open protocol for IP-TV. Yeah, we have that. It's called DVB-IPTV. I see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-IPTV Is this the IPTV protocol that MythTV supports? (I know it has had experimental support for an IPTV

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_regulator -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

, I wouldn't expect it would matter whether to two current waveforms are in sync. The meter would just see it as a waveform distortion, and should still give you the RMS power. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] Econonomic contribution

phones and tablets would likely not be at their current state for another 2 to 5 years without his vision (comparatively the easy part) and execution of his business strategy (the hard part). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

Re: [Discuss] Do you know of a Dynamic DNS service that doesn't demand I install software?

=dhis.website.updating.updates -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Verizon ADSL and port blocking

Bill Horne wrote: If there are other ways to scan my IP, please tell m how. ShieldsUP https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Security

got why large corporations were always so willing to completely open their internal networks to their employee's home computers, and always preferred VPNs to port forwarding (which I find far simpler to setup, than a VPN client). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise

[Discuss] Richard Pieri wrote:, Android doesn't support S/MIME out of the box, either.

Richard Pieri wrote: Android doesn't support S/MIME out of the box, either. Speaking of which, what are people using for an IMAP client on Android? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Linux box for under $20? TRENDnet

that it is sitting on a shelf gathering dust, I ought to try loading a 3rd party firmware onto it and put it to some use. I wish Dnsmasq was designed to operate in a master/slave fail-over arrangement. If it was, I'd set it up as a backup DHCP/DNS server. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

second that approach. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] to Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu

and customized GNOME2 environment. The question I'd put to the community is: If you have been using Ubuntu since 10.4 or earlier, and you've upgraded or are planning to, what option did you take? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

[Discuss] Ubuntu alternatives and upgrading distributions

to the desktop...yet you can't. Surprisingly the core of the OS - the kernel - is actually relatively easy to upgrade without upgrading the full OS. Instead the linchpin for any desktop OS version seems to be the libc version and secondly the GUI environment version. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture

Re: [Discuss] Off-Topic [IP] BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet?

and adjust the retry parameters. And flatten out the number of hops from source to destination. Right. [Thanks to Stephen Ronan for sharing the article. I'd heard about this buffer bloat issue before, but hadn't read the details.] -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise

[Discuss] live podcast BLU meetings

app is unique in that it streams audio in 128 kilobits and includes features like live chat and Skype call-in, in addition to social sharing. There's also an online web platform that lets you edit the recording... -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open

Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

of CSPAN. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] live podcast BLU meetings

. Presumably such permission is already being sought and granted. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] build my own cell phone

be to start with a purchased phone and mod it in some fashion. I'm not aware of any phones that are designed to permit swapping components. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

[Discuss] [OT] Microsoft's Standalone System Sweeper

alternate bootloaders, like GRUB or Truecrypt, as infected and replace them? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

[Discuss] Full disk encryption

using? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

to camelegg.com, it is on a downward price trend, so it may be discounted further: http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16859321016?utm_campaign=firefox_extutm_source=product_link_ttputm_medium=www -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

Bill Horne wrote: Oa k'wala wrote: Any thoughts on the kind of security risk I might be vulnerable to because I only encrypt my home dir as opposed to the full disk? Many applications use /tmp or /var files as working storage, and they leave ghosts behind. As does swap. -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] BitLocker

Richard Pieri wrote: On Jan 2, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Tom Metro wrote: What makes Microsoft BitLocker better than TrueCrypt? ... because it protects against more attack modes than other software. Granted, I was being lazy by asking the question rather than looking it up, but repeating the quote I

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption, why bother?

Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Are you using full disk encryption? I don't. I take care of my gear. I made this statement before: I see WDE as enabler for carelessness. The EFF article I quoted references a prior EFF article on border crossing inspections. The encouragement

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

Daniel Feenberg wrote: The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish... What tool do they use? Any other distributions that provide an integrated solution? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

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