oftware might help network engineers observe
and understand these fast phenomena, and cure some rather
subtle gigabit-rate signalling and cabling problems.
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s, and uploaded it. The team
is still tweaking and upgrading the code, but Voyager 1
is talking to Earth again. Therapy continues.
NASA announced their success on Monday April 22; I just
heard about it.
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followed by zero things forever.
And now, if you all will excuse me, I have things to do.
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ades, until THEY are 70yo. MANY competitive rich
showoffs (100,000 batteries! 1,000,000!) could make the
geek supplying them a rich showoff as well. Greener than
private jets and giant yachts and bitcoin mining farms.
Just sayin' ... :-)
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>The technician tested the service with his laptop; he got
>330/330 mbps test results. I'm only getting 95/95 mbps
>after my 24 port gigabit switch, but there may be some
>slow cat5 somewhere on the path. I'll debug that soon.
On Fri, Apr 12
take my ONT and power station to picnics, unless
the picnic tables are provisioned for fast optical fiber.
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> Ziply offers 100/100 consumer grade service for $45
> per month (first year is $20 per month), with support
> from an Asian call center.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 01:27:51AM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> Fwiw, every time I've called Zipy sup
ies.
However, the electronics in the Optical Network Terminal
may be finicky about voltage levels, and I would need to
pry open the ONT case to access the internal plug and jack.
Thanks for the suggestion; if you've had better long-term
success with car battery UPS, tell me more.
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free. I just bought a second
Ooma box for the fax.
Bottom line: after we cancel Comcast, we will pay $60 per
month for very fast internet, and $0 per month for a voice
phone and a fax phone. Much better than $170 per month
for slow and intermittent Comcast. I hope - failure is
(sadly) always an
ng far less power
for internal operation.
Do products like that exist? Where can I buy one?
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and static IP addresses.
I don't need Ziply for that now. I connect to my offsites
with VPN tunnels (soon Wireguard). But fail-over relies
on an "-over" prepared and tested in advance. The need is
usually sudden and externally imposed, and almost always
concurrent with many other unexpe
Many people use SMS messaging and handheld screen taps,
but not email.
Is there a good SMS-to-SMTP-email service Out There?
Alternatively, is there a good Linux-compatible
hardware for this task?
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r and the foreign and the sexually different.
Or on the agro-Americans who suffer those sad paranoias.
But then, that's what THEY want you to think.
Sweet dreams!
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door plug with NTSB.
The firewall will be updated soon, and will be on a
UPS, but before upgrades are complete, there will be
funny behaviors like that, and some of you may wonder
"WTF is keithl doing?" even MORE than most times.
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to a different problem, OK?
-
So, the ask:
What should I read or learn about so I can debug the screen
tearing that Bookworm inflicts on my beloved Thinkpads?
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ndalone content
that I can also deploy on net-disconnected laptops.
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e transitions
to Century Link from (Pacific Bell?) in Portland and
Multnomah County.
Perhaps Randy Bush is reading this, and can replace my 20%
memory errors with his own.
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>Anybody on the list subscribed to Ziply Fiber?
THANKS TO ALL for EXCELLENT and COGENT responses to my question
about Ziply static IP. $10 (or even $50) extra per month for a
business class connection with a static IP is well worth it -
much t
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n office in an industrial area might see subsecond
line voltage sags when a nearby factory is arc welding.
I can imagine those driving some computer power supplies
and UPS units batty.
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rrupt and resume" is just another neglected
aspect of larger processes that are only partly addressed
by a UPS.
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ks, it makes BEYOOTIFUL
color images, unlike the Brother MFC-9440CN that I mostly
use. The Brother is easy to fix and clean, but the images
look like a child's crayon drawings. Sigh.
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:44:53PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> It would be great to work with collaborators who can help
> me upgrade that server to Debian Bookworm and the web
> pages to mediawiki.
MediaWiki - I'm stuck. The basic wiki behavior is working,
but the next step (before
(near the end of setup) when I tried
using a different path to a different disk partition
(mostly to simplify backups). Fortunately, I can achieve
the same backup organization with symlinks.
2a) next step, wikifarm
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to Debian, and translating
ancient MoinMoin websites to MediaWiki.
Then, back to my main mission:
Changing The World, or at least The World's Poopy Diapers.
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 12:43:29PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
...
> I "wget-ed" a website, and was soon contacted by a
> panicked/angry sysadmin watching their website brought
> to a crawl because their 5 mbps upload bandwidth was
> clobbered for hours by my scrape of thei
eneral.
A struggle, given my 70yo-yet-still-immature brain.
Fortunately, kids are too busy gaming to get on my lawn.
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d, enlarge it."
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source of reliable 32GB flash drives, quantity 50, with
printed/embossed logos?
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forever. Perhaps a low-power Arduino will serve as a
print server.
Perhaps I should worry instead about lifting 50 pound
printers when I am 80 years old, or finding trustworthy
third party toner cartridge suppliers, if Brother and HP
stop providing CUPS driver support for legacy machines.
Much larger ping times for ComCANT, different ratios.
- What extra services to you pay for?
- What do you pay per month?
Reply off-list if you prefer.
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what our internet providers actually
provide, especially first-packet latency. Suggestions?
Keith
P.S. We can also move to Bitly - the former Verizon fiber
modem is still in the garage. Is Bitly any better?
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stuff, and building large apps from
source will soon be beyond my skill set.
So, DEB distros with long term support, please.
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Stanford EE professor friend used to say: "Real Men
program with solder". I am pleased that he also teaches
Real Women (and other emerging gender categories) to
program with solder as well.
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invent a profitable product. You
aren't the only customer who cares beans about coffee.
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arts
B MFC-7420. Also a scratched imaging drum tray, and a
scratched fuser from the 9440CN, perhaps usable for
frankenstein-re-assembly repair. Free to anyone who wants
to drive out to east Beaverton for them.
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ill endure for
a decade or two? Or is it more reasonable to rely on
Debian MATE?
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have
zero copies".
Given my frequent typing mistaeks, I aim for four copies,
with one copy in a bank vault, miles away.
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de-installed xsane-gimp
on her desktop machine, and the scanner connected fine.
I'm not sure why xsane-gimp was installed, or why we
might want to scan directly into gimp someday, but for
now we do better without it.
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might have prettier furnishings, but a jail
is a jail, even if you can pick some of the locks.
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f where the cables are hooked up
(yours and theirs) and the state of the blinky lights.
Knowing which blinky lights change when the cable modem
STOPS working speeds diagnosis. I'm going to find the
the modem service manual and figure out what all the
blinky lights actually mean ... real soon now
suming I'm still connected, and the rest of you still
are. Cross fingers. The "singularity" is a divide by
zero, and zero is looking more likely.
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I presume by "TB" you mean Thunderbolt, not Terabyte or
Tuberculosis. Ellis Island was a TB port a century ago.
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(*) visions of the Personal Telco 500, a high speed
automobile race where the lead car with the access point
races around the track, while distracted drivers race
behind it with their laptops, debugging and uploading
kernel patches; Indy Indie networking! :-)
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time.
If I need to make an operating-system-mediated drive-to-
drive copy, two enclosures is twice as fast. With low
bandwidth USB2, that matters a lot. So, the total
energy per copy is less with two enclosures.
Something to ponder. Small acknowledged mistakes can
forestall bigger ones.
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them.
So, what can I use to tweak these PDF pages?
Keith
BTW, poorly tested updates and core tool frobbing seems
to be more common. Perhaps that is because I am less
agile now, with a lot of legacy data to maintain and no
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Design in due process and civil rights protection. 99% of
such designs will be ineffective or invasive or non-legal,
but an excellent solution may lurk in the remaining 1%.
Sounds like a great Linux app to me!
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goals. He's starting to study for a law
degree, with a long term goal of repairing the legislation.
I hope his integrity survives.
On topic moral:
Don't write bad software, or politicians will force you
to write even worse software.
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and 25%
are angry enough to do something about it, that is
100 million torts or $30 billion per year. Frontier's
market cap is $1.1 billion, so Oregon owns them in two
weeks, other carriers with similar policies ditto. We
sell the assets to new and responsible owners, and fund
the schools with t
inux Widow(er)s Guide" seems clunky and harder for
a librarian to catalog, but might actually sell better.
I imagine there are many "Linux Spouses" on this list
with similar dependents; would anyone else like to
contribute writing to this project?
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deal using firefox, chrome, and opera. A server
configuration error. Call them and let them know,
though I bet the phone pool workers are in a different
Chinese province than the semi-incompetent IT wonks who
misconfigured the web server and IP address assignment.
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ve.
Perhaps we should collaborate and figure out a good
way to do this, without the extra external "toaster"
and more cables to fail. A power brick, wires, and a
switch, not an extra box. Or simply a small PCB with
a front panel on/off switch and circuit breakers that
trigger if the system pow
you
understand how a less-than-perfect programmer might
be flummoxed as well. There's a good chance you are
listening to the result of such a flummox.
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I don't have to do this
often, but our friends at Mozilla seem to prefer churn.
Perhaps they should get a job at Microsoft, churning Word.
I prefer the fewer failures, fewer features corner of the
map. I can generate plenty of my own failures, thank you.
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ntial
accumulation of buggy complexity. Perhaps we will
have time for regression testing ...
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On Mon, Apr 3, 2017, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for examples (with explanatory comments) of
> customized configuration files to use in the /etc/grub.d
> directory, somewhere out there on the intertubes.
Tom H on the Scientific Linux mailing list of
b2/CustomMenus
but my brain is too small to translate that into the
solution that I am hoping for.
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ktop, sinking both.
Keith
P.S. If I had ten million dollars, I would need a hundred
million dollars to do all the great projects I can imagine
doing with ten million dollars. Sigh.
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shonest 40 year olds?).
Don't know if they work. Don't know which firmware
version. Don't know if the GS716T sucks. They have
standard IEC power cord sockets, but no power cords;
bring one with you for testing.
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For example, ecoBinary retails perhaps 10% of what they
get for recycling, mostly from businesses. Ask the person
at the counter (usually Mickie) to watch for what you want.
I asked for three IBM X61 thinkpads, and they found them
for me in a week.
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ork environment.
Setting up Mate can be a pain in the ass, but there are
many in the CentOS community helping to make that easier.
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old distro, but it is easy to modify. It would be even
easier if "standard" tool maintainers were more
intelligent and responsible and less "creative".
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# ifbr60 - average traffic rate
nuals
may be vital to those trying to keep the remaining
fraction of our economy functioning.
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you
want, not just the sites that Joe Q. Couchpotato wants.
There is a small but nonzero chance that they are evil
bastards, and are moving you to a slower switch with
more NSA spy hardware attached. Unlikely, I hope ...
In any case, get some data that matters to you. Then
try again in a
start page.
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> ...
> The power of Unix/Linux is that shell scripts can automate
> what you do frequently.
> ...
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 01:21:21AM -0800, King Beowulf wrote:
> ...
> Often a properly designed GUI is quicker and more int
rcise, grow a
garden and get sunshine and vegetables for your efforts.
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that
doesn't belong there. Don't do that, move those unholy
files to your main partition, and sin no more. You can
do that with a live CD, or in repair mode, too. But if
the distro put those files in boot, let not man split
asunder. :-)
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ay, state-sponsored cyberterrorists may firebomb
whole cities with a few well-hidden exploits like that.
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command line script that enables
my wifi (I leave that turned off by default), connects
to PSUguest, fills out the script, then activates the
openvpn link to my home network. Seems like someone
with better programming skills and a similar network
setup could figure this out in 30 minutes.
Kei
rotating mirrors and gears and
motors, the printers in storage (sans toner) are available
to anyone willing to drive me from East Beaverton to
Tigard (217 and Greenberg) to pick them up. Otherwise,
they get recycled Real Soon Now.
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.
I wish there was a way to force it to always ignore "open"
xfinity hotspots, besides burning down the houses
containing the WAPs that broadcast it. :-(
To avoid further arson prosecutions, I suppose I must
set up a shell script in cron.daily to seek out the
xfinity entries and delet
rebuilding the GMANE interface
at the Internet Archive.
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on the E, my wife is has less IT discipline (hence my
involvement and concern for the G). If she loses a
phone, I want to be able to remotely wipe it without
worrying about data recovery.
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've got their s**t together. Pronounced "doe-doe",
like the extinct flightless bird, indicates a clueless
newbie. I hope this is an additional incentive to
snarky tool writers to write this for me.
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make too many mistakes with GUIs. Making backup
directories, then making scripts that I can review
obsessively, is a much safer way to do a cleanup.
One surprise was that there was nothing like "Jack's
Porn Shop" in the hundreds of names. I would have
guessed I was more curious a
ent:
https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0122/P150914/014/LIGO-P150914:Detection_of_GW150914.pdf
http://tiny.cc/dligo
Design description, Linux mentioned on page 37 third paragraph:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/7/074001/pdf
http://tiny.cc/aligo
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to test the whole internet, not just my last mile of it.
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h the improvements of others,
but please make the effort to read that page first.
And if any TENURED PSU FACULTY are reading this, please
create the website mordac.pdx.edu and populate it with
solutions to PSU IT problems.
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I will gladly surrender it to
the only other Keith Lofstrom on the planet.
> Assuming that _everyone_ has one
Assuming that I "assume that _everyone_" does anything
is also invalid. If you want to use some other webmail
account that works the same way, be my guest.
I was
e rest of it was
trial and error, hours of trying different things, including
different laptops, different linux versions, different wifi
cards, different places at PSU, power cycling, battery removal.
Some steps may be unnecessary. Please experiment further.
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Archive of the old site until a replacement is created:
Hardware monitoring is important - where do we go from here?
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John, do us a favor and do NOT surf Chinese websites during
times of heightened international tension!
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> John, do us a favor and do NOT surf Chinese websites during
> times of heightened international tension!
Forgive me - this is plug, not plug-talk, and I should say
something marginally germane to the original question
(in this case xfinity), avoiding the frequent
hassle of bypassing it so I can access a new and different hotspot?
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disk. But most
people believe that sofware-only security is sufficient, so
I don't expect to see such hardware soon.
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open source version of Chromium Adobe flash compatible?
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get rebuilt by Firefox, so it
keeps complaining even after the update.
Is there any way to turn off the nag? I make presentations with
embedded flash, and it really sucks to have the nags show up in
front of an audience.
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a little
something to avoid pain. For those of us ready to graduate from
"gratis" Linux to "least total cost" Linux, a new distro to fill
the role that Redhat used to fill (stodgy but predictable) would
be welcomed, and could be very profitable.
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:17:59PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> It would be nice to find a more expensive drive dock with
> thicker gold plating. It would also be nice if test labs
> would measure this stuff and publish results in something
> like what Consumer Reports used t
ould measure this stuff and publish results in something
like what Consumer Reports used to be, before they devolved
into knob counting and political opinions.
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I have some idea of what is possible.
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have all three, and even have ethernet. Most problems stem
from projector and screen aspect ratio, with older systems
using 4:3 and newer systems using 16:10 or 16:9 or some
other media-focused aspect ratio.
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helpful to kill -9 and restart Firefox from time to time.
That frees up RAM, and helps me pretend I'm still in control.
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> >Sometimes one of the characters in my gnome-terminal instances
> >(I typically run about 20) loses a few black pixels - on every
> >instance of that character on every terminal instance.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 02:57:39PM -0700, Ken Stephens wrote
tore its font tables, or render them?
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