> > Just using your current setup you can get some content filtering using DNS. Opendns provides a free service to do that. https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/
I don't know if that will help with the piracy usage though. I forgot about OpenDNS until after I sent the email. I configured the modem to hand out the OpenDNS ip addrs via DHCP. I tested it. It with a few sites and it blocked those, but the real test will be when people start using it as one cannon imagine all the dark & creepy corners of the Internet that people like to explore. The biggest problem with freee OpenDNS is that when a web site is blocked throws up a generic Microsoft tech support page instead of something more useful like"access to this site has been blocked because the content violates our service usage policy." On Jun 9, 2018 10:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: Send PLUG mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of PLUG digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure (Ben Koenig) 2. Re: Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure (Dick Steffens) 3. Re: Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure (John Jason Jordan) 4. Resolved: Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure (Dick Steffens) 5. Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs? (Mike C.) 6. Re: Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs? (Bill Barry) 7. Re: Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs? (Bill Barry) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 12:32:12 -0700 From: Ben Koenig <[email protected]> To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure Message-ID: <caj_5au11lqwj7s-1fmmumfrvaep9rjf_dhztjyjddhbobib...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/08/2018 08:13 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> sudo do-release-upgrade >> upgrades to 16.10 or 18.04 >> > > Do not attempt to perform a release upgrade while your repository is in a broken state. In fact, do not attempt to perform any sort of installation or upgrade until you resolve the error with Google Earth. You will break your system to the point where the only solution is to reinstall from scratch. I've seen this error countless times since 8.04. This error literally predates Mint and end users have a tendency to break their installs over some bad error reporting. Resolve the error for apt-get update before attempting any further steps. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 12:40:35 -0700 From: Dick Steffens <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 06/08/2018 12:32 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 06/08/2018 08:13 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >>> sudo do-release-upgrade >>> upgrades to 16.10 or 18.04 >>> >> > Do not attempt to perform a release upgrade while your repository is in a > broken state. > > In fact, do not attempt to perform any sort of installation or upgrade > until you resolve the error with Google Earth. You will break your system > to the point where the only solution is to reinstall from scratch. > > I've seen this error countless times since 8.04. This error literally > predates Mint and end users have a tendency to break their installs over > some bad error reporting. Resolve the error for apt-get update before > attempting any further steps. I've never done an upgrade, only updates. Most of the time, and all of the time in the past five or more years, I've always had another machine on which to try out the newer version. I'm in that state now with 18.04. I did an install of Ubuntu MATE 18.04 on my other desktop machine and ran into problems. Someone pointed out that waiting for 18.04.1 was safer, so I'm doing that. Meanwhile I still get notices to update 16.04. So I'll go through the other recommended steps after work this afternoon, and see how that goes. Thanks for the warning. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 13:13:45 -0700 From: John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure Message-ID: <20180608131345.07442861@Devil-Bonobo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 12:40:35 -0700 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo: >I've never done an upgrade, only updates. Most of the time, and all of >the time in the past five or more years, I've always had another >machine on which to try out the newer version. I'm in that state now >with 18.04. I did an install of Ubuntu MATE 18.04 on my other desktop >machine and ran into problems. Someone pointed out that waiting for >18.04.1 was safer, so I'm doing that. Meanwhile I still get notices to >update 16.04. So I'll go through the other recommended steps after >work this afternoon, and see how that goes. Everyone tells me to do a clean install instead of a dist-upgrade. That probably works well for them because the stock install has almost everything they need. For me a fresh install is a pain. The last time I did it I spent a week getting everything installed and configured. I'm not exaggerating - a full week of long days. I recently did a dist-upgrade of the computer I'm writing this on from 14.04 to 16.04. Lots of things were messed up, but it took me only a couple days to get things back in order. And Ubuntu deliberately does not list a new LTS as available in the Update Manager until the first dot release. But regarding things getting messed up, why in the hell did the dist-upgrade decide to uninstall all my KDE apps? And after the dist-upgrade I found that I could not reinstall any of the KDE apps (or anything else) because I had broken packages. Synaptic said it fixed the broken packages, but it did not. I tried sudo apt-get update, but that failed also ('can't update because you have held packages.'). Eventually I got relief using aptitude at the command line. I used to be a fan of Debian package management because it seemed more foolproof than RPM. Lately I'm having second thoughts. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 15:18:15 -0700 From: Dick Steffens <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [PLUG] Resolved: Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 06/08/2018 12:32 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > Do not attempt to perform a release upgrade while your repository is in a > broken state. > > In fact, do not attempt to perform any sort of installation or upgrade > until you resolve the error with Google Earth. You will break your system > to the point where the only solution is to reinstall from scratch. > > I've seen this error countless times since 8.04. This error literally > predates Mint and end users have a tendency to break their installs over > some bad error reporting. Resolve the error for apt-get update before > attempting any further steps. I went through the process I followed earlier, trying to fix the no public key issue. That seems to have worked, but it brought up a different one: N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386' I searched for that error message and found out that it's a known problem, with a solution that has to be done regularly because the fix is to a file that is automatically generated, and the fix is overwritten. One solution is a cron job that "fixes" the file every day or something. But another would be to skip getting a Google Earth update for now. But, I don't find a place to do that in Software Updater. In Synaptic, Software & Updates, Other Software, I unchecked http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main I reran sudo apt-get update --fix-missing, and the error message was not there. So I reran Software Updater, and it finished successfully. I'm expecting to move over to 18.04 before too long, so I'm not all that concerned about a non-updated version of Google Earth, which I only use occasionally. Thanks to all for the various pointers, which when combined, solved my problem. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 08:20:00 -0700 From: "Mike C." <[email protected]> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic" <[email protected]> Subject: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs? Message-ID: <CAEtu1Uf62SfH=p-5-WgQGfjwN-JZg8_ewL=8zbwyj_dfbmu...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I'm doing some volunteer IT work for a small, local non-profit that has a few Free Geek Linux Mint computers connected to a Zyxel modem w. 10 mb/s CenturyLink internet connection. In the past they've had the typical problems of inappropriate content and piracy and have received the cease & desist letters from CenturyLink. The Zyxel modem doesn't have much in the way of features & functionality for content filtering and service or web site blocking. I have some basic knowledge/experience with proxy servers like BlueCoat and DD-WRT. I'm looking for suggestions on the best used devices that I can find at Free Geek or Goodwill and Open Source firmware that's not overly complicated to setup and maintain. Also, any suggestions for low resource anti-malware of content filtering software I can run on the Ubuntu Mint PCs. I've used ClamAV before but I never know if I have it setup correctly or if it's actually any good. Thank you, Mike ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 17:04:39 +0000 From: Bill Barry <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs? Message-ID: <CAAPspTZu3MggLRM1pQeaPdOQ0p_0tOioeWb=w6fypqha7ym...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:20 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm doing some volunteer IT work for a small, local non-profit that has a > few Free Geek Linux Mint computers connected to a Zyxel modem w. 10 mb/s > CenturyLink internet connection. > > In the past they've had the typical problems of inappropriate content and > piracy and have received the cease & desist letters from CenturyLink. > > The Zyxel modem doesn't have much in the way of features & functionality > for content filtering and service or web site blocking. > > Just using your current setup you can get some content filtering using DNS. Opendns provides a free service to do that. https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/ I don't know if that will help with the piracy usage though. Bill ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 17:04:39 +0000 From: Bill Barry <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs? Message-ID: <CAAPspTZu3MggLRM1pQeaPdOQ0p_0tOioeWb=w6fypqha7ym...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:20 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm doing some volunteer IT work for a small, local non-profit that has a > few Free Geek Linux Mint computers connected to a Zyxel modem w. 10 mb/s > CenturyLink internet connection. > > In the past they've had the typical problems of inappropriate content and > piracy and have received the cease & desist letters from CenturyLink. > > The Zyxel modem doesn't have much in the way of features & functionality > for content filtering and service or web site blocking. > > Just using your current setup you can get some content filtering using DNS. Opendns provides a free service to do that. https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/ I don't know if that will help with the piracy usage though. 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