Re: homewide sound system

[Matt Birkholz via PLUG-discuss]

On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 12:26 -0700, Ed via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> phone call?

In extremis.  Something that won't bother the NSA during everyday use?

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Re: homewide sound system

[Matt Birkholz via PLUG-discuss]

PulseAudio can pull/push audio to/from remote servers.  They had a
decent GUI for setting that up too.  This recent(?) post suggests it
can (could?) do auto discovery via Avahi.

https://blogs.gnome.org/ignatenko/2015/07/31/how-to-set-up-network-audio-server-based-on-pulseaudio-and-auto-discovered-via-avahi/

I almost had this working years ago; I might try again. :-}

I don't have any Apples or Windows but I imagine there are PulseAudio
clients for those desktops too.

But how do I connect two bluetooth headsets so that I can talk to my
wife across the table in a noisy restaurant?  There has got to be an
Android app for that.



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Re: SOLVED: Why I can't 'ssh -fCXY /usr/bin/gnome-terminal' ? Grrrrr....

[Matt Birkholz]

Hey good to know: --disable-factory.  I couldn't get gnome-terminal up
after setting LANG=C in ~/.profile.  Stderr would get something about a
factory timeout.  (Moral of this story: LANG=C.UTF-8!)

On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 10:08 -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> I found the solution:
> ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal 
>  --disable-factory' 
> 
> Works...
> Go figure...   :(
> ET 
> 
> 
> kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes: 
> 
> > The STUPID terminal is starting in the local box, so now the
> > question is:
> > why is it ignoring the DISPLAY variable?
> > Grrr...
> > ET  
> > 
> > kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes:  
> > 
> > > Hello all:
> > > This is so freaking odd that I'll explain it with a series of
> > > commands:   
> > > 
> > > There are 2 computers involved, linuxbox (Mint Tara) and wincrap
> > > (Win 7).  
> > > 
> > > In linuxbox I type:   
> > > 
> > > etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT:~$
> > > ssh -fCXY localhost xclock   
> > > 
> > > And I get my banana (xclock starts)   
> > > 
> > > Then   
> > > 
> > > etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT:~$
> > > ssh -fCXY localhost gnome-terminal   
> > > 
> > > and (AMAZINGLY) I get another terminal window.
> > > So far so good.
> > > Linux is B-O-R-I-N-G...   
> > > 
> > > Now we move to a cygwin shell in wincrap and I type:   
> > > 
> > > etroconis@ETROCONIS-DT:~ $
> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT xclock   
> > > 
> > > And (voila), predictably and reliably I again get my banana-
> > > clock,
> > > so FINAL ACT:   
> > > 
> > > etroconis@ETROCONIS-DT:~ $
> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT /usr/bin/gnome-
> > > terminal   
> > > 
> > > But nope...8(
> > > My terminal never starts in the WinCrap box!   
> > > 
> > > So, In summary:
> > > Please look at the 2 lines together (can you tell the
> > > difference?)
> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT xclock
> > > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -fCXY etroconis@ETROCONIS02-DT /usr/bin/gnome-
> > > terminal   
> > > 
> > > I know that things work locally.
> > > I know that clock works remotely.
> > > I know that gnome-terminal DOES NOT works remotely.
> > > Does anybody have any idea why?   :(
> > > Thanks for reading my rant...
> > > ET
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Re: portable streaming media hardware question

[Matt Birkholz]

On Sat, 2018-11-17 at 20:30 +, David Schwartz wrote:
> Why is that so damn difficult for people to grasp?

The red mist in your eyes and the roaring in your ears is
making it difficult for us to "understand".

> Rusty, tell your student to keep refining that project, and maybe help turn 
> it into a real product.

And put two wireless interfaces on it so it can wirelessly
connect to the Internet while being a hotspot, and call it
"Asus Travelair".  Oh, wait!

>  It’ll be the dominant means of accessing media in 10 years!

That was a quick 10 years.  I hope it is another suchlike 10
years before I can stick on a fuel cell that I "recharge" in
5 seconds from a can of butane.


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Re: portable streaming media hardware question

[Matt Birkholz]

Did those Pi3b+s need, like, Class 10 SDXC boot drives?
Do they produce full HD?
Do they read from the SD or an external USB hard drive?
I tried MATE on a Pi3b but VLC could not keep it moving
even when given fullscreen.


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Re: portable streaming media hardware question

[Matt Birkholz]

On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 21:34 +, David Schwartz wrote:
> Thanks, but I’m looking for HARDWARE suggestions, not advice on how to 
> reinvent my work habits.

OK, but you heard the part about how your phone, most likely, already
*is* this Asus Travelair you speak of (er, of which you speak)?  It's
a Travelair with a few gigabytes missing, hiding in an exceedingly
svelte and extraordinarily multi-talented bod?


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Re: duplexer

[Matt Birkholz]

On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 17:39 -0400, Michael wrote:
> I got a new printer(HP Envy Photo 7855). It asked me if I had a duplexer. I'm 
> sure I don't have one but what is it and how would I know if one is installed?

It's the dohickey that flips the pages so you can scan or print both
sides.
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Re: Shutdown and restart issues with Ubuntu 18.04

[Matt Birkholz]

On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 10:15 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> [...] hit escape at the Ubuntu splash screen [...] as shutdown progresses!

Good info.  Thanks!

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Re: Any way to keep my non-Google email contacts from Google?

[Matt Birkholz]

On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 19:25 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote:
> I use Google for the calendar, but make only occasional use of GMail.
> 
> I have this little game of seeing how much I can avoid handing over to Google.
> So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google.
> I avoided synching everything else, there was no need.

We are so down with that.  Skynet never got our calendar.  I figured
out owncloud before we got that desperate.

We're trying to rely on owncloud's web interface and its support for
mobile screens.  If its Mail application turns out to be a PITA, we'll
be looking at K-9 or some other encrypted email app (with, presumably,
a private email keys list).

I think we have secure access, via phone, to our private Contacts,
Calendars, Files, and Mail.  Even Text and Phone is secure and private
among the brethren using LinPhone (and kamailio).

> That was in the not-evil days: now it seems to be sync all or nothing.

I sync Google to my "Normals" contact list so I can text and phone
normal people like a normal person should (in plain view of all). 
Normal people don't care if they are tracked because they have nothing
to hide. 

I think it hygienic to keep a high wall between your facade of normalcy
and the mysteries of your cloister.  Using separate apps is just
another brick in the wall.

> Q: If I’m using a different mail client for non-Google email, will a sync
>  with Google slurp up all my contacts anyway?

That would depend on the mail client.  The owncloud Mail application
("just" a web 2.0 page) should not be able to read, much less write to,
the phone's contacts.  Android apps should promise to backup new
contacts somewhere else.

> I’m not about to replace my OS, but just curious:
>   Are there versions of Android that don’t feed the Beast?

I don't know how deep your paranoia runs but I expect Google will show
you what it knows about you, so at least you can check your hygiene.

Do you have a cloud you trust with which to sync?  (That was mostly the
point of my earlier message: "Decentralize the Internet?")

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Re: Debian 9 vs Ubuntu 18

[Matt Birkholz]

I find myself proselytizing.  (Skynet comes!)  So if friends and family
see something at my house they like I reflexively tell them they can
have a similar setup for free(dom).  I want them seeing Ubuntu, maybe
Mint, because I can't imagine them using anything easier on the non-
programmer.  And I use them myself; familiarity with Ubuntu quirks
makes me look less like a Linux Dork who, like a fan boy, said it would
be "easy".

So to add to Steve's list of questions: What would you want your granny
to use?
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Decentralize the Internet?

[Matt Birkholz]

I hear tell there is talk of decentralizing the Internet, maybe evenbreaking up 
the NSA/Google/Facebook duopoly fnord.  I am skeptical.It was a journalist, and 
I had not heard anything like it from acredible source (except maybe the Free 
Software Foundation, butthey're way fringe).  MOST suspect: the efforts were 
credited to thesame Vile Offspring that just yesterday replaced the verb 
"search"with a new verb: "Google™".
As a monk I am proud of my people's tradition of running away, so I amnaturally 
interested in decentralizing the ever-lov'n blank out of theInternet.  The more 
"dark" corners there are, the safer I will feel.
Back before government-mandated-everything Americans banded togetherin 
fraternal organizations that provided health/life insurance forfamilies, not 
desks.  They also provided nosy brothers whom you wererarely tempted to cheat.  
Again, as a monk, these kinds ofinstitutions seem natural, a necessary evil, 
like cooking.  And theyseem a proper size for the autonomous entities of a 
decentralizedInternet.
I'm talking about a local organization of real people, e.g. theEscanaba Lions 
Club[1], not a pit of lobbyists like The HumaneSociety of the United States 
(not to be confused with the manyhard-working local humane societies, despite 
The Humane Society's[sic]best efforts).
I have time to spend fanning the sputtering flames of demokrasy inAmerika 
before I go, so I'm thinking about offering free technicalsupport to clubs that 
use a standard, KISS setup to offer theirmembership federated services *just* 
like GMail, Skype, One Drive,and Facebook.
These would be icing for an existing cake of common interests, localconcerns, 
maybe even group health insurance.  And if there is a clubhouse, it would be 
able to offer any member living within maybe 20miles a volunteer who will climb 
up on their roof with a pringle canand get them cheap, high-speed Internet 
without the whole last-milecluster-mumble.
And discuss...
[1] - If you have not seen _Escanaba in da Moonlight_[2], you messed 
upsomewhere.
[2] - I was shocked (*not*) to see that _Escanaba in da Moonlight_ and_Monty 
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Re: 10,000 jobs could be lost to robots says Citi

[Matt Birkholz]

On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 16:17 -0700, Eric Oyen wrote:
> Ah yes,  technical humor!

I thought it was "meta humor", but I'll consider it a success.  Thanks!

> Anyway, here’s a different take on jobs, robots and the rest of us.
> 
> Robots are always going to need periodic updating, maintenance and upgrades. 
> [...]

And shares in the companies that will make these outrageous profits can
be bought by anyone (but do wait for the stock bubble to pop).

How's this for a "take" on jobs:

   Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle
   accident and the collapse of civilization.
   - G. Bernard Shaw

>  So, those of us who are technically competent will still end up with jobs 
> [...]

I know more physicists and engineers who went on to law, high-finance,
biotech (in rapid succession in one case), and beer- and wine-
making (two individual cases) than those who stayed where they were.

>  You will also have the hobbyist tinkerer (like me) who will be[...]

...who will be (speaking collectively) the locus of the next disruptive
technology and, compounded, the singularity.  Pick your approach vector
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Re: 10,000 jobs could be lost to robots says Citi

[Matt Birkholz]

On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 13:36 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> It might be a good idea for you, the Original Poster, to declare this
> thread dead,  before it REALLY gets out of hand.

But what's a kill-thread command for then?  The discussion about
whether we should be discussing this is icing on the cake.

And I like to have cray-cray out in the open (where my wife can get a
clear shot).

Video shot, of course, for the courtroom ja? ;-)

-Puck

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Re: Let's Encrypt certificates

[Matt Birkholz]

On Fri, 2018-04-13 at 14:47 -0700, Nathan O'Brennan wrote:
> On 2018-04-12 11:27, Matt Birkholz wrote:
> > Hi Nathan,
> > 
> > Did you get any help with this, or figure it out yourself by now?
> 
> No, to be honest I haven't seen a single response, but I have also not 
> seen any email come in since I sent it, so I kind of thought maybe my 
> certificate was messed up somehow else.

I think it is just hard to answer you without googling first, which
invites distraction.

> I ended up having my phone accept the certificate [...]

I have the same problem: insufficient curiosity to uninstall the
permanent exceptions (or did you actually turn validation OFF?).  But
maybe another lurker will be forewarned and win AND tell us all about
it.

> > > [...]
> > > Firefox works fine on webmail.
> > > Chrome works fine on webmail.
> > > Postfix, Apache, and Dovecot all operate correctly without warnings.
> > > 
> > > Bluemail, Thunderbird, and Kmail all fail to connect because the
> > > certificate cannot be verified.
> > 
> > You did not attach the intermediate certificates?

I suggested missing intermediates because some clients may be willing
to pursue "additional downloads" to validate a cert, while others may
balk at incomplete chains.

I had not included Gandi's with my Gandi cert and then went down the
garden path of trying to add the intermediates as roots.  It was not
until I took SSLLabs quality test that I twigged to the importance of
including the necessary intermediate certs.  (Kudos on the SSL Labs
suggestion, Stephen.)  Now the Gandi cert (complete chain) works as
expected, without exceptional handling, in Firefox 59 and (I hope)
Everywhere.

I pursued this minion of Chaos a bit further this morning, irritated
that I cannot trust my own self-signed cert, even though I had
installed it in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ and ran `sudo update-
ca-certificates` AND saw that a key was added (to /etc/ssl/certs/ I
guess).

Yet I only got Firefox 59 to shut the bleep up after explicitly
importing my (Easy-RSA CA) cert in Preferences > Privacy & Security >
View Certificates... > Authorities > Import...  AND I had to create the
server cert with the INexact, all-too-Common-Name core.birchwood-
abbey.net (NOT the absolute core.birchwood-abbey.net.) AND I had to use
the same name in my CA's DB (i.e. on the ./build-key-server
commandline).

Kudos to anyone who can tell me how Firefox knew I had used the name
core25 on the commandline (my twenty-sixth attempt [a tiny
exaggeration]), why I do not see "core25" anywhere in `openssl x509
-text`, and especially how to get the Vile Offspring to document
anything.

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Re: Let's Encrypt certificates

[Matt Birkholz]

Hi Nathan,

Did you get any help with this, or figure it out yourself by now?

I have been doing similar things on a CoxBusiness static IP for years,
so maybe I can help.  (Also Mike's latest silliness makes me wish for
more erudite discussions on PLUG.  Smart questions going unanswered
only makes it worse? :-)

I included a couple quick "reactions" to your email (below) but maybe
this is moot now, a week on.

-Matt

On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 20:29 -0700, Nathan O'Brennan wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I use Let's Encrypt on my web server, and I use the same certificate for 
> my postfix and dovecot services. Today I realized that my phone has not 
> alerted me to new messages. I logged into my webmail via Firefix (I 
> don't usually log into webmail until my phone says I have mail) and sure 
> enough, I had quite a bit of mail, so I opened my BlueMail app and it 
> will not connect because my certificate cannot be verified.
> 
> Firefox works fine on webmail.
> Chrome works fine on webmail.
> Postfix, Apache, and Dovecot all operate correctly without warnings.
> 
> Bluemail, Thunderbird, and Kmail all fail to connect because the 
> certificate cannot be verified.

You did not attach the intermediate certificates?

> I had to accept the certificate to use it on my phone. Has Let's Encrypt 
> changed something? Or what? I don't get any errors on my server, dovecot 
> reports a username of <> during the initial handshake, which I think is 
> normal, then reports an error only when my phone attempts to connect 
> which looks like:
> 
> 
> Apr 05 20:26:23 codezilla.xyz dovecot[1699]: imap-login: Disconnected 
> (no auth attempts in 3 secs): user=<>, rip=70.xxx.aaa.162, 
> lip=138.197.192.135, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: 
> error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate 
> unknown: SSL alert number 46, session=
> 
> Best I can tell this is a failure on my server's attempt to verify my 
> phone's certificate?

Your phone has an IMAP client certificate?  I missed that part.

The error message actually looks like mine when certificates do not
validate and clients do not attempt to log in.

> Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: HTML5 as JS

[Matt Birkholz]

Thanks, Herminio, for

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/javascript-trap.ja-en.html

in which I was surprised to read the following.

It is theoretically possible to program in HTML and CSS, but in
practice this capability is limited and inconvenient; merely to
make it do something is an impressive hack.

So I echo der.hans and ask again: HTML5 as JS?  Is this a thing now?!

I do NOT ask "Can we expect w3.org to keep these things off us?"
because I don't want to sound like a serf.  I dare ask "Can we pepper
our banks and grocery stores with requests that appear to come from
browsers that do not support HTML5 nor JS?" and I ask this because I
expect the free market to listen like no leet standards body flogging
a dead mandate.

[Brought to you by Honest To Goodness text/plain.]

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Re: Scriptsheets

[Matt Birkholz]

On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 07:31 +, trent shipley wrote:
> > > My understanding is that's a complete programming paradigm.
> > 
> > Fun!  Can you do it with coconuts?
> 
> If you have a very fault tolerant Babbage class computer, you can
> probably do it with coconuts.

Yeah, physical exertion on top of these excruciating mental gymnastics.
Righteous, Brother! :-)

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Re: Scriptsheets

[Matt Birkholz]

On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 17:51 +, trent shipley wrote:
> Right, it's not scripting using a classic programming environment,
> like VBA, the BASIC that comes with LibreOffice, or  Python. 
> 
> The idea is that you extend the spreadsheet idiom to program the
> spreadsheet from a sheet or virtual workbook in the spreadsheet
> without leaving the spreadsheet to work in a classical imperative
> programming environment like VBA or Python.
> 
> 
>   |A               | B              | C              | 
> 1|PARAMETERS(B1,C1)||| 
> 2|                 |                |                |
> 3|RETURN(B1*C1)    |                |                |
> FUNCTION SHEET("MY_FUNCTION")

That is very reminiscent of Emacs' Org-mode, which has plain text
spreadsheets like the above.  With a key stroke or three a "source code
block", a script written in any of a variety of languages, can be fed
such tables and the results captured in the document as text, table,
plot...

There is a cool org-mode document demonstrating genetic drift using R
plots and a little LaTeX for an equation.  Here it is rendered for the
web.

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison/software/org-babel/drift.org.html

People use org-mode for everything from literate programming to
reproducible research to organizing their lives (calendars and task
lists).

http://orgmode.org/

> You have data, it's a spreadsheet.
> The moral equivalent of sequence is referencing another cell,
> including one that contains a function.
> You have selection with the IF() function.

You speak of morality and then call IF a function.  Blasphemer!

> With the addition of just two keywords, PARAMETERS and RETURN you
> have real functions.

What's a "key word"??

> You have looping with functions calling themselves (recursion), and
> possibly circular references.
> 
> My understanding is that's a complete programming paradigm.

Fun!  Can you do it with coconuts?

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Re: new external drive

[Matt Birkholz]

> From: Bob Holtzman 
> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:06:29 -0700
> 
> Take your HTML and.
> 
> My apologies to anyone I've offended with that.

It's the ones you've frightened that you should worry about. ;-)

I didn't even see the HTML.  What damaged email reader are you
abusing? :-) :-)
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Re: ... and fingerprint authentication has problems too

[Matt Birkholz]

> From: Stephen Partington 
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 06:01:08 -0700
> 
> Point being. Passphrase should be combined with biometric.

How about one big pronounceable?  I've found even large ones (16
letters) surprisingly easy to remember, so I use several.  I get them
from gpw(1).  Unfortunately the manpage does not say how many bits of
entropy are in each trigraph.

Aren't They getting search warrants before using fake fingertips?
They will kick in your door and kill your dog if they can get a
warrant.  Using a fake fingertip seems downright civil compared to
THAT.
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Re: Recommended laserjet repair.

[Matt Birkholz]

> From: Mark Phillips 
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:03:55 -0700
> 
> When my printer has an issue I do the following -
> 
> 1. Google a repair video [...]
> 
> 2. Donate the printer [...]
> 
> Good luck!

Thanks.  I took it apart (as much as intended for regular servicing)
and cleaned up the black toner (yes, with a vacuum!), gambled $50 on a
new black developer unit, and am getting clean prints again.  I hope I
have not jinxed it, boasting here (thumbing my nose at Chaos!) but I
hope for another 5 years.  Sorry: no video.

A good idea though -- the repair videos.  Thanks.

Throw away $400 every 2 years?  Not in this house.

Happy Procrastination Monday Morning, everyone!
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Recommended laserjet repair.

[Matt Birkholz]

Anyone care to recommend a (Lexmark) laserjet repair shop?  Does
anyone DO that anymore?  How much would you spend to repair a $540
(now $400!) 5 year old color laserjet?

Y'all are laughing, aren't you?  I took a 10 year old flat screen to
the Geek Squad recently.  It did not exist in their database(?).  I
think THEY were laughing as I dragged it back out of the store.
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procmail question

[Matt Birkholz]

 From: Sean Roe sean...@gmail.com
 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:34:11 -0700
 
 Hi All,
 
 Im trying to dig up some ancient procmail knowledge and I cant seem
 to find it.  All I want to do is take a email look at the subject
 line extract out a variable and use that variable to send the email
 to an file based on that name to be processed later;

Did you see the example in the procmailex manpage that uses \/ and
MATCH?  Its description:

Now follows an example for a very simple fileserver accessible by
mail.  For more demanding applications, I suggest you take a look
at SmartList (available from the same place as the procmail
distribution).  As listed, this fileserver sends back at most one
file per request, it ignores the body of incoming mails, the
Subject: line has to look like Subject: send file
the_file_you_want (the blanks are significant),

In your case, I think you want EGR=|formail... for starters.
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primewire blocked

[Matt Birkholz]

 From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com
 Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 07:01:40 -0700
 
 I've spent a couple of days now on primewire's support site with no luck. I
 only got one bit of advice (custom domain: https//primewire.unblocked.pw) but
 that didn't work. Does anyone here know how to get around this?

So just out of curiosity I yahooed primewire and clicked through to
their site.  I'm not blocked, but I wish I were.  When I tried to back
out, I got an extra full page ad, like they slammed the door on my
ass.  Now my notebook is burning hot and I have to reboot Firefox.

What the F is primewire and do I now have to take a precautionary shower?
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commands

[Matt Birkholz]

 From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com
 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:46:23 -0700
 
 I was thinking, I could type in 'sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get
 upgrade' but what would be a more efficient way?
 
 [...]
 
 sudo apt-get {update, upgrade}
 E: Invalid operation {update,
 
 This is interesting: when I typed in 'sudo {apt-get {update; upgrade}}' it
 didn't give me an error for '{update'
 
 So does anyone know what I'm talking about and how to do it?

Brace expansion is performed on a command.  A semicolon separates
commands.  Your command line

sudo {apt-get {update; upgrade}}

is interpreted as two commands:

sudo {apt-get {update
upgrade}}

So sudo complains about a strange command name {apt-get, the
argument {update passes without comment, and the shell complains
about the command name upgrade}}.

You cannot stick an unescaped semicolon inside braces.

Most efficient?  Stick this in ~/.bashrc

alias do-it='sudo sh -c apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'

so you can say just

do-it

?
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Re: Save me from MythTV.

[Matt Birkholz]

 From: Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com
 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:27:55 -0700
 
 [...]
 The options you are looking for are still in there, they just moved them 
 to be filters, which they were anyway.  To get to them, [arcane incantation].

Well hidden!  Not so sure about the rationale, as it seems couched in
some esoteric tongue.

Given the example of Tivo, THIS is how Myth schedules?  They lost me.

 I would highly recommend that you break down and just pay [...]

Judge me by my size will you?

 It's well worth the money [...]

Thanks for the pointer.  I am subscribing right now.  I paid more than
that for the LxMsuite.com service 90 years (9 years) ago, but it was
eventually abused to death.  Here's hoping the headaches of running
schedulesdirect.com are well compensated.

   It also lets you come up with crazy customized scheduling rules
 like record all scifi movies made between 1950 and 1975 that are 2
 stars or less (ie, record B movies).

I'd get my knuckles rapped if I did anything like that, but I'll fight
for your right to ingest... even THAT.
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Re: Save me from MythTV.

[Matt Birkholz]

 From: Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.com
 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:46:58 -0700
 
 I have been really enjoying plex which is an evolution of xbmc. It has been
 more stable and offered all the options and features i have been wanting.

It does not look like PLEX nor XBMC schedules and performs recordings.
Is there a plugin or sump'n?  Can it handle an HDHomerun?  Neither is
on schedulesdirect.com's list of approved apps, but maybe you were
just being random...
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vpn connection

[Matt Birkholz]

 From: Dennis McClellan pade...@cox.net
 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:53:34 -0800
 
 I am trying to install a pptpsetup to use a vpn connection.
 On the command line I've done this:
 
 dad@dad-Satellite-L675D:~$ locate pptpsetup
 /usr/sbin/pptpsetup
 /usr/share/man/man8/pptpsetup.8.gz

Ya, you got it.  Locate located two files.

 dad@dad-Satellite-L675D:~$ sudo apt-get install /usr/sbin/pptpsetup
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree   
 Reading state information... Done
 E: Unable to locate package /usr/sbin

Apt-get takes a package name, the name of a bundle of many files, not
a file name.  Thus the E (error) Unable to locate package...

 dad@dad-Satellite-L675D:~$ sudo apt-get install 
 /usr/share/man/man8/pptpsetup.8.gz
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree   
 Reading state information... Done
 E: Unable to locate package /usr/share/man/man8

You get an A for persistence.

 dad@dad-Satellite-L675D:~$ sudo apt-get install pptpsetup.8.gz
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree   
 Reading state information... Done
 E: Unable to locate package pptpsetup.8.gz
 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'pptpsetup.8.gz'

A+

 dad@dad-Satellite-L675D:~$
 
 I'm sure I;m doing something wrong, but I don't know what.
 Any ideas? 

You may find the commandline frustrating.  You probably want to read this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VPN
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