Re: [Discuss] Recent discussions and our list archives

a general warning. On a techno-humour bent, the emails weren't PGP signed and we all know how easy it is to forge emails headers, plausible deniability, etc. Good luck explaining that to a judge and jury... Bill Bogstad (I don't even have a PGP key so I c

Re: [Discuss] Cron fail lesson of the day

e up and go to bed. And find the output in your email the next morning. You live in the Eastern timezone and the server lives in the Pacific timezone. Instead of 2 minutes in the future, you were requesting 3 hours and 2 minutes. It's been too long since I did remote system administratio

Re: [Discuss] Reliable external HD enclosure for Linux?

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 1:45 AM Marco Milano wrote: > > > > On 8/29/19 9:21 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > >> > >> Thanks, > > > > What makes you sure it's the enclosure and not the drive. As long as I > > can remember, Seagate drives had the reputation of unreliability. > > That may have been the

Re: [Discuss] full disk backups

You really want to know if your backup drive is failing... Good Luck, Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] couple of cheap (free?) Asterisk telephony cards

be useful and they were going to end up in the trash if I didn't take them. I have no idea if they work so buyer/taker beware. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30

since eliminated both use cases, but it can work for you. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] WSL 2

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 9:43 PM Bill Bogstad wrote: > > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:40 PM Rich Pieri wrote: > >... > > WSL 2 will ship with a fully GPL compliant (including patches), > > reasonably current Linux kernel running in a lightweight virtual > > mac

Re: [Discuss] WSL 2

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:30 PM Rich Pieri wrote: > > On Mon, 6 May 2019 21:50:22 -0400 > Bill Bogstad wrote: > > > It looks like both the current emulated environment as well as full > > Linux kernel will be usable on the same system. > > Yup. Which, amusingly enou

Re: [Discuss] WSL 2

ast some Linux native init)). [I know you don't know the answers, but that article is pretty vague...] Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] WSL 2

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 9:43 PM Bill Bogstad wrote: > > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:40 PM Rich Pieri wrote: > >... > > WSL 2 will ship with a fully GPL compliant (including patches), > > reasonably current Linux kernel running in a lightweight virtual > > mac

Re: [Discuss] ssh_dispatch_run_fatal error with FIOS router?

fers and certain bit patterns in certain buffers couldn't be successfully written and then read. If have the ability to set up an encrypted/compressed VPN from your home to the outside world, you might try doing your copies over that link. You might get lucky and not hit whatever is causing yo

Re: [Discuss] Feedspot and other RSS Readers

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 7:24 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Bill Bogstad: > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:53 AM Nancy Allison > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, all. > > > > > > What do you use to aggregate the things you read? I've stumbled

Re: [Discuss] Feedspot and other RSS Readers

feed aggregator. At the moment, I use the "feedbro" extension for Firefox. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Linux has 100% of Market Share.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:59 AM Marco Milano wrote: > > > > On 06/09/2018 12:11 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 11:11 AM Bill Ricker wrote: > >> > >> the Top500 statistics include Historical charts. You can see how recently > &g

Re: [Discuss] Linux has 100% of Market Share.

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 11:11 AM Bill Ricker wrote: > > the Top500 statistics include Historical charts. You can see how recently the > last 2 AIX systems were pushed out of Top500, how "mixed OS" had a brief > surge early last decade, etc. > > https://www.top500.org/statistics/overtime/

[Discuss] Linux has 100% of Market Share.

run Linux. https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/ I knew that Linux was big in supercomputing clusters, but I didn't realize that it now owned that market. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] Fwd: [Ietf-hub-boston] Meeting SOON: June 12 5-7pm at Volta Networks (Central Square)

I know there are some Linux/Unix users/admins who also do networking and might be interested in this upcoming IETF-Boston meeting. Unfortunately, I will be out of town; but hopefully other BLU members will be able to get something out of this meeting. Bill Bogstad -- Forwarded message

Re: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files (Crossover 17)

er 17 and test out their claims. If you do, please post back here about your results as some people I know might want to do this, but I don't have a copy of Office 2016 to use for testing purposes. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org ht

Re: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

nly doable. Just having a Linux person available by phone is probably all you would need. Bill Bogstad > > --Nancy > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrot

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

it seem like "code" is routinely violated for low voltage cable installs. I expect that residential installs are even worse. Something to consider I suppose. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

ntities have made CM an extra cost addon. The ones managed by non-commercial entities seem uninterested in picking a single CM and just going with it. Instead they make all of them available, but don't setup any of them. Bill Bogstad P.S. If I'm wrong about the state of CMs or Linu

Re: [Discuss] Crashplan is discontinued

ce was on 0 length files. Zero length files are, of course, all perfect duplicates of each other... :-) Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

Do you actually put the entire subtree under your home directory into Git? My home directory has lots of pictures, movies, ISOs, etc. in there. Where do you put that kind of thing? Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Mike Small wrote: > wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes: > >> I have a cron job which commits my home directory into a Git repository >> every minute. Surprisingly, this puts no noticeable load on the >> computer. > > How do you handle

[Discuss] open RFP/business idea for open source security business

clear, I don't have the combined skills/drive to want to work on this. I'm hoping that someone else will take it up. I would, of course, enjoy hearing about any efforts to make it happen. Thanks, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com === If the US, Russian, Chinese, North Korean governments

Re: [Discuss] Eclipses Re: Great talks last night, however...

rgy-company-wants-to-build-flow-batteries-in-old-natural-gas-caverns/ talks about a commercial project to do just that in Germany as well as other projects elsewhere. Without any pricing info, it is difficult to say if this is viable, but it seems like a number of groups think that it might be.

Re: [Discuss] Eclipses Re: Great talks last night, however...

rgument that many people are starting to make. Are they wrong? If they aren't wrong, is there some reason other than economics why switching from fossil fuels to solar + batteries would be a bad idea. I suspect you have some other energy solution in mind then the ones that have been

Re: [Discuss] Great talks last night, however...

tunately, I could see having 5V, 12V, 24V, and 48V DC in one installation. Am I wrong about this? Are there well known conventions for idiot proof use of these connectors? Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] Great talks last night, however...

://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/ Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] Is there a supported browser for Linux that still runs Java applets? (also Flash)

eb site so this could be a real problem for their kid/teen oriented user base. Thoughts/solutions? Thanks, Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] etckeeper (tool to store /etc/ in version control)

cular class of configuration file that comes to mind for me. You might have others. Still for minimal effort etckeeper provides me with a lot of peace of mine. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] deadmanish login?

word selection is based on a random process. Schneier is correct that if a human selects (either you personally or by quoting from another source then you lose entropy. If you are just writing down a 40 bit random number by encoding it into words, there is no problem (modulo offline vs. online

Re: [Discuss] deadmanish login?

ularly reuse passwords between different systems. Specifically, systems/web sites in which I have no significant stake. I really don't care if someone who manages to crack the InfoWorld web site can then read the NY Times using the same credentials. Each financial and email account on the oth

Re: [Discuss] disappearing memory

ure how that would affect meminfo output and it would probably depend on whether your BIOS grabbed the memory or the Linux kernel/X server did. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Weird new non-empty Dell disk

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > Lol you should have made a copy and posted it somewhere ;) I guess it wasn't obvious in my note, but I haven't overwritten the disk yet. As for posting it, I think I'm okay against claims of

[Discuss] Weird new non-empty Dell disk

Summary: Dell shipped me a no-OS server with a pile of factory diagnostics software "hidden" on the disk. Was this a mistake at the factory? Has anybody had something like this happen before? Any curiosity about what a top 10 ODM (Wistron) uses for testing/configuration? Other thoug

Re: [Discuss] EOMA68 Computer

even that use. I booted it up yesterday to get my "free" Windows 10 license and the touchpad is working again. I'm glad that I'm not depending on it for my day to day computing. Bill Bogstad > > -- > Rich P. > ___ > Discu

Re: [Discuss] Whence distributed operating systems?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/28/2016 8:30 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: >> The fact >> that this was done via a fibre data bus vs. a faster local bus would >> seem to me to be an implementation detail. It still sound

Re: [Discuss] Whence distributed operating systems?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/28/2016 4:28 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: >> So memory was shared? between the QBBs? This sounds more like a NUMA >> architecture environment. What would you say are the differences >&

Re: [Discuss] Whence distributed operating systems?

> QBB's worth of RAM and not hit swap. It could have threads running on > any or all of the QBBs without having to be programmed specifically for > it. Galaxy was full SSI. So memory was shared? between the QBBs? This sounds more like a NUMA architecture e

Re: [Discuss] I need some dual-booting advice

, but my memory is that it was quite slow. This was probably 3 or 4 years ago and it is likely that things have changed (improved?) since then. I don't recall if there was a way to have all USB devices passed through to a VM so this may or may not satisfy your use case. Bill Bogstad

Re: [Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

h GPLed software. For me at least, it seems likely that Linksys continues to be happy to ship products using GPLed software when it suits their business interests. And that remains true as of today. I'm not surprised by this and don't understand why anyone would think anything different. B

Re: [Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

al IP addresses. My guess is this will easily cost more than $100 a month. Good Luck, Bill Bogstad > > > Thanks, > > -kb, the Kent who wishes Google Fiber would come to town, or our > aren't-I-so-terribly-hip Mayor Curtatone would find us some good bits. > __

Re: [Discuss] Experiences virtualizing: Linux hosted in Windows vs Windows hosted in Linux

nd, the only way to know for sure is to try it. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Dropping obsolete commands (Linux Pocket Guide) (dump/restore)

is a directory the whole subtree will not be copied. The system in question has /, /var, and /home all on one partition and I'm going to split them up in the new configuration so this will be helpful. /home is going to stay on the HD while / is moving to the SSD. Not sure about /var yet. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/7/2015 5:08 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: >> >> With the exception of Apple and their AirPort products, I'm not aware >> of any "manufacturer" of products of this type who does

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/6/2015 10:40 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: >> >> Given that the majority of cheap home routers do ship with GPL'ed >> software (i.e. the Linux kernel), I am having a real problem >> un

Re: [Discuss] Debian adds another systemd dependency, Busybox drops it

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Mike Small <sma...@sdf.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:47:30PM -0500, Bill Bogstad wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Tangentially, we've had genuinely unprivil

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED

GPL that as far as I know have no connection to the FSF at all. But maybe you meant more generically that they could be sued by whoever happened to own the copyright. But again that hasn't precluded them from using the Linux kernel. Nor has it stopped manufacturers of Android smartphones. B

Re: [Discuss] Debian adds another systemd dependency, Busybox drops it

all the graphics acceleration features in modern graphics cards. Those X servers have in my experience usually required running them as root. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED

ven all information required to updated the firmware. So WiFi router, cell phones, TVs, streaming media devices, etc. if they contain GPLv3 covered source code must provide installation instructions/keys. Of course, the Linux kernel is under GPLv2 which doe

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/5/2015 3:20 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: >> >> So what does it mean when the FCC's own documents suggest otherwise? >> For example, the document at: > > > What it means

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

tate. The appropriate way to backup/snapshot/whatever a system depends on what you care about and exactly how your apps/filesystems/os do things, etc. In the old days, people would run dump on filesystems which were actively being modified and they got away with it (most of th

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <b...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogs...@pobox.com] >> >> > 2- Use a snapshotting filesystem like btrfs or zfs in the host, so the >> > host can >> replicate the guest stora

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

really exist. Unless you are willing to have backup time windows where you shut everything down, you are going to have to really dig into the details of your apps/databases to figure out how to do consistent backups. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

willing to shutdown your guest and then take the snapshot it would work and downtime of the guest OS would be minimal. Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you are suggesting. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

call that an archival system. While it is true that most backup systems allow you to recover deleted/old version of files, it's not clear that is a required part of a backup system in the strictest sense. Still it comes in handy and has been a typical feature of most backups systems so being aware of when

[Discuss] possible use case for hacked WiFi accessible SD cards/(Federico's talk on July 15th)

devices, you are going to have higher power requirements; but it still might be manageable... Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes

of the faster bus speeds. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] stumped: machine won't boot

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Laura Conrad su...@laymusic.org wrote: Bill == Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes: Bill On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Laura Conrad su...@laymusic.org Bill wrote: Bill My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu

Re: [Discuss] stumped: machine won't boot

message? Can't find an OS type messages could even be from the BIOS which might mean that your boot block is corrupted or your boot partition isn't marked bootable. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] SSD Drives

file, the software told me if wasn't needed, so must be running the latest firmware. hdparm -I /dev/sd gives me firmware revision along with a bunch of other stuff for hard drives. Can't recall if I've used it with SSDs, but I suspect SATA based SSDs should respond. Bill Bogstad

Re: [Discuss] memory management

issue. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] memory management

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/21/2015 9:18 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: I use multiple Firefox user profiles instead. Some of them allow cookies/javascript and others do not. This probably doesn't help memory usage, but it does allow some

Re: [Discuss] About to rip out systemd and start over

that these kinds of problems are more likely to show up the farther away you get from default configs/software installs. Or the more upgrades that have been done since the initial install. Hints on what it take to break systemd would be a service to everyone. Thanks, Bill Bogstad

Re: [Discuss] interesting discussion on silverlight

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/3/2015 4:52 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: GIF or it didn't happen. By which I mean, show me the contract where that is one of the stipulations. NDA Then it didn't happen. It must be nice to live

Re: [Discuss] OSX Mavericks root exploit, and Safari

a what's known as a nil to the OS X mechanism that performs the elevation authorization. A nil is a zero-like value in the Objective C programming language that represents a non-existent object. Sounds like your info might be out of date. Bill Bogstad

Re: [Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/13/2015 7:36 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: Exactly and why should Calculus be what everyone takes after their HS Algebra sequence? Algebra teaches you one way to approach solving problems. Calculus immediately

Re: [Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?

but not for science. A rare few indeed. Which would now be a mistake. You basically can't do science any more without probability and statistics. But you can do plenty of science without Calculus. And you can at least get a basic understanding of both without Calculus. Bill Bogstad

Re: [Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?

Probability that is normally emphasized in Math departments. I think college algebra (at least as I experienced it) should only be used if you need a weed out class. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?

Ph.D from MIT and frequently teaches that course. She definitely teaches it as a proper university course. The CS department needs its majors to understand that stuff and how to do proofs. So they have a strong incentive to make sure that it is done right. Bill Bogstad

Re: [Discuss] pulse files in /tmp on RHEL 6 - followup

for authorization/authentication and I suspect that there are other surprises waiting there. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

number of your users will use something that is probably less than 6 characters long. Of course, many of those would fall to a dictionary attack as well. And the same users are going to use Four score if you require longer passwords, so you lose anyway. Bill Bogstad

Re: [Discuss] os x = poop?

software they have real problems with free software in the FSF sense. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Are there any no-cost vm's still out there?

this. For whatever reason, although stable for me; VB has never worked for me for more intensive graphics. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

different computing styles. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

of any other free software (or culture i.e. wikipedia) which operates under these conditions. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

/export plugins. Perhaps I'm missing something? Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Who sells the least expensive SSL certs right now?

decrypting it once they get the private key either. What am I missing here? Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Please point me to the thread about open-source software project management tools

. Searching my personal BLU archive, the newest thing that I find is from Dec. 2008. No idea if this is what you are remembering. Here is a link to the public archive: http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-December/031563.html Good Luck, Bill Bogstad

Re: [Discuss] root CA bloat

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/22/2014 4:15 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: I already mentioned part of this in my first note. They would have to do it by changing the nameserver entries for the microsoft.com domain at the .com DNS servers which

Re: [Discuss] root CA bloat

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/23/2014 3:26 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: If they did something that Microsoft hadn't requested then I'm pretty sure somebody would both notice AND care. This is all in the context of attacking the security

Re: [Discuss] root CA bloat

aren't) then things get harder again. To be clear, I'm not saying that there aren't problems here. I'm just saying that whois data isn't the game over that you seem to be implying. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] root CA bloat

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/22/2014 5:33 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: You are conflating DNS and Certificate Authorities. When I look at the certificate used for www.microsoft.com, it appears to be signed by Symantec via Verisign. In any

Re: [Discuss] Password app

suppose you could also modify the name of the site as well. Instead of comcast.com use myf***ingisp as the site name. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Server/laptop full-disk encryption

to me. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Server/laptop full-disk encryption

to spend that time (as insurance) against future loss isn't obvious to me. It seems like whenever people start talking about computer security, there is a tendency to shoot for the maximum theoretically possible. We don't do that when it comes to our cars or homes, but it does with computers. Bill

Re: [Discuss] CipherShed: TrueCrypt fork

on the host. Because you trust the firmware provided by the disk drive manufacturer? You clearly aren't wearing your tin foil hat today. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] CipherShed: TrueCrypt fork

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/1/2014 11:19 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: Because you trust the firmware provided by the disk drive manufacturer? You clearly aren't wearing your tin foil hat today. ... There is a clever SED attack: hotplug

Re: [Discuss] SysVinit vs. systemd

think the skills to do this are no longer being developed among new people. Hopefully, I'll be wrong and it won't matter when all the old timers are gone. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] selecting a subnet

understands that what he's asking for is insane. And if this doesn't work, write done exactly what you told him/her and get him to sign a copy. It's amazing how having to actually sign something tends to get a manager's attention. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Wireless devices, 2 Wireless Routers, local network. DD-WRT

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/27/2014 3:06 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: Even better you could just connect two of the LAN ports togther (either with a crossover cable or if auto-MIDX is supported on either router that might work as well. Um

Re: [Discuss] Wireless devices, 2 Wireless Routers, local network. DD-WRT

DD-WRT so I can't comment on that. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Wireless devices, 2 Wireless Routers, local network. DD-WRT

to waste wireless bandwidth if wired is available. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] lots of OLD Sparc UltraSparc equipment available

) Misc. Sun mice/keyboards/video cables/etc. I would like to get rid of all of them at one time if possible. Available in Cambridge. Bill Bogstad P.S. They are probably best for parts rather then as whole systems. Chances are that if you have any interest in them at all, it is to keep your

Re: [Discuss] vnc

. A mythtv frontend is one possibility. I would agree, however, that when people say X11 they are usually talking about a full desktop environment with window manager and access to a shell. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] Why the dislike of X.509?

as PKI. Or maybe I'm missing something. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] Draft document from NIST about SSH in an automated environment

Given recent discussion on this list about using SSH (for VPN access), this document from NIST may be of interest: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/nistir-7966/nistir_7966_draft.pdf Found via: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/25/nist_to_sysadmins_clean_up_your_ssh_mess/ Bill

Re: [Discuss] Verizon blacklisted me

-CVZ_ZZ_ZZ_Z_ZZ_N_X322 Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] contact info for OLPC/Sugarlabs related people in Boston area?

in the Boston metro areas who is still involved with Sugar development/OLPC (one laptop per child) activities? I'm hoping not to just trash the hardware. Bill Bogstad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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