Re: [Discuss] Recommended Calendar with Popup Reminders

Evolution can do the same, although I've never found it that stable. On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 11:38 AM Nancy Allison wrote: > Thanks, all. I will be checking these out. > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:04 AM, David Rosenstrauch > wrote: > > > On

Re: [Discuss] It's official... we are now "On Beyond Zebra"

Given the date of that last announcement, I think it's safe to assume we have no idea what it'll be. On Sun, Apr 2, 2017, 10:00 AM Kurt L Keville wrote: > Canonical employees seem like they are no better at predicting the release > names than anyone else... >

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

A lot of laptops include a shut off for the wireless in the form of a function key or a physical switch. It may be worth checking for that. On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, 8:35 PM Nancy Allison wrote: > Hi, everyone. Thank you for your great replies! I hope this additional >

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality

On Jul 23, 2014 4:58 PM, Stuart Conner genuineau...@gmail.com wrote: When we, the consumers band together and demand that our isp's not slow down our, the customer's, net activity and/or change isp's and say why we're leaving. They listen to money. Otherwise they don't care. You forget that

Re: [Discuss] OpenBSD and LibreSSL

I really preferred the OpenTLS name that someone had suggested on the OpenBSD mailing list. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Stephen Ronan sro...@panix.com wrote: In the wake of Heartbleed, OpenBSD group is creating a simpler, cleaner version of the dominant OpenSSL.

Re: [Discuss] UEFI

Apparently I dropped the list on my response. On Oct 23, 2013 6:10 AM, Gregory Boyce gbo...@badbelly.com wrote: UEFI requires a GPT partition table rather than msdos, so migrating an existing OS installation may not work so well. GPT means requiring grub2 as well. On Oct 23, 2013 1:37 AM

Re: [Discuss] Why are all my hard drives slow on Ubuntu? (new computer)

Anything interesting in dmesg related to the drive or the controller? On Aug 28, 2013 6:12 PM, Daniel Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com wrote: On August 28, 2013, Richard Pieri wrote: Poke around with hdparm settings. Ubuntu probably defaults to more conservative settings. hdparm shows

Re: [Discuss] KeePassX

That depends on the cipher in use and if it supports perfect forward secrecy or not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy On 08/14/2013 06:34 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Agreed. But, breaking the session key only works for a single message or a single session. If they want to

Re: [Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

On Jul 2, 2013 7:24 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote: I should clarify that it's specifically Contacts data, and to a lesser extent calendar data, that I'm worried about. Yes. I know you can turn off syncing contacts with GMail, but I had assumed if I turned that

Re: [Discuss] (OT) Android OS version upgrade

The play store will know what OS your running. On Sep 15, 2012 2:34 PM, edwa...@mcom.com wrote: If an Android phone right out of the factory box came installed with Froyo or Gingerbread and over time, the phone is eventually upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich, would Google Play then recognize that

Re: [Discuss] Android hardware fragmentation

Well, it depends what you mean by supported. I expect well see CyanogenMod 7.x updates for systems that aren't supported in 9 or 10. On Aug 17, 2012 4:29 PM, Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:52:07 -0400 Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: Similarly, when

Re: [Discuss] OT: a Noplan Phone?

Sounds like you essentially want an iPod touch or the Android equivalent. There have been a few 5 or smaller tablets. On Jul 8, 2012 4:55 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: Twist... Ok, say I want an Android (or other) 'smart phone' but with 'no-plan' or a 'pay as you go' plan. I want to

Re: [Discuss] insert text in a large file without open it

Sounds like you just want to append. echo text to append filename.txt a single overwrites the file. double appends to the end of the file. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:00 PM, aldo albanese aldo_alban...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I have a large text file, about 9 gig.  I would like to insert a

Re: [Discuss] insert text in a large file without open it

. unusual, it takes the Un from the error given. Aldo -- *From:* Gregory Boyce gbo...@badbelly.com *To:* aldo albanese aldo_alban...@yahoo.com *Cc:* discuss@blu.org discuss@blu.org *Sent:* Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:01 PM *Subject:* Re: [Discuss] insert text

Re: [Discuss] box.net

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Theodore Ruegsegger grun...@gmail.com wrote: Dan O'Donovan wrote: Just in case anyone here isn't aware of this, you can also use disposable email address' with Google's gmail. ... your.account+boxnet@gmail.com I certainly wasn't aware of it. Looks like a

Re: [Discuss] an Enterprise Linux for desktop

On Nov 23, 2011 4:41 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I think I've decided to move away from Ubuntu. Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but I'm not liking the changes. CentOS? OpenSuSE? Fedora? Which changes? Gnome 3 well hit them all eventually, although THROw based distros like Centos or Scientific

Re: [Discuss] Data including email, stored in the cloud, may be available to law enforcement without search warrant

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Daniel C. dcrooks...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM,  ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: This is a problem that can be easily solved by using end-to-end encryption. The capability is already built-in to every common email client. Assuming your ISP

Re: [Discuss] Security

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:10 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: At my work, here are a few vending machines. One of these machines has a nice little antenna on it. Presumably, it communicates via cellular network to the vendor in order to report on usage and supplies. Yes, good idea. Cool. It

Re: [Discuss] Security

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Matt Shields m...@mattshields.org wrote: I think his point was more that these smart vending machines are becoming more commonplace.  Even these days companies put ethernet jacks in the kitchen, so what *if* someone who was malicious put something inside a

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, John Abreau abre...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of deploying an IPv6-only server at our colo facility so I can get some practical experience with IPv6. I've got server hardware available for the project, so now I need to work out the remaining details. IPv6

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:22 PM, John Abreau abre...@gmail.com wrote: A hybrid system might make sense if I were deploying a production server, but at this point I'm not doing that. I can always experiment with a hybrid server at a later date, after I've worked with the IPv6-only server for a

Re: Apache reverse-proxy closing my connection?

Two things I noticed: 1) NTLM auth may not work properly via proxy. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/312633 2) disablereuse=on and keepalive=on are contractory. Both are referring to the persistence of the backend connection rather than the frontend. keepalive=on turns it on

Re: wireless configuration

You can try increasing the timeout for dhclient in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. I've seen issues in the with dhclient timing out too early when using wpa_supplication on 802.1x wired networks. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:53 AM, johnmal...@comcast.net wrote: I reinstalled both wpasupplicant and

Re: Linux-ish Laptop Question

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Gregory Boyce gbo...@badbelly.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Dan O'Donovan odono...@hkl.hms.harvard.edu wrote: Another friend strongly suggested the Lenovo thinkpad, but it seems that neither Micro Centre nor Best Buy have these in stock. I'd

Re: Android Tablet

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang hsuan...@yahoo.com wrote:  I wouldn't be surprise if Microsoft distributes Windows 8 (or whatever) via on-line upgrades from Windows 7. Pardon that this may be a bit off topic, but I came up with an idea of booting an OS (e.g., Win7) over the