Re: [Discuss] Post issue with bootable linux

On 5/1/2018 11:53 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I have a guy with an older system > Core2 duo CPU > 4GB ddr2 scramble > > Dell motherboard > The problem is when I boot with a known good bootable Linux usb > Ubuntu, Fedora the system fails to post. > 1. Dell logo comes up > 2. Press F12 (boot) or F2

Re: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

On 12/11/2017 11:38 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > The catch is licensing. The Windows license that came with your > computer doesn't cover running it in a virtual machine. You'll have to > buy a full retail license to do that legally. Sorry to come to this thread late, but I don't think

Re: [Discuss] ssh with rsa keys and ldap

On 10/26/2016 4:31 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > Most likely all you had to do was fix the labels (or in some cases > enable a boolean). I say this because SELinux policy should already > exist to allow /usr/sbin/sshd to access authorized_keys--that is a > very basic function of a common system

Re: [Discuss] ssh keys question

On 06/17/2016 02:20 PM, Rich Braun wrote: I often wish sudo had functionality similar to ssh-agent: a way to require a token established at session start, rather than a password entered every time. That is certainly possible to configure: man sudo: Security policies may support credential

Re: [Discuss] ssh keys question

On 6/16/2016 8:21 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > On 06/16/2016 06:37 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> 1. You can assign passwords, but tell sshd to only allow access via >> keys. This is a Good Idea. > > So for you--someone running your own machine--you use keys to login but > still use a password on sudo?

Re: [Discuss] I don't understand

On 06/14/2016 10:38 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: > If the statistical model is guilty of over-fitting (too many degrees of > freedom aka too many parameters), the model is non-falsifiable in the > short-term. (But eventually enough data will show that adding 5th order > epicycles is guff.)

Re: [Discuss] mouse problem

On 5/27/2016 6:35 PM, dan moylan wrote: > > forever, i've been shown a pop-up menu when i right click in > my brower (either firefox or chrome), offering several > options, including "save as". quite suddenly that > functionality has gone away, i.e. i right click and nothing > at all happens.

Re: [Discuss] My Bank's Web Site is Behaving Oddly

On 5/4/2016 5:37 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > -kb, the Kent who admits he doesn't know how https works through Akamai > and the like. It doesn't. Akamai is a TLS termination point. They have the private keys of any domain they are proxying for, so they can act as the TLS endpoint. Once your connection

Re: [Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy

On 4/4/2016 4:54 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: > Every or nearly every version of iOS, including the version on Farook's > employer's iPhone, has vulnerabilities that can be exploited in order to > run unsigned versions of the operating system. GPL Part 3 prohibits > using laws like WIPO as protection

Re: [Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy

On 4/3/2016 2:49 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 4/2/2016 10:20 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: >> That would satisfy the anti-tivoization and be within the limits of the >> GPLv3, while still causing a problem for the FBI in this particular >> instance. > > Incorrect on bo

Re: [Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy

On 4/2/2016 11:54 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 4/1/2016 11:31 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: >> The problem the FBI had even if they modified the OS themselves was >> signing it as an official update so that the phone would accept it... > > The terms of the GPLv3 prohibit the use

Re: [Discuss] Mail screwed the pooch

Here's what you need to get outgoing working through VZ FIOS: Set up stunnel: > cat /etc/stunnel/smtp.verizon.net.conf > [ req ] > client = yes > accept = 2525 > connect = smtp.verizon.net:465 Then set up your mail server to use (in my example) localhost:2525 as an outgoing 'smart host'.

Re: [Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy

On 4/1/2016 9:48 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 4/1/2016 9:11 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> Until the corporation patents a proprietary modification of the Open >> Source software. > > You know, if the full iOS source code were GPLv3 then the FBI would not > have needed Apple to provide a custom OS to

Re: [Discuss] Monitor Modem Log On Server

On 3/18/2016 9:52 PM, jbk wrote: > I have a netgear modem with log export capability that I would like to > monitor on my server. The server is running SL6.7. I presume that I need > to open ports on the firewall and associated protocol. > The modem has simple choices that allow me to point the

Re: [Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

On 01/26/2016 07:31 PM, IngeGNUe wrote: I'm not good with legalese, but does the GPL allow for that? For releasing the source code only after payment? Yes, because the requirement to release source code only comes into play when you /distribute/ the software. The trouble you can run into is

Re: [Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

On 01/22/2016 12:37 AM, David Kramer wrote: I would love to get your opinions (or even better, facts) on how dangerous it would be to run a web and mail server on a dynamic IP. I think Matt was asking about that too. I've been doing this for over 10 years with different providers. Comcast was

Re: [Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

On 1/22/2016 3:22 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 1/22/2016 10:04 AM, Mike Small wrote: >> Has this scenario, that someone uses another's system or ip to >> download child porn or violate copyrights, ever happened to anyone >> in a real legal case where the innocent party wasn't able to >> establish

Re: [Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

On 01/18/2016 11:59 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Comcast has been voted Worst Company In America far too many times, and they seem to revel in it. Avoid them. More specifically w.r.t. their ISP business, if it is just fast bits you want, avoid Comcast. If you do anything "internet-like" (for

Re: [Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

On 01/18/2016 01:06 PM, Kent Borg wrote: P.S. The extra charge for static IP on their web site is a lot and gets a lot worse with speed, makes me toy with the idea of getting two lines (if they are willing, and if Verizon has the copper pairs available on my street): one line that is fast but

Re: [Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

On 01/18/2016 10:10 AM, Kent Borg wrote: Verizon messes with http headers to insert hard-cookies, so I don't want them. To be fair, the "Verizon" that got caught doing that was /just/ the wireless business, which is effectively a different company from the land-line business. They have

Re: [Discuss] linux cpu governors

On 1/12/2016 10:20 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:00:18AM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: >> Recent kernels (not sure exactly when this started) have been driving >> me crazy. >> For reference: Machine: Dell Precision with Intel Core i5 >> OS: Fedor

Re: [Discuss] khugepaged + vmware = massive CPU load

On 12/13/2015 3:54 PM, Shankar Viswanathan wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 06:42:14 -0500 > Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Normally your system keeps track of memory in 4KB pages. They're >> analogous to filesystem blocks. Performance is improved when you >> can satisfy memory

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

On 11/9/2015 8:19 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: >> 3. telnet > > Use netcat. It's a better tool for the kinds of things you might use > telnet for other than logins. Use ssh for logins. telnet is better at one thing than netcat: telling you when you're connected. netcat is just silent and won't return

Re: [Discuss] TUIO?

On 10/25/2015 7:47 AM, Kent Borg wrote: > BREAKING: I found it! Tangible User Interface Objects. Is that like a keyboard? Those are tangible. Usually. Or a mouse. I'm not sure I like the use of that word in the context of a software API. Unless you're doing robotics. That might make sense.

Re: [Discuss] some people help too much

On 9/19/2015 3:51 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Short funny story. > > They other day I was setting up a router and in the docs it said to > go to (don't click here) 'http://sprinthotspot'. No ending. The > router I suppose then shows you the config page. But my browser, in > this case Safari,

Re: [Discuss] Reusing Passwords on Different Sites Should be OK

On 9/18/2015 12:09 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On >> Behalf Of Chris Markiewicz >> >> This is such a bizarre interpretation of "Third-party". A password >> should be considered a secret between two parties: client and

Re: [Discuss] Reusing Passwords on Different Sites Should be OK

On 09/17/2015 03:58 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > The present standard practice is for clients/users to establish an > HTTPS connection and then send username and password over the wire, > where the server will encrypt it using a rate-limiting function such > as pbkdf2, bcrypt, or scrypt,

Re: [Discuss] java keytool x.509 error

On 9/17/2015 9:25 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm attempting to assist a former coworker but have little experience with > Java and the jvm keytool. > > He has to admin a java app (jira) running on ubuntu and needs to change the > SSL from one for that specific server to one for

Re: [Discuss] Mr Robot

On 9/1/2015 5:28 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Eric Chadbourne > wrote: > >> If you can tolerate crap like Scorpion > > > As an early member of the Html Writers Guild, I can't stand the fact that > they use closing tag

Re: [Discuss] OpenSWAN VPN

Not familiar with OpenSWAN, but in OpenVPN sometimes you have to push routes to the clients to force traffic through. Does your routing table look right? On 7/9/2015 10:44 AM, Matt Shields wrote: Does anyone have a working OpenSWAN config or can you see what the issue might be below? Current

Re: [Discuss] memory management

I think plugin-container doesn't get launched until it needs something like the flash plugin. On 6/23/2015 10:03 PM, John Abreau wrote: ps x | grep plug yields nothing but the grep process. ps x -o pid,ppid,cmd | grep 12345 (where 12345 is firefox's PID) yields nothing but the grep process.

Re: [Discuss] memory management

On 6/22/2015 3:38 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: On 6/22/2015 3:13 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: What strikes me as odd and wrong is that the OS doesn't seem to protect itself from thrashing. The system is perfectly happy to render itself inoperative in the service of some lone process sucking up

Re: [Discuss] memory management

I'll chime in on this one more time just to be clear about what my beef with linux is here. Several people have said, in effect, Have more RAM or Have enough RAM for what you need. Which is obviously true, but missing the point. For my day-to-day, I do have enough RAM. What sometimes happens

Re: [Discuss] memory management

Thanks for the suggestions. Addressing some random questions: -this is a Fedora box. Currently v21, but I've had these types of issues for years. - top, when I can get it to run, shows virtually no CPU use. The only thing that is getting to run is kswapd0 if I recall correctly. - I do have

Re: [Discuss] memory management

On 6/20/2015 4:18 PM, Mike Small wrote: Matthew Gillen m...@mattgillen.net writes: going to start swapping if it can. What I want for desktop environments is behavior like: if you run out of memory, kill the thing that's hogging the most. My typical case is that if there is a process using

[Discuss] memory management

I'm looking for some advice on tuning my linux box's memory management. I've got an older workstation that has merely 4GB of memory. If I try to run Firefox, and a few java apps (e.g., Eclipse), my machine thrashes about and effectively locks up because of out-of-memory issues. For example: the

Re: [Discuss] firefox: hello pocket

On 06/02/2015 10:39 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: Does anybody else find it annoying that firefox pushed these two services into the browser? Why bake it in and not make them plugins or something? Because they never purged the Netscape Communicator urges from the late 90's? I don't get annoyed

Re: [Discuss] Cross platform Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware

On 05/29/2015 10:06 AM, Matt Shields wrote: I'm fishing for what others are using for anti-virus/anti-malware on their Windows and Linux servers. Both commercial and open-source is an option. I had some bad experiences with McAfee for linux

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

On 03/21/2015 03:18 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: The really interesting thing for me here is how our modern world of PAM authentication interacts with things that I don't normally think requires authentication. When I saw Jerry's original note, I did some googling and found that this can cause

Re: [Discuss] --sandbox switch for Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade/update-manager

On 03/09/2015 11:50 AM, Tom Metro wrote: I was looking to do a dry run test with do-release-upgrade to see if a system could successfully be upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 after some changes had been made. (An earlier attempted failed to map packages from the old release to the new release.)

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

On 02/17/2015 12:51 PM, Kent Borg wrote: I think the only way to fix the password problem is to get people to discard security theater and think and understand and be disciplined. But if you can fix the password problem, I think the next problems ~start~ to fix themselves. But I don't know,

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

On 02/17/2015 04:05 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: All the talk about solving the password problem is interesting - but not related to the original question - What is the most common, or most important, area that you actually see people communicating insecurely, that should be secured?

Re: [Discuss] Passwords in Source Code?? Or, How to secure interprocess communications?

Set up postgres to only allow connections from the loopback. Put the db credentials in a file, then rely on file-system permissions and/or SElinux to prevent access to that file from other processes on the system. This is the sort of thing SELinux is really designed for. Matt On 1/31/2015

Re: [Discuss] Strange SELinux behavior

Looking at that command on my fedora 20 box, I see the following: ldd -r /usr/bin/condor_status shows that libselinux.so is explicitly linked in to the binary. So it will always try to load it. Interestingly, there is no libsepol.so that gets loaded if I run it as a user or root (although

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

On 01/14/2015 03:26 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: The US govt. (IRS) should provide the tax filing software or service -- like other countries do. +1. Has someone filed one of those white house petitions on this? ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or you can use the web interfaces. This type of software does not really lend itself to to Open Source. Why do you say

Re: [Discuss] apache -- same old

No specific ideas, but some debugging help: restorecon -rv /path will apply SELinux rules as if you're relabeling without requiring a reboot. The -v lets you know if it actually changed anything. Be careful about browser caches tricking you. It can be really frustrating to change something and

Re: [Discuss] SQL discussion

On 1/13/2015 8:08 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I'm a software engineer and I am constantly confounded by other engineer's trepidation/apprehension/dislike for the common database. SQL databases especially. I share your confusion. Part of it I suspect is that people don't want to believe in

Re: [Discuss] apache server

It's easier to just turn on the appropriate boolean: (as root): setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs on On 12/9/2014 5:51 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of dan moylan Forbidden

Re: [Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF

On 12/04/2014 11:42 PM, John Abreau wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/4/2014 12:15 PM, Joe Polcari wrote: To me, that's a good reason for things to stop working. For certain values of good I suppose. Good news: your email wasn't

Re: [Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF

On 12/03/2014 11:20 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: On 12/3/2014 10:52 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Actually, it was designed to protect against that. I sat in the IETF meetings where that was explicitly discussed. If an intermediary strips the DNSSEC records out then a resolver expecting DNSSEC will

Re: [Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF

On 12/03/2014 04:08 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: 2) have application specific hooks to do the appropriate lookups (for instance, this firefox extension, while out of maintenance, seemed to do sort of what I wanted: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/extended-dnssec-validator/ ; also

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

On 11/29/2014 12:45 PM, Bill Horne wrote: Someone, please give me a one-sentence answer I can recite to any suit who asks me what the difference is. I can't use words like systemd: their eyes will glaze over. TIA. Tell them you can tweak old sys-v scripts if they break and/or you need them

Re: [Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF

On 11/25/2014 06:28 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Gillen This is not without new attack vectors: you can only trust DNS responses as far as DNS-SEC goes, which

Re: [Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF

Related to the discussion of how X509 is broken and various hacks to make it work: What I would really like to see is a scheme adopted like SPF for mail: a TXT DNS entry for your domain that has the CA (or a fingerprint for the CA, or maybe the whole public cert). That way you can be

Re: [Discuss] Revisiting VMWare ESX backup options

On 11/04/2014 10:27 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: The encrypt everything ideology is nothing more than security theater: do something that provides a warm and fuzzy feeling without addressing the real problem of poor or nonexistent physical security. If you maintain good physical security then the

Re: [Discuss] Password app

On 10/10/2014 11:55 AM, Mike Small wrote: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes: I found a new password app that looks pretty interesting. It generates passwords based on a master key, and site name, so there is nothing to lose. There are some cons, So the difference between

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

On 9/30/2014 2:20 AM, Rich Braun wrote: The thorny problems with doing this are making sure that (a) the keys are convenient, readily accessible at every reboot (b) the keys can't readily fall into the wrong hands (c) infrequently-accessed filesystems aren't accessible except when needed

[Discuss] vz outgoing mail

I finally had the problem someone else had a little while back where verizon's outgoing relay stopped working. Took a little fiddling to get it working; I believe the OP in that thread was using postfix. If you need to get sendmail going using a similar solution, check out the last post in this

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

On 8/29/2014 7:12 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: A bad actor can do *everything* with a compromised KDC. Yes, there are steps to prevent compromise, just like there are steps to prevent compromise of an X.509 CA. The main difference here is that if I Except there aren't. X.509 lacks mechanisms to

Re: [Discuss] Verizon blacklisted me

On 8/6/2014 4:27 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: # stunnel.conf [ssmtp] accept = 127.0.0.1:10465 connect = smtp.verizon.net:465 But that be transparent to smtp.verizon.net, right? This setup has worked fine for months Hmmm. Can't remember where I got this from, but I've always used

Re: [Discuss] Verizon blacklisted me

On 8/6/2014 6:39 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 8/6/2014 4:27 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: # stunnel.conf [ssmtp] accept = 127.0.0.1:10465 connect = smtp.verizon.net:465 But that be transparent to smtp.verizon.net, right? This setup has worked fine for months Hmmm. Can't

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

On 06/15/2014 11:12 AM, Stephen Adler wrote: I want to thank you all for all the comments you've sent in about peer 2 peer. It seems to me from reading the comments that p2p is basically all about p2p discovery. I also realize that from the discussion, the internet is now broken. The way p2p is

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

I just bought one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704150 Put OpenWRT on it, and I'm loving it. The default firmware isn't bad, but had some issues bridging the wifi to my wired lan (which was on this access point's WAN port). Plus I wanted an excuse to put

Re: [Discuss] port forwarding for a Tornon-exit relay

On 6/16/2014 10:16 PM, Daniel J. Fitzmartin wrote: Are these ports open? If not, port forwarding is required. There could be a few things happening. You only need to port forward if NAT is happening. You probably want to do something with uPnP to set that up in a semi-router-agnostic

Re: [Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

On 05/16/2014 12:52 PM, Bill Horne wrote: My first question is whether mailman allows the BLU to selectively munge headers based on the recipient's preferences: if a YahGooHotCast subscriber can turn off munging by themselves, then we're done, but I don't remember if that's possible. If the

Re: [Discuss] smallest board that can handle 32 GB RAM

On 5/9/2014 5:55 PM, Mike Small wrote: But if you have 16 GB (or 32 GB!?!) you should definitely recompile all your programs with debugging symbols in case one crashes. It's very annoying when programs crash and you don't have symbols. Fedora implemented a solution to this in debuginfo rpms.

Re: [Discuss] Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 234, client disconnected RHEL 6

On 04/07/2014 02:16 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On RHEL 6, I get this message when I try to run a specific Java app. Other X apps seem to run ok. The specific app runs file from my user id on RHEL 5. I am able to run a Python app that uses Tkinter, and it calls another GUI written in Java. Also

Re: [Discuss] Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 234, client disconnected RHEL 6

On 04/07/2014 02:44 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 04/07/2014 02:16 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On RHEL 6, I get this message when I try to run a specific Java app. Other X apps seem to run ok. The specific app runs file from my user id on RHEL 5. I am able to run a Python app that uses Tkinter

Re: [Discuss] Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 234, client disconnected RHEL 6

On 04/07/2014 03:05 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: No that was something suggested earlier. I did do an xhost list a while back but that showed nothing Potentially related to this problem:

Re: [Discuss] What's the best site-crawler utility?

On 1/7/2014 6:49 PM, Bill Horne wrote: I need to copy the contents of a wiki into static pages, so please recommend a good web-crawler that can download an existing site into static content pages. It needs to run on Debian 6.0. wget -k -m -np http://mysite is what I used to use. -k

Re: [Discuss] What's the best site-crawler utility?

On 1/7/2014 7:28 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 1/7/2014 6:49 PM, Bill Horne wrote: I need to copy the contents of a wiki into static pages, so please recommend a good web-crawler that can download an existing site into static content pages. It needs to run on Debian 6.0. wget -k -m -np

Re: [Discuss] UEFI

For the sake of bringing up another topic, I want to thank people for the info on UEFI last week. I decided that being long in the tooth isn't the same as 'broken', and I should put it off a bit longer. What I really want is high-end fanless video cards, and the best options in that very limited

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

On 10/24/2013 12:43 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: Derek Martin wrote: It's based on the study of human behavior, and as such it's no more and no less a science than psychology or sociology, IMO. Successful marketing is based on educated guesses and a great deal of luck in the face of whimsical

[Discuss] UEFI

I realized that my home computers are getting a little long in the tooth, and I'm looking to build a new one (or two). A lot of new motherboards come with UEFI BIOSes. Does this mean anything to me in terms of linux? I'm pretty sure I can put it in 'legacy mode' to disable whatever protection

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

On 10/18/2013 1:30 PM, John Abreau wrote: ... and I put it aside when I realized that my changes would be wiped out the next time I ran yum update. Not necessarily. Here's what RPM does if you make local modifications to a file, and then try to update the package: - if the file you modified

Re: [Discuss] unreadable sector

On 10/12/2013 8:06 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I've brought this up before. One of the drives in my RAID reports an unreadable sector. I'm not worried about thisas this otherwise seems to be a serviceable driveand I take frequent backups. One question I might have is would I be better served by

Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

On 09/25/2013 01:51 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: When Comcast did this in Newton they provided 2 DTAs free of charge. I think there are a few motivations for this: 1. increase revenues 2. provide additional services to compete with FIOS, and the satellite TV networks. 3. (probably a bit less) to

Re: [Discuss] smartcard reader

On 09/20/2013 07:20 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: It looks like I can buy a smartcard reader for $30. http://www.belkin.com/us/pressreleases/8797797352508 I can't find any information about how it can be used, however. Where would I get a small number of smartcards? Where would I get the

Re: [Discuss] smartcard reader

On 09/20/2013 10:04 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 09/20/2013 07:20 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: It looks like I can buy a smartcard reader for $30. http://www.belkin.com/us/pressreleases/8797797352508 I can't find any information about how it can be used, however. Where would I get a small

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

. HTH, Matt On 08/29/2013 09:39 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: On August 29, 2013, Matthew Gillen wrote: Can you cat /proc/cmdline and post the results? (feel free to scrub any UUID-looking things... Ubuntu 12.04: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-37-generic root=UUID=... ro quiet splash

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

On 08/29/2013 11:18 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: I removed the RAID card entirely and just tested the Western Digital Red. Still slow. The only other thing I can think of is that maybe there are some kernel command-line options that Ubuntu might set (for compatibility's sake) that force an old

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

On 08/29/2013 11:47 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 08/29/2013 11:18 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: I removed the RAID card entirely and just tested the Western Digital Red. Still slow. The only other thing I can think of is that maybe there are some kernel command-line options that Ubuntu might set

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

On 8/28/2013 8:02 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: On August 28, 2013, Gregory Boyce wrote: Anything interesting in dmesg related to the drive or the controller? Hmm, I don't really know what to look for, so I put the whole thing here (for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS):

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

On 05/08/2013 10:50 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: Matthew Gillen wrote: Just because they're not in business now doesn't mean the idea of open access is doomed to failure. To the contrary, I maintain that since none of the big CLECs had any long-term success with it demonstrates that the model

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

On 05/08/2013 03:28 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 05/08/2013 10:50 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: Matthew Gillen wrote: - you may not refuse service to someone who is willing and able to pay in that geographic area This is what I wrote. Common carriers provide service to everyone equally. FiOS

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

On 05/08/2013 04:15 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: Matthew Gillen wrote: And I tried to make clear that common carriers have nothing to do with TV. I'm talking about FiOS for internet access. I was never talking about TV. Please stop talking about TV, it is completely irrelevant to this discussion

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

On 5/6/2013 11:58 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: Matthew Gillen wrote: But not in the same way copper POTS was in some very important respects. First, access: Vz doesn't /have/ to provide third party access (so for example there will never be another Speakeasy, or 10-10-220 if you remember

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

On 5/7/2013 11:50 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 5/6/2013 11:58 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: Since any given cable TV provider's service is not common to everyone that service cannot have common carrier status. That isn't what common carrier means. I should also point out that TV is bad example

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

On 05/05/2013 07:36 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: Randy Cole wrote: Without competition or dpu regulation, FiOS is regulated. It is regulated at the local level just like every other cable TV service in the US. But not in the same way copper POTS was in some very important respects. First,

Re: [Discuss] DNS question about DNSENUM.PL

On 3/26/2013 12:13 PM, Chris O'Connell wrote: Hide is perhaps not the right word. Obscure may be better. A default DNSENUM will pull the aforementioned names and IP addresses. I would like to make it so people must know what they're looking for. Tom's description of you can view the file

Re: [Discuss] Gnome 3 activities screen

On 3/3/2013 11:28 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On my gnome3 activities screen I have 2 icons that are dead.(eg. mouse to top left, then click on all applications) One icon is blank and the other specifices the application but does not point anywhere. I'd like to be able to remove one of the icons

Re: [Discuss] USB thumbdrive, Linux only usage: FAT vs NTFS vs other? TRIM support?

On 2/25/2013 10:19 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Matthew Gillen wrote: Create a single directory in the root of the thumb drive, and give that world-write and group-write, then give it set-group-ID bit ('chmod g+s dirname'). Every file created will inherit the group-id of the original directory

Re: [Discuss] USB thumbdrive, Linux only usage: FAT vs NTFS vs other? TRIM support?

On 02/25/2013 12:18 PM, Brendan Kidwell wrote: I have had trouble with using Unix-native filesystems on portable drives in the past, instead of vFAT, because the OS wants to record owners to objects and those owners don't make any sense on another machine. Is there a simple workaround for that?

Re: [Discuss] ssh tunnels

On 02/22/2013 12:25 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:17:33PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: On 2/22/2013 11:04 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:00:13 -0500 Bill Horneb...@horne.net wrote: Speaking of ssh tunnels, can someone figure out how to tunnel through ssh to a

Re: [Discuss] Fedora MP4 Plugin

On 1/31/2013 3:26 PM, aldo albanese wrote: Hi, What would you suggest as of a program to play MPEG-4 in Fedora. I get this message, the movie player requires additional plugin. The following plugin is required MPEG-4 Video decoder. If you're using the Gnome-ish tools,

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

If you don't need the UI, then you can convince java to not require a display. Google for java headless to get pointers. Matt On 1/30/2013 4:37 PM, William Chan wrote: Actually, the service is just a JMS consumer, it doesn't require UI. When it receive a message, it calls an external

Re: [Discuss] Its not possible to make things easier for users

On 01/13/2013 12:52 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:55:26 -0500 Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: Problems with computers are mostly over at this point. It isn't about computers at all. It is about the tasks the users want to accomplish. You can't make them easier without

Re: [Discuss] The perpetual question: current best HDD?

On 01/11/2013 12:06 AM, Rich Braun wrote: Well, that leaves me far more confused than before. Couldn't they have pulled a carton of drives from inventory and /look/ at the the box label that I reported? I don't even quite know how to respond to this, other than to forward it to the Attorney

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses

On 01/03/2013 04:02 PM, Doug wrote: I have a new software project, and don't know which license to use. The first thing to point out is that the project is minor and few will ever care about it. The consequences of choosing a different license are trivial. My decision was between Apache 2.0

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