Re: Email & Spam

> On 3/10/23 12:43, Bruce Labitt wrote: >> In email headers, are there any fields which are not spoof-able? Or is >> email simply a morass that is totally unsolvable and broken? Simply >> impossible to filter spam? Now I am getting spam that is passing all the >> dmarc, spf, and dkim

Let's try this again: 16 February, support software freedom bill HB-617-FN in Concord

There will be a hearing mid-day tomorrow (Thursday) in Concord regarding House Bill 617-FN, "AN ACT prohibiting, with limited exceptions, state agencies from requiring use of proprietary software in interactions with the public." Unfortunately I have no transportation tomorrow, but maybe you'd

Re: New NH "SOFTWARE Act" legislation, RE: FOSS

ill become interactive. There are some parts of the bill as-written that I think really need to be supported; there are also some "... AND PONIES!" items that I guess are there because, well..., that seems to be how this works. On 1/9/22 5:22 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Hopefully

New NH "SOFTWARE Act" legislation, RE: FOSS

Hopefully everyone here has seen this by now, but maybe not since I didn't see any messages here about it yet: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/new-hampshire-residents-make-your-voice-heard-on-january-11th

Anyone use System 76's Pop!_OS? Opinions?

Are there any current or past users of System 76's Pop!_OS here? Just looking for some opinions rooted in actual use about what it's like and what sort of quality-of-life improvements exist for people using it vs. just installing upstream Ubuntu and managing that config yourself. If you tried it

Re: Python re to separate some data values

On 4/28/21 7:01 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > On 4/28/21 6:28 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >>> re.search('(\.)\d{3,3}', r1[1]) returns >>> so it found the first instance. >>> >>> But, re.sub('(\.)\d{3,3}', '(\.)\d{3,3}, ', r1[1]) yields a KeyError: &g

Re: Python re to separate some data values

On 4/28/21 5:57 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > If someone could suggest how to do this, I'd appreciate it.  I've > scraped a table of fine thread metric screw parameters from a website.  > I'm having some trouble with regex (re) separating the numbers.  Have > everything working save for this last

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

On 3/23/21 9:07 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:52 AM Dan Jenkins > wrote: > > In my experience dd works. Make sure the destination disk is larger than > the source. I've had problems sometimes when they were the exact same > size. Any

Re: Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

I'm not sure about the Raspberry Pi 4, but up thru the raspi 3+ there are... problems, e.g.: Beware of USB on the raspi: there are some bugs in the silicon that pretty severely cripple performance when multiple `bulk' devices are used at simultaneously, sometimes to the point of making it

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

On 3/8/21 2:16 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I love this discussion. I've been involved with computer time since the early > 1970s. While at burger King I wrote a standardized set of time utilities in > cobol. Later at Digital I was responsible for the utmp libraries, and the > standard test

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2021, Ben Scott was heard to say: >> Even that's not enough, because the stupid humans keep changing >> what the time zones mean. > > With GMT as the standard time stamp, one can at least know relative > times of files, even if one

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

On 3/8/21 7:28 AM, John Abreau wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 7:48 PM Ben Scott <mailto:dragonh...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:57 PM Joshua Judson Rosen > mailto:roz...@hackerposse.com>> wrote: > > And as a general

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

On 3/6/21 7:46 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:57 PM Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: >> And as a general word of advice from someone whose been burnt way too many >> times: >> if you're going to put timestamps in your filenames, either just use UTC >>

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

On 3/5/21 2:15 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > > On 3/4/21 10:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > > > See also: "The Problem with Time and Timezones" > > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY> > > > >  > > That was somewhat comical.  Y

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

See also: "The Problem with Time and Timezones" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY>  On 3/4/21 10:32 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > On 3/4/21 9:56 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> On 3/4/21 7:13 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: >>> Good point.  I'll check that.

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

On 3/4/21 7:13 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > Good point.  I'll check that.  Logging machine was set to local time EST.  > But it does have a wireless link, maybe it set itself internally to UT.  > Thanks for the hint. You have your code explicitly calling a function named `UTC from timestamp'. If

Re: Strategy for moving off big tech

On 1/21/21 4:58 PM, Ray Cote wrote: > Since we're talking migrations, where did people go after Oracle purchased > Dyn?  > I'm looking to migrate off Oracle DNS this year. > --Ray What specific service have you been getting from Dyn/Oracle? Are we talking about largescale DNS DDOS protection,

Re: Is there a "better NoScript" that makes more sense?

On 1/22/21 1:24 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > On Fri, January 22, 2021 1:08 pm, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> On 1/22/21 12:26 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Yes, it is default-deny and you must enable what you want/need. >>> You can certa

Re: Is there a "better NoScript" that makes more sense?

ey in my previous message, I really don't see any way to do that. > On Fri, January 22, 2021 12:18 pm, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> I've been trying out NoScript in Firefox on one of my computers after >> having seen people recommend it for years, >> and I'm finding that

Is there a "better NoScript" that makes more sense?

I've been trying out NoScript in Firefox on one of my computers after having seen people recommend it for years, and I'm finding that NoScript's whole permissions model just seems..., how do I put this nicely...: stupid. Or maybe just `stupidly antiquated'? Is there something better? More

Re: NH Linux laptop builders (was: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp)

On 1/6/21 4:16 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 3:45 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <mailto:roz...@hackerposse.com>> wrote: > > Showtime Computer <http://www.showtimepc.com/ > <http://www.showtimepc.com/>> in Hudson now does cust

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

On 1/6/21 3:07 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > Checked the media, both are readable using the RPI4.  Seems like the power > supply is failing.  It's cycling on and off even with no media, dvd, or > drives.  I think this is a dead parrot. > > Well, that was fun.  Uh, not really. > > Guess I need to

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

Storage still scares me, just as a general principle..., so I'm basically never going to say "you really have nothing to worry about"..., but I think I _might_ be able to settle your nerves a little: On 12/30/20 2:04 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > I think I have a SSD on the way out.  Last reboot took

Re: Privacy Respecting Replacement for facebook groups

On 9/29/20 12:11 PM, Lori Nagel wrote: > Hello everyone, I'm trying to figure out a privacy  respecting replacement > for facebook groups.  I want something that is easy to join, (so no > requirement that you learn email encryption, system administration or > anything "hard"  but also something

Re: Is your kids' school forcing Zoom on them too?

On 8/10/20 10:23 AM, r...@mrt4.com wrote: > I don't have any kids, but my school district and other governments who claim > jurisdiction over me also require it. > > Since Zoom had said before that it was secure and it turned out that it > wasn't, it certainly doesn't make since to trust them

Re: Is your kids' school forcing Zoom on them too?

On 8/9/20 9:33 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: > On Sun, 2020-08-09 at 08:07 -0400, dmich...@amergin.org wrote: >> In a pinch you can run Zoom wholly in a browser or other semi-sandboxed >> environment such as mobile phone or tablet, without using the desktop app. > > I have attempted to join some meetings

Re: Is your kids' school forcing Zoom on them too?

So apparently it's _not just me_ having trouble maintaining a useful attitude during "COVID life"? ;p On 8/7/20 6:18 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 5:52 PM Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: >> If you haven't heard..., Zoom has turned out to be a complete pri

Is your kids' school forcing Zoom on them too?

So..., pandemic. That's still a thing, and school is about to start up. I hear a lot of schools have decided to make everyone use Zoom, whether they're at school or remote. That's apparently what's happening at my kid's school. If you haven't heard..., Zoom has turned out to be a complete

Re: $5/mo to sponsor linux multitouch touchpad support

On 6/23/20 2:58 PM, Dan Garthwaite wrote: > I just saw on hacker news that this project has some legs and I signed up as > a $5 sponsor. > > https://github.com/sponsors/gitclear > > It's just one of those things standing in the way of widespread linux > adoption.  I'm a lifelong vim user, 

Re: Reminder/RSVP -- meet *this Thursday* for chat & beer.

On 2/19/20 1:53 PM, Ric Werme wrote: > > Note that we'll be there at date/time > 2020 Feb 20 @ 20:02:02 > In odometer format, that's two days before the palindrome > 2020000202 But it's just *a few hours after* the nearest unix time palindrome: $ date --date=@158851 Thu

Re: Reminder/RSVP -- meet *this Thursday* for chat & beer.

On 2/19/20 3:35 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > Wish I could be there.  I remember driving to UNH, Martha's and a few others > to go to meetings. Similar situation here--was hoping to be able to make the schedule work, but it's not looking like it's going to work out this time. Hoping everyone will be

Re: Nashua-area folks -- meet up?

On 1/21/20 6:21 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Well, I'll take point on calling Martha's -- if, that is, enough people > reply to warrant grabbing a bigger table. Anybody got a preferred time? >It's heading toward Feb, and we should probably push it out far enough > that there's a chance those

Japan-certified USB Wi-Fi adapters?

Looking for USB Wi-Fi adapters that have been certified for sale/use in Japan. Any recommendations? -- Connect with me on the GNU social network! Not on the network? Ask me for more info! ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: inotify (was: systemd and search domains.)

On 1/9/20 12:56 PM, Ed Robbins wrote: > > There are some things in Linux that I absolutely gush over because of how > handy they are, > inotify is just such a creature.  I use it in some of the most unlikely places > to solve some of my most baffling problems. Any thoughts on using inotify

Re: systemd and search domains.

So, I don't know anything about GlobalProtect per se (this is the first I've even heard of it...); but...: On 1/8/20 5:24 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > * I used to do the dnsmasq thing, and it works really well, but it's kind of > a pain to set up all the DNS servers and stuff for internal

Re: systemd and search domains.

What sort of VPN is it? e.g.: OpenVPN, Wireguard, IPSec...? And have you installed either resolvconf (which is Suggested by the openvpn package, but not required) or openresolv (which is supposed to be a better, generally compatible, replacement for resolvconf)? On 1/8/20 2:37 PM, Ken

Re: COBOL on HPUX

On 1/7/20 11:36 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > My first few programming jobs was as a COBOL programmer on both Burroughs > and IBM mainframes in the 1970s. > I even was able to have lunch with Grace Hopper. In college I learned > Fortran and BASIC. And pdp 8 assembler. > I got a copy of the

Re: Runaway log...

On 1/6/20 8:45 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > OK, guys. CentOS 7.1. I've got an OpenStack process that wigged out > and was logging like crazy to /var/log/messages. So I killed it. FORTY > FIVE MINUTES AGO. And still, log lines that must've been buffered... > somewhere, are flying into the

Re: SSH and domain wildcards.

i.e.: you just got the order backward :) FYI the ssh_config man page does say: Since the first obtained value for each parameter is used, more host-spe‐ cific declarations should be given near the beginning of the file, and general defaults at the end. On 11/6/19 6:01 PM, Ian

It's International Day Against DRM...

... in case anyone cares but forgot :) And in case anyone's interested in printable materials: * defectivebydesign.org put together a cute printable book-cover (since today's special feature is "DRM'd textbooks") * I converted a couple articles into easy-printing

How to deal with Amazon's VPS "support" when hosting e-mail servers on Amazon, or: How to deal with Vogons?

Anyone familiar with this? I've got at work VPS hosted with Amazon right now, and am trying to get Amazon to drop their constrictions on outbound SMTP traffic so that I can get logcheck reports etc. out of the server. Ideally I'd also like to get them to fix the PTR record in DNS so that it

Re: A NH project...

On 9/23/19 12:36 PM, Bobby Casey wrote: > I love the idea of this and would contribute if I had some time and energy. > I've written a few Python scrapers before, but those were all years ago and > one-offs. I expect that these are going to generally be one-offs as well > If you could share

A NH project...

I just started a project to provide "guerrilla" newsfeeds for movie-theatres and stuff; wondering if anyone would be interested in helping out--adding more newsfeeds for different things. First is the Wilton Town Hall Theatre, which now has a GNU social stream + RSS/Atom feeds via

The sudden upheaval at the FSF...

Presumably you've all seen the news *somewhere* by now: there has been a major upheaval in the free-software community over the last day or so, with RMS resigning from the FSF amidst a remarkable, uh... "flurry" of controversy. Regardless of whether one cares one way or the other about RMS per

Re: Recent Laptop experiences sought

Usually I just buy from ZaReason, have them pre-install whatever distro I need, with whatever options I want (they'll flip whatever switches are available via the installer-- want full-disk encryption? LVM? Software RAID? Some combination? Just ask them). And these laptops are just

How GNU has influenced POSIX over the years

Found this article while doing a websearch for myself (gotta do that every once in a while...), and thought some of you would enjoy it--it's an interesting read, actually: What is POSIX? Richard Stallman explains Discover what's behind the standards for operating system

Re: Edit over SSH.

You haven't lived until you've invoked emacs noninteractively from a Makefile to, say... render your documentation into end user consumables. On 2/27/19 4:02 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > I know the feeling.  I've gotten so used to emacs for coding (python, shell) > and vi for remote/quick work that

Re: Quantum Crypto redux Re: Boston Linux Meeting ... Crypto News, plus ...

On 09/19/2018 10:33 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > QuBits aren't QUITE on the Moore's Law 18-month doubling cycle yet; my > back-of-the-envelope shows going from 7 QuBits to 72 QuBits in 16 years is > doubling in 28 months.  Which is kinda close to Moore's law for RAM (24 > months)... > How soon the

Re: Kevin D. Clark, R.I.P.

On 09/04/2018 01:27 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:53 AM Ted Roche wrote: >> I'm sorry to report of the passing of Kevin D. Clark at the too-young age of >> 48... > > This is horrible. > > Oh my. > > Kevin has been a member of GNHLUG since just about forever. I > remember

Re: Kevin D. Clark, R.I.P.

On 08/22/2018 02:46 PM, Jim Sheldon wrote: > I worked with Kevin for a short time about 10 years ago, this is very > sad, he was a great person. Seconded. The obituary for the more general audience doesn't necessarily do justice, for people who actually knew him in more specific capacities; I

Re: Is Amazon AWS/EBS snapshotting just LVM, or what?

rough LVM (snapshotting a block device captures all of the blocks that *have actually been written* at the time of the snapshot). > On Sep 28, 2017 1:17 PM, "Joshua Judson Rosen" <roz...@hackerposse.com > <mailto:roz...@hackerposse.com>> wrote: > > I

Re: Is Amazon AWS/EBS snapshotting just LVM, or what?

, YMMV and other assorted disclaimers, > > -Ken > > > On 2017-09-28 13:16, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> I'm working on a project that uses Amazon AWS-provided VPS instances, >> and the other guy on the project is telling me that "snapshotting >> hourly may degrade

Re: Is Amazon AWS/EBS snapshotting just LVM, or what?

On 09/28/2017 01:48 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > The lack of coherence due to OS cave not being flushed should still be a > concern. In the general case, yes. In my particular case I'm specifically concerned only with data that's stored transactionally to the extent that (and I really hope that I'm

Re: Is Amazon AWS/EBS snapshotting just LVM, or what?

magine > they're using some content-aware CoW solution such as ZFS.  But, > whatever mechanism, I agree with your opinion: I doubt that their > solution -- almost certainly CoW of some sort -- stands a chance of > being more than even slightly impactful. > > $.02,

Is Amazon AWS/EBS snapshotting just LVM, or what?

I'm working on a project that uses Amazon AWS-provided VPS instances, and the other guy on the project is telling me that "snapshotting hourly may degrade performance", and I'm trying to determine where that's actually true. My gut feeling is that it sounds kind of bogus. >From the information

Re: Satellite Internet relative security

On 08/26/2017 09:46 PM, James A. Kuzdrall wrote: > On Friday 25 August 2017 13:04:11 Brian St. Pierre wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:56 AM, James A. Kuzdrall >> >> wrote: >>> Does Linux have any special problems interfacing with the dish >>> equipment? >>> Is a

Network-controlled power switches/relays?

Anyone have any experience with ethernet-controlled power relays? I have a situation with a couple of embedded Linux appliances I'm working on, that are deployed hundreds of miles away from me, and I need the ability to power-cycle one of them remotely. Looking for some sort of remote-controlled

Why does Ruby init its random number generator up front? (was: Ruby slow to launch)

On 08/08/2017 03:33 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com > <mailto:roz...@hackerposse.com>> wrote: > > On 08/08/2017 02:52 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > On 2017-08-08 14:43, Bill Freeman

Re: Ruby slow to launch (was L-o-n-g delay for rc.local in systemd on Ubuntu.)

On 08/08/2017 02:52 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > On 2017-08-08 14:43, Bill Freeman wrote: >> I don't know, but getrandom() may well be using /dev/urandom (or a >> related facility). And that, in turn, might be waiting to "collect >> sufficient entropy". So some network traffic, keystrokes,

Re: Linux for time lapse and wifi?

On 06/28/2017 10:53 AM, David Rysdam wrote: > Ken D'Ambrosio writes: >> On 2017-06-28 10:31, Richard Kolb II wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I'm looking into using a pine a64 running ubuntu mate to setup a time >>> lapse photo using a standard digital camera controlled over USB. I

Netiquette (was: Need to copy a 200GB directory)

On 06/27/2017 10:01 PM, R. Anthony Lomartire wrote: > OK, my apologies for hijacking this thread, I haven't been on a mailing list > in forever but I will apply proper > etiquette. Can I just ask what you mean by "top post" though? Not everyone reads or even receives every message, in real time,

Re: [Discuss] Any miners?

On 06/16/2017 06:12 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > Bitcoin initially did not require specialized hardware, but as new golden > hashes get harder to find, mining costs more > in electricity and depreciation without speciality gear (or a huge BITNET > running for free). If scarcity drives up BTC >

Re: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?

On 06/12/2017 01:27 PM, Dan Coutu wrote: >> On Jun 12, 2017, at 13:15, Tom Buskey > > wrote: >> >> As Ted said in the 2nd sentence, it's running on a non-standard port. Yes, >> it helps lot to reduce garbage in the logs. > > Insisting on the use of an

Re: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?

On 06/11/2017 10:17 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > For 36 hours now, one of my clients' servers has been logging ssh > login attempts from around the world, low volume, persistent, but more > frequent than usual. sshd is listening on a non-standard port, just to > minimize the garbage in the logs. > > A

Re: Multiple default gateways.

On 04/26/2017 01:23 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio > wrote: > > Then someone on a BBS I'm on > pasted this link: > >

Susan, where are you? (was: what a luck)

On 04/07/2017 11:32 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > Susan Cragin are you there? > > Her last post was in Sept. > > These SPAM emails don't necessarily originate from her account [1], but there > have been a few of these now. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job And going by

GNU Robots ported to Scheme to JavaScript

That's a nice `April Fools' title, anyway. Actually, I did that, though the real `HHOS' bit is that I actually did it accidentally I've recently started using GNU Robots to introduce my son to programming, and ran into some annoying bugs. Mostly I just wanted to fix the way the way it

Re: "investigator hackers"?

On 02/15/2017 02:41 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:30 AM, David Rysdam wrote: >> >> Our common friend asked me if anything like an "investigator hacker" >> existed that could look into these things, trace it back, send take-down >> requests, etc. > > Because

Re: Traffic shaping.

On 01/10/2017 01:51 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > On 2017-01-10 13:47, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> On 01/10/2017 01:28 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: >>> Hey, all. I've got an OpenVPN network talking to a server at a remote >>> site over the corporate WAN. (Reasons for th

Re: Traffic shaping.

On 01/10/2017 01:28 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, all. I've got an OpenVPN network talking to a server at a remote > site over the corporate WAN. (Reasons for this are complex, and I won't > bore you with them, but please trust me that this setup was required > "because IT.") Anyway, I'd

Re: Scanning medium-format film in Linux?

In case anyone else was interested in how this turned out...: On 05/27/2015 02:16 AM, John Abreau wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com > <mailto:roz...@hackerposse.com>> wrote: > > > > One of the

Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary > machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised > me considering it's a faster machine, more ram, and an SSD, over my > 14.x LTS machine. Does it perhaps

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

the fan on the other side of the giant copper heatsink. Melted the thermal g[l]oo tout de suite. And now I'm thinking about upgrading the pots and pans in my kitchen from aluminum and cast iron to copper -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr." > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016

Computer parts up for grabs (was: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?)

/07/2016 10:03 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto > until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably silly...). > > Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that > (a) now I need to g

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

d the dental-floss trick, well, actually, thin fishing line. It > worked well enough without the alcohol, it was just a slow, steady process. > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM Joshua Judson Rosen > <roz...@hackerpos

Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably silly...). Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that (a) now I need to get the heatsink off of the CPU in order to transfer the CPU between

Re: Phone SPAM/SCAM

I used Google Maps to look up the location of the CIA one time--and Google gave me the wrong location. OpenStreetMap pulled no such shenanigans, of course :) -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. On June 28, 2016 4:15:41 PM EDT, "Greg Rundlett (freephile)"

The blockchain: threatening the distributed nature of the Internet?

Caught this last month via social: "The blockchain is a threat to the distributed future of the Internet" https://lasindias.com/blockchain-is-a-threat-to-the-distributed-future-of-the-internet Basically, the idea seems to be that, because the blockchain in Bitcoin and friends

Re: Amber screen?

On 04/26/2016 11:08 AM, Dan Garthwaite wrote: > I'm a fan of f.lux and redshift (the linux equiv). Redshift is probably the thing to use with X11. The docs on that say that "color temperature is changed by setting appropriate gamma ramps", but it looks like it's actually using XCB to scale *all

Re: Mouse event problems

ame fishbowl proved fatal" (Interestingly, a web-search for "siamese fighting linux" yields *no hits*! Maybe I'll start a project and call it that...) -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr." > -- Forwarded message -- > From: J

Re: Mouse event problems

On 03/29/2016 05:08 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > I've been bitten by bad mouse problems enough times that when I see > symptoms like yours, it's pretty much my go-to. I had someone in > England call me some time back, and could *NOT* figure out her problem. > Finally had her wipe her machine

Re: MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS

On 03/27/2016 10:08 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > "Previously, software releases using free and open source licenses > were approved by an internal committee. But since we’ve always > allowed our developers to open-source their work, we’re eliminating > the unnecessary hurdle: from now on

Re: Mouse event problems

org> wrote: >Would HWCursor an option in /etc/X11? > >On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen ><roz...@hackerposse.com> wrote: >> Alternately, maybe a problem due to the use of "HWCursor" option in >Xorg? I >> somewhat doubt that's something t

Re: Mouse event problems

Alternately, maybe a problem due to the use of "HWCursor" option in Xorg? I somewhat doubt that's something that can actually mess w/ behaviour other than rendering, but maybe? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. On March 25, 2016 1:44:57 PM EDT, Ken

PSA: update your encrypted SSH keys (was: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures")

SH client-side tools (prior to version 6.5), if for some reason you're in a situation where you want to upgrade your security but can't upgrade your tools: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-of-ssh-private-keys.html -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(r

Re: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures" (was: Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday)

On 02/21/2016 06:49 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > According to > > http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/ > > Original web site posting here: > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > Be careful out there. And he says "check its MD5 signature" So

Re: Manchester Linux Instalfest

Is the location on the Meetup page supposed to be hidden for people without Meetup accounts (or non logged into Meetup for whatever reason)? Is that just how Meetup works? (the location _is_ visible on the eventbrite page) On 02/21/2016 11:39 AM, Paul Beaudet wrote: > Linux Installfest! > >

Re: Weird keyboard problems....

On 02/08/2016 01:23 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > It sounds to me as though a trace is broken, or just possibly the > connection to the ribbon cable that joins the keyboard to the system > (at either end possibly. Operating additional keys somehow routes > around the open from the point of view of

Re: Free software games for babies

On 02/16/2016 07:00 PM, Lori Nagel wrote: > Hi, I have a just turned 2 year old and I would like to find some > simple press any key game geared for babies and young toddlers that > are free (as in freedom) software. I tried a web search but I've only > seen things geared for older children. My

Re: Data recovery

On 02/16/2016 09:22 AM, Susan Cragin wrote: > > I recursively deleted my home folder, "susan." > I have days-old backup but want to try data recovery. Is this on a spinning-platter HDD, or on one of those new-fangled SSDs? As far as I understand it, you're unlikely to be able to recover any

Re: iptables confusion.

On 02/15/2016 04:37 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Every time I think I'm getting to the point where I might understand IP > Tables, I do something that proves that, no, I really don't. Today's > confusion: I want to set up a virtual NIC to do port forwarding. But > first, I wanted to get the

GNU social in NH

So, one of the things in the news recently has been `the impending death of Twitter'. I'm actually not so much interested in the life _or_ death of Twitter per se, but one of the things that's accompanied the `#RIPTwitter' thing has apparently been some additional interest in GNU social, e.g.:

Weird keyboard problems....

So, this may be only marginally on-topic at best..., but I've got this weird problem with the keyboard on my laptop: I've got a bunch of keys that intermittently become dependent on some other keys. Every so often, the Y, U, J, 9, comma, Enter, and Home keys all stop working unless I hold

Re: Weird keyboard problems....

expecting. Looking at it through a loupe, it looks like there's actually a thin sheet of carbon or similar-looking material installed as a layer over the contacts. Made me hesitate before trying the alcohol swab; actually, it makes me wonder whether those contacts are really cleanable at all.

Looking for work (was: Some of you may be interested in signing an H-1B related petition)

On 01/25/2016 11:57 AM, Bill Freeman wrote: > IEEE has an article here about abuse of the H-1B visa, putting citizens out > of work. It links to a petition asking the government to investigate. > > See the article here: http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/policy/255071 Thanks, Bill. It

Re: New malware at work? Fake referrer 11m.php and trying various .asp URLs.

On 2015-12-02 08:41, Ric Werme wrote: > Oh how cute. After a break yesterday AM, the "assault" resumed. One new > actor > is from abuser.eu. My guess is that's an official site that is investigating > the malware, as the registration info is impossibly brief: > > $ whois abuser.eu > >

Who's got the UBUNTU vanity plate?

Whoever's got the "Ubuntu" NH vanity plate: I just passed you in Connecticut. Happy Thanksgiving, all (and a safe journey for everyone else whose holiday involves a road-trip) :) -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my

Re: symlink confusion

On 11/14/2015 04:29 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > > Original link: from > http://askubuntu.com/questions/693145/installing-cuda-7-5-toolkit-on-ubuntu-15-10 > > /I wanna share my experience on installing CUDA 7.5 (in order to use with > Theano) on Ubuntu 15.10. / > > // > > 1. > >/I

Re: symlink confusion

Bruce Labitt wrote: > >Pardon my denseness (density?), but what you have shown is still >confusing to me. > >ln -s thing-I-want-a-symlink-to where-I-want-to-put-it <-- I don't >understand this :( > >In my case, I want any reference to cc to point to

Re: symlink confusion

On 11/14/2015 04:27 PM, Ric Werme wrote: > >> Sorry about this primitive question, sometimes I get confused about >> the order. As I have found online, the description is > >> ln -s /path/to/file path/to/symlink. > >> However, this still confuses me. Which is which in my example? > > Yeah,

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