That was a lot of fun last night.
So let's see. Topic ideas, what are people most interested in...
PGP/GPG, personal cryptography
Encrypted removable media
Networking architecture fundamentals
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and why/how VoIP uses it
The Registry Is Not An Index, or What
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:33 PM, kenta ke...@guster.net wrote:
Personally I'd be interested in SIP as I have little to no exposure to
it and following closesly is encrypted removal media, as this is
something I should probably be doing... but I don't :)
I'm already throwing together a
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On Saturday 27 April 2013, Michael ODonnell was heard to say:
Even on just a silly little RAID1 mirror on a multi-Tb
array I dread seeing the various messages announcing
routine maintenance and diagnostic operations as
they take forever and
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On Monday 06 May 2013, Bruce Labitt was heard to say:
Never did find where stuff for dist-upgrade was stored.
Fortunately, I was able to run a do-release-upgrade that actually
completed. Thanks for everyone's suggestions.
Interesting.
The
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I received a letter today from a computer recycler which proudly puts
Windows on their machines and then gives them to people who can't
afford to buy Windows. Their words are quoted (since I don't know how
to highlight in ascii):
Microsoft
For ease of use, I PDF'd it, but it's a LibreOffice editable PDF, and
linked it here:
http://Priss.com/
http://Priss.com/SIP_Overview.pdf
Thank you for the opportunity.
Curt-
P.S.: Here's where I used one of Maddog's talks:
http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-is-not-free.html
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On Monday 27 May 2013, Ben Scott was heard to say:
And now you know... the rest of the story.
-- Ben
Blast it all, Ben, you should know better than to present facts!
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
So, it's been something like a million years since I gave a proper
presentation with `slides' and stuff; I have one that I want to
put together, though, now--and I... haven't the faintest idea how
people actually
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On 06/13/2013 07:18 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
if you Jerry or someone previewed the site with Chrome, Google knows.
there are hints that links in email are captured.
links in mailing list archives are definitely captured.
No such thing as private
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote:
The latest Androids seem to require MTP(?) to transfer files between it
and a remote system. Some do the connection only over bluetooth, some
over the USB cable.
Must be a new thing.
I got an Android last year, version
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
robots.txt is just like the yellow line on the highway. Having everyone
honor it is what keeps you from having a 50 mph head on collision but the
line won't do anything to prevent it.
Well put. It's an element of the
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote:
Rather frustrating - I'm pretty sure the average user would not be able to
figure this stuff out unless they were using a windows system or a Mac.
I have an iPhone through work.
When I plug that into my Linux box, it
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roz...@geekspace.comwrote:
Just watched this documentary with my wife:
`Hackers are People Too'
http://www.hackersarepeopletoo.com/
There's two Linux documentaries that I know of, The Code
and Revolution OS.
I'm sure
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Doug Englebart died yesterday, at his home.
http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2013/07/doug-englebart.html
http://mashable.com/2013/07/03/doug-engelbart-dead/
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:59 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
Awesome. Not so much sneaky as separating computers from computer
science.
Teaching problem solving, iteration, algorithms, and such, does not
require a computer.
I keep being told that real programmers don't focus on the
The last time I rebuilt my system I forgot to include any swap. As a
result, I've been paying attention to RAM use, speed, etc.
I've had no problems. 4GB of RAM seems to be sufficient, but that
doesn't stop me from using lshw to pull up the mobo, check the specs,
and see what 16GB costs today on
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote:
Clock numbers on DDR SDRAM are odd. Then marketing gets involved. This
might clear things up, or confuse you more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM#JEDEC_standard_modules
So lshw might be reporting the clock speed of
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Hi.
I pulled down the latest TOR browser, and the Vidalia network
configuration interface doesn't come up any more. Yet it says it's
working.
Is this normal? Has the TOR browser bundle changed that much so
quickly?
Curt-
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On Wednesday 01 January 2014, Curt Howland was heard to say:
Hi.
I pulled down the latest TOR browser, and the Vidalia network
configuration interface doesn't come up any more. Yet it says it's
working.
Is this normal? Has the TOR browser
So I'm trying to put together a nice firewall, and there is one
command that is just not working:
ip6tables -A INPUT -m limit --limit 3/min --limit-burst 10 -j LOG
--log-prefix [INPUT6]:
ip6tables is acting as if -j LOG is trying to jump to a chain that
has not been defined.
ip6tables: No
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So, I rebooted into kernel 3.2.x and logging works just fine.
However, in trying to recompile 3.12, I don't find that logging
module. I searched in menuconfig, but it wasn't there.
The reason for this is that my home router does no packet
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On Tuesday 21 January 2014, Jerry Feldman was heard to say:
When I was in High School I learned how to program a slide rule.
Hehehe. My first calculator was a Heathkit. :^)
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I've been thinking of picking up a webcam for use in hangouts, skype,
etc, and I don't want to spend the money for something that isn't
going to work.
Anyone have any problems with the mainline brands like Logitec, or
some of the, ah, cheaper ones? :^)
Cheap is good.
--
The secret of
Good afternoon.
I have a background process running from which I would like, from time
to time, to check the console output. I do not want to dedicate a
console window to it, and since I start it from a script the console
output is usually just lost to the akashic ethers.
I've not played with
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Michael ODonnell
mod.gnh...@b0rken.com wrote:
Pardon the noise - just verifying that I can post
to the GNHLUG list using my non-ComCast email address..
Seems to have worked. :^)
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and the secret of freedom is courage.
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On Tuesday 25 March 2014, Ben Scott was heard to say:
Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4,
I recently made the mistake of getting a Galaxy S3. It has the same
software bug of not being able to be a USB disk, only the
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:07 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com wrote:
...while blindfolded because IT security had it as a secret route.
Too bad I don't live in Nashua.
I learned basic from a book, Basic BASIC, a year before I had my first computer.
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On Sunday 09 November 2014, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say:
So, here's a `fun' question for other people raising little
hackers
What's the right age or developmental milestone at which to
introduce (or help them learn about--or _let_
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Patrick Flaherty pflahe...@wsi.com wrote:
If you do get it working, it would be a great talk at a meeting.
Agreed.
Mesh networking is interesting, but the implementations appear
difficult to impossible at best.
Curt-
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On Friday 11 September 2015, Matt Minuti was heard to say:
> I've only used Tor for a few minutes, maybe 5 years ago, just to
> try it out, but I've always loved the idea. It would be great (and
> totally an ALA sort of thing to do) if libraries all
My replies in Gmail are not going back to the list, for some reason.
Let me also put in a plug for Hurricane Electric at Tunnelbroker.net
their IPv6 resources are excellent.
A friend of mine, Owen DeLong, was their IPv6 evangelist for several years.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Curt Howland
I had two Win10 laptops lose their Linux boot options at the same time,
also.
I think Microsoft is playing petty games.
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and the secret of freedom is courage.
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On 9/14/19, Mark Ellison wrote:
> Hi-
>
> As appropriate, please respond with your recent laptop experience...
I use a Dell 6430 at work, and everything works with Debian. It's been
a solid workhorse.
My Mom is now using a 6430 since her machine flaked out and I knew
this would work.
For
A book that came up in discussion this evening:
"Doon"
Desert planet. A world almost entirely devoid of entrees.
https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780671541446/22828573958_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-PLP1
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Can't even spell "Dessert" right.
I beg the congresses' pardon.
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> On September 29, 2020 12:11:53 PM EDT, Lori Nagel
wrote:
> >Hello everyone, I'm trying to figure out a privacy respecting
> >replacement for facebook groups.
MeWe is still quite sparsely populated, unfortunately. They did add
events
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On Saturday 08 August 2020, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say:
> So apparently it's _not just me_ having trouble maintaining a
> useful attitude during "COVID life"? ;p
Watching a civilization collapse is not a comfortable thing.
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On Sunday 09 August 2020, Lloyd Kvam was heard to say:
> I have attempted to join some meetings and discovered that the app
> was *required*.
My experience as well.
Microsoft Teams, at least, allows me to be a passive viewer without
having to
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On Monday 22 March 2021, Bruce Labitt was heard to say:
> Since the sizes are "equal", can I just # dd if=/dev/sdb
> of=/dev/sdf bs=1M status=progress and be done with it? Is there
> anything else that I'd need to do to get it to boot?
Since using
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On Tuesday 23 March 2021, Bruce Labitt was heard to say:
> Is there a compelling reason to use ddrescue over dd for this? Is
> gnu ddrescue the preferred choice of the ddrescues?
Until now I'd never even heard of ddrescue. Reading the gnu page for
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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
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On Sunday 07 March 2021, Ben Scott was heard to say:
> If we could get all the humans to agree to follow UTC everywhere
> and just abolish time zones, things would be better, yah. But we
> can't even get the US on the metric system, so I hold
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On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say:
> On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you
> > wake up, and then demanding that everyone else
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On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say:
> What's the likelihood that this date is going to pass through a
> computer where time_t is not wider than 32 bits before then?
Hehehehe.
Tovalds was asked about the 2038
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On Tuesday 16 February 2021, Shawn O'Shea was heard to say:
> This is just my impression from seeing various blog posts, tweets
> and podcast discussions, so others may have better
> answers/guidance.
Thank you. This is not a silly question, such
(glances over at stack of full external USB drives...)
(shifts uncomfortably)
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On Monday 02 January 2023, Lloyd Kvam was heard to say:
> Salt Hill Pub - Lebanon
> http://www.salthillpub.com/
>
> Thursday, Jan 5, 6-8PM
> RSVP so we can get a table(s) of sufficient size.
Please count me as 1.
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