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,

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

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 06/11/2017 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: 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

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,

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: 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,

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?

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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?

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: $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: 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: 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

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: 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,

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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 3/4/21 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: 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 3/6/21 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 3/6/21 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 3/8/21 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 3/5/21 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

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

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

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

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

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