Re: ed! the one true editor! (was Re: sed on a large file)

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > still useful) ed or ex. ed is the original unix text line editor, dating > back to 1969 and still included with modern unix & linux systems. It also famously had one of the most ultra-terse man pages in all of Unix, thus leading to this humour piece

(forw) Re: [golugtech] DMARC mitigation, ezmlm, and golugt...@lists.troubleshooters.com

- Forwarded message from Steve Litt - Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 05:28:58 -0400 From: Steve Litt To: golugt...@lists.troubleshooters.com Subject: Re: [golugtech] DMARC mitigation, ezmlm, and golugt...@lists.troubleshooters.com On Sun, 2022-09-25 at 02:14 -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > It is

Re: (forw) DMARC mitigation, ezmlm, and golugt...@lists.troubleshooters.com

Sorry, another edit error. > And that brings me to ezmlm. Daniel J. Bernstein ("djb") wrote it, and > there's a lot to like about it. He orphaned it in 1997. > > The DMARC problem was sprung onto the world in 2012. Dan purported to > retroactively place almost all of his software, by

Re: (forw) DMARC mitigation, ezmlm, and golugt...@lists.troubleshooters.com

Correcting edit error. > I ask because I don't know. I worry a bit, because, over the decades > before 2007, when Dan used his semi-covertly-proprietary licensing > to enforce some modernity-hostile improvements (such as FHS compliance), ^^^ discourage Dan's pre-2007 licensing made it

(forw) DMARC mitigation, ezmlm, and golugt...@lists.troubleshooters.com

Steve Litt migrated GoLUG's mailing list on an emergency basis to ezmlm. I just wanted to make him aware of the DMARC problem. - Forwarded message from Rick Moen - Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 21:29:13 -0700 From: Rick Moen To: golugt...@lists.troubleshooters.com Subject: DMARC mitigation,

Re: SA DKIM rule

Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > Yes, but unfortunately it seems that the bad guys do DKIM, DMARC and SPF > better than many "good" guys. This is nonetheless a win, because if the bad guys are forced to profess their own domains with bad or

Re: linux laptop

Quoting Keech, Richard (richard.ke...@gmail.com): > after a few years of using windows for my daily needs, I'm considering > switching back to Linux. Any thoughts on this > laptop >

Re: Flounder Meeting Saturday 6th August 01:00UTC

I wrote: > I hope you wouldn't mind clarifying/confirming opening time. Sent seconds before seeing Russell's follow-up. ___ luv-main mailing list -- luv-main@luv.asn.au To unsubscribe send an email to luv-main-le...@luv.asn.au

Re: Flounder Meeting Saturday 6th August 01:00UTC

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Main topic of the meeting will be SE Linux, but there will be lots of > discussion about other FOSS things and a teaser for some future security > related meetings. > > https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-aug-2022-selinux/ I

Re: What happens when ???protestware??? sabotages open source in response to current events? | SC Media

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > That is criminal behaviour and unacceptable in the free software > community. NPM and similar repositories are a bad idea from the > start. Indeed. Here was my extemporanenous comment on the matter when a friend claimed the incident

Re: Covid19

Quoting Keith Bainbridge (keithrbaugro...@gmail.com): > Thanks Rick. > > I's not ideal, but allows more of us to join in, maybe. > > So microphones off and questions are typed into the notes bit of > jitsi. A moderator asks questions when appropriate, mostly at the > end. That's certainly one

Re: Covid19

Quoting Keith Bainbridge (keithrbaugro...@gmail.com): > I have enjoyed the few on-line meets I have watched, so I'd like the > flexibility of watching on-line when I can to continue if that's not > too difficult. I gather I'm not alone here. Just to elaborate briefly on the notion of a hybrid

Re: Covid19

Good people: I sent two reactions to Russell's posting to luv-talk because I thought my comments were further from luv-main's topic mandate than was Russell's original post. They _might_ be topical enough, here; I was trying to err on the side of good netiquette. At this point, I was intending

Re: Close shave: Missing Window Manager on Ubuntu 20.04 XFCE

Quoting Rodney Brown (rdbrown...@gmail.com): > After a reboot, I lost the Window manager, so no frame, title, > minimize, maximize or close buttons. > > Lots of ineffectual thrashing around with a Ctrl-Alt-F1 console > sessions, system-ctrl session manager restarts. > > xfwm4 --replace provided

Re: Meeting 30th Sep 6pm to 8pm.

Quoting Alexar Pendashteh (h...@alexar.me): > There is no event scheduled for Thursday but nothing stops us from > having one! > > We can get online at 6pm and watch a video together about SE-Linux. We > can have a discussion in text during the play and in audio afterwards. I am hoping to join

Re: Instruction to join tonight's event (7pm on Tuesday)

Quoting Duncan Roe (duncan_...@optusnet.com.au): > duncan_...@optusnet.com.au cannot post to luv-main! This seems to be because > all > but 1 of optus's mail servers are listed on > https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check ^ Useful, thanks!

Re: Instruction to join tonight's event (7pm on Tuesday)

Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > The more recnent history of jitsi isn't promising, so it might not > even be worth considering these days. Ownership by Atlassian and > beyond. _Former_ ownership by Atlassian (2015-03-04 to 2018-10). In 2018, relevant

Re: Instruction to join tonight's event (7pm on Tuesday)

Quoting Alexar Pendashteh (h...@alexar.me): > Regarding the meetup being a pripriotry platform, I agree that it is not > the ideal solution however, our use of Meetup is solely for advertising our > events and helping new members discover us. Some other groups are using > meetup.com as their

Re: gphoto2 file size limitations

Quoting Brian May (br...@linuxpenguins.xyz): > But it is disabled by default. To enable it you need to run Windows > software. But this requires registration to download. But you cannot > register from Australia. WTF!!! Perhaps you or someone you know who has access to a commercial VPN provider

(forw) Reminder: https://meet.jit.si/ALE-NW

Just starting - Forwarded message from Rick Moen - Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 10:08:40 -0700 From: Rick Moen To: consp...@linuxmafia.com Subject: Reminder: https://meet.jit.si/ALE-NW Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already. The first LUG to respond correctly to the

(forw) Re: [conspire] CABAL meetings of the apocalypse, Saturday, Sept. 12, 4pm

[Online event described will be at 9am Sunday AEST, Melbourne time.] The first virtual meeting of CABAL, the LUG that normally meets in West Menlo Park, California (which as a reminder is one of the relatively sane parts of the USA). Thanks again to Trent W. Buck for the cool timezone-dumping

Re: Jitsi

Quoting Keith Bainbridge (keithrbaugro...@gmail.com): > Russell, Rick mentioned earlier today that you are restricting > access to meets. Should I need a password? that I haven't noticed. I can't remember what I might have said except perhaps that, on Russell's server, a room isn't available

Re: Jitsi

Quoting Keith Bainbridge (keithrbaugro...@gmail.com): > I see that my mic is registering some back-ground noise at times. > Can anybody hear that? Speaking for myself, I'm not hearing background noise in the room, only conversation among Russell, Andrew, Wen, and occasionally me. (Nick just now

Re: Jitsi

Quoting Keith Bainbridge (keithrbaugro...@gmail.com): > Evening all, particularly those chatting in the meet. I saw Russell, > Rick and 3 others in the brief time I get between dumps-out. > > You can probably see how long I Russell and a couple of others have > their mic's muted, and a couple

Re: Jitsi

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > LUV members are welcome to inspect LUV services and try to find configuration > errors. If you suspect that I may have made a mistake in access control then > test it out and let me know of any problems that occur. I doubt there are

Re: Jitsi

Quoting Keith Bainbridge (keithrbaugro...@gmail.com): > I have just enetered the meet with > > https://j.luv.asn.au/a > > after some experimenting with android jitsi app. It then worked as a > link in chromium. I'll have it running in the background from > mid-afternoon - waiting for the

Re: Jitsi

Quoting Andrew Pam (and...@sericyb.com.au): > Hmm. It mostly fails with Firefox and mostly succeeds with Chrome, so > maybe that was the problem. Even with Chrome the "Reflexive > connectivity" and "Video bandwidth" tests fail. Are there any ports I > have to open on my firewall for Jitsi?

Re: Jitsi

Quoting Keith Bainbridge (keithrbaugro...@gmail.com): > If anybody else is having trouble joining Russells meet, please try > this, as a proof that you can join a meet > > https://meet.jit.si/SBCCandSBCGeelongForums FYI, Russell and I were both successfully in https://j.luv.asn.au/a . (And then

Re: [luv-talk] LUV status

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > Thanks Rick for pointing out other video meetups. Rick if there's any > interesting Linux video meetup you plan to join please send the link to luv- > main. Will be glad to. > 2020 is a dumpster fire. I'm more depressed than usual and finding

Re: Black Lives Matter

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > https://twitter.com/BiellaColeman/status/1268988146181648388 > > Biella Coleman (who is known for her anthropological research on the Debian > community among other things) just Tweeted about DKG (ACLU staff and Debian > Developer) being beaten

Re: mailman

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959435 > > Mailman has just been removed from Debian/Unstable because it is "obsolete". > Why would it be regarded as obsolete and if so what should we replace it with? Debian-recommended

Re: Video Conferencing

Quoting Julien Goodwin (luv-li...@studio442.com.au): [Chromium:] > Yes, Google absolutely accepts changes back, I believe Microsoft have > had a bunch of things merged back in from their Edge browser. > > What level of CLA / grant etc. is required for that I don't know. Thank you, Julien.

Re: Video Conferencing

Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > Okay, I was wrong then. However, Chromium is still, in some respects > "Google property". Not sure which one gets updates first or how well > they bounce those updates back and forth. The code checkins occur at the Chromium

Re: Video Conferencing

Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > Definitely not a support of Google Chrome, but it will likely get > security patches more quickly than Chromium. This seems surprising, given that Chromium is the base code: My understanding is that Google occasionally takes

Re: Video Conferencing

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html > Bruce Schneier wrote an informative blog post about the problems with Zoom. The Citizen Lab report from two days ago, to which Schneier links, is particularly damning, e.g.,

Re: meetings

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019 Outstanding single-stop resource maintained by a qualified expert: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/ Anyway, as

Re: Running a public DNS server at home - Is this safe?

Quoting David Zhan (david.zhan.l...@gmail.com): > Hi everyone, Everyone: 'Hi!' > I am thinking about running a public DNS server (with Pi-Hole)  at > home, but not sure if that's safe. Safe against what? In the security field, we tend to use concepts like 'threat model' and 'attack surface'.

Re: upgrade

Quoting Mark Trickett (marktrick...@gmail.com): > A small query, nothing fixed, but when is Buster expected > to be released? Russell already gave you the serious answer, so I can now supply the frivolous one that doesn't help you. ;-> There are two traditional answers inside Debian Projet

Re: scsi

Quoting Andrew Greig (pushin.li...@gmail.com): > I have a SCSI scanner Epson GT7000, which I love, but occasionally in > the past I may have turned it off, and as a consequence it is not > detected at boot. In the old days when boot times were quick I would > turn it on and reboot, but boot up

Re: domain-checking tools (was: Melbourne IT - anyone have any contacts?)

Quoting brad...@northtech.us (brad...@northtech.us): > As an admin I can't say that I concur in the least - especially when > there is the choice of proxies in the form of privacy bureaus. You'll note I didn't say I agreed with the policy, just that the rationale made sense. (I expect my

Re: domain-checking tools (was: Melbourne IT - anyone have any contacts?)

Quoting Anthony (anthony-...@hogan.id.au): > The Aus approach was indeed taken due to spam considerations, trying to > limit data mining of whois records (the daily rate limiting), and renewal > scams based upon listed expiry dates (I remember reading through auDA doco > as it came into being

Re: domain-checking tools (was: Melbourne IT - anyone have any contacts?)

Quoting Anthony (anthony-...@hogan.id.au): > Australian domain whois also doesn't show expiry info. Quite. This astonishing-to-me-in-2007 fact is highlighted prominently in my referenced _Linux Gazette_ article. The domain I tested, as revealed in the article, was, in fact, luv.asn.au. (That

Re: domain-checking tools (was: Melbourne IT - anyone have any contacts?)

I wrote: > To this day, every Sunday I get e-mail via a cron job that runs > domain-check against a set of about three dozen domains (mine, > friends', and those of institutions I care about) to tell me which of > them are within 90 days of expiration (and if any are past > expiration). FYI,

domain-checking tools (was: Melbourne IT - anyone have any contacts?)

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > Does anyone know of a good way of monitoring this? I have experimented with > monitoring the output of the "whois" command, but they are quite aggressive > about blocking multiple connections from the same IP address. Yes, albeit some TLDs have

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > I haven't cited a "variety of ills" because there aren't a variety of them. > There's just one: assuming that drive device names will remain the same on > every reboot, every time, forever. That one ill can result in a multitude of > problems, but they

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > i.e. label collisions are not an accident, they're the inevitable result of > poor planning. Sure. > The trouble is that unless you want to use UUIDs there isn't any alternative. Well, speak for yourself. I've been using /dev/sdX (never used IDE ;->

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > Fortunately, you can assign labels to partitions or filesystems when > you create them (or add one later), and these are much easier to read > and use. Care to learn hour to make a Linux system go belly-up in a way field-proven to puzzle Linux experts

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > The debian installer (and presumably ubuntu and others) let you switch to > another console tty with Alt-F2, Alt-F3 etc to get a root shell. You can > manually create the partitions you want, then switch back to tty1 to install > on the partitions you

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Quoting George Georgakis (luv-...@tripleg.net.au): > On 20/05/2018 12:54 PM, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > > > ISTR that mdadm.conf can be fully reconsructed from that stored > > metadata, even. > > mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf ?

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Quoting Andrew Greig (pushin.li...@gmail.com): > Thanks Rick, > I travelled so long without problems that technology has oustripped my > understanding. It is 18 years on Linux for me and around 17.5 since you > informed me (graciously) about the bad habit of cross posting. So nice to > hear from

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Quoting Andrew Pam (and...@sericyb.com.au): > You really do want to use UUIDs for the RAID members, though. You want > to make sure the drives get assembled into the array correctly > regardless of how they're connected or enumerated. mdadm and the md driver don't rely on /dev/sdX assignments

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

Quoting Andrew Pam (and...@sericyb.com.au): > Note that if you do this the drive names can still change when you plug > the other two disks back in. Correction: Merely plugging in discs changes _no_ /dev/sdX device assignments. Changing what's plugged in at boot time often does. > That's why

Re: host name - domain name

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > The domain itself needs, at minimum, an SOA record, two or more NS records, > and an MX record. [...] This is very good, Craig. (I would want to also include appropriate SPF TXT RRs.) I tried for a while to draft a 'how to write a zonefile' tutorial

Re: GMail + Email Client

Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > I think that TB was "almost" orphaned, but it hasn't been; still it is > not getting much real support from Mozilla whom seem to care only about > their 57+ browser Firefox gets them revenue. Thunderbird doesn't. It's

Re: Network Security Device

Quoting Robert Brown (rebr...@exemail.com.au): > So maybe I will re-frame my original question. > > Not being a developer or other IT professional, what software > package could be put together on say, a Raspberry Pi or other > device, that could be a watchdog against invasion/intrusion of our >

Re: Network Security Device

Quoting Robert Brown (rebr...@exemail.com.au): > Does this: > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akita/akita-instant-privacy-for-smart-homes > > do anything special that is not already available in linux software? Like permitting you to DoS yourself? ;-> Linux software does famously

Re: Intel CPUs

Quoting Steve Roylance (royla...@corplink.com.au): > hi > > this email is quoted on /. and credited to this list > > https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/01/05/142201/when-f00f-bug-hit-20-years-ago-intel-reacted-the-same-way And, you know, the previous time I was on Slashdot, it was on

Re: Intel CPUs

Quoting Rohan McLeod (r...@jeack.com.au): > Well it seems Intel has been very naughty > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intels_spin_the_registers_annotations/ Intel has a long history of trying to dissemble and misdirect their way out of paying for grave CPU flaws. Remember the

Re: device naming (was Re: Ethernet port setup part2)

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Sometimes you just have to do such things. We all make sacrifices to get by. ;-> > I run a server that has as its main purpose preparing SD card images for > embedded PCs. The images are made by the people who install the embedded PCs >

Re: device naming (was Re: Ethernet port setup part2)

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > І've had it happen to me on several occasions - both disks and NICs. I of course believe you, and am reading the details you provide below this with interest. Thank you. > The most common cause in my experience wasn't adding or removing drives/NICs, >

Re: Ethernet port setup part2

I just remembered: > I vaguely recall that a system swapped eth0 and eth1 when replacing a > 2.0.x kernel with a 2.2.x kernel (or 2.4 to 2.6, or something like > that). Which didn't surprise me much, and is why God made rc files > editable. > > And ifrename is cool. I've encountered _zero_

Re: Ethernet port setup part2

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > You can't rely on the kernel assigning any name to any particular network > interface - same as you can't rely on a hard disk getting the same /dev/sdX > name on every reboot. For the record, over decades of administering Linux servers, I've just never

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

I wrote: > Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > > > What rights do the Linux kernel coders have in this regard? > > Copyright title conferring ownership of the abstract right of > distribution of derivative works. > > If you're going to go around alleging that in-kernel

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > What rights do the Linux kernel coders have in this regard? Copyright title conferring ownership of the abstract right of distribution of derivative works. If you're going to go around alleging that in-kernel filesystems are not derivative

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Oracle has not chosen to persue any action against Canonical. More to the point, so far, so have the Linux kernel coders. But the copyright violation is real, and Canonical risk either set of stakeholders filing and getting them severely

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Well in the real world ZFS on Ubuntu is working well. I prefer Debian but > Ubuntu has better support for ZFS due to different legal advice. Different and quite clearly wrong, in my view. (No, I'm not an attorney, but I have been a major

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Last time I checked XFS had no support for reducing the size of a > filesystem. Correct. > But if Stratis is going to use multiple XFS filesystems to compare > with the multiple ZFS mount points or BTRFS subvols then it will be a >

Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

Quoting Steve Roylance (royla...@corplink.com.au): > the announcement is at > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.4_Release_Notes-Deprecated_Functionality.html Maybe Stratis after interim use of XFS.

Re: Error when Installing Debian 8

Quoting zlin...@virginbroadband.com.au (zlin...@virginbroadband.com.au): > Now it actually works OK, the ramdisk image was installed correctly. > What it has done though it prevents the kernel from being upgraded. > I have sort of got around this by compiling my own kernel (I do this > as a

Re: splitting a diff

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > I have a diff file that has changes to multiple source files that I > want to split up for sending upstream. Is there a good tool for > splitting this? > > The ideal would be something that takes a list of source files on the > command line, and

Re: LUV DNS

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > As we had 2 servers still operating correctly at all times users would not > have noticed. I can offer LUV two more authoritative nameservers, if you don't mind them being across an ocean (meteor-proofing ;-> ): ns1.linuxmafia.com, IP

Re: Fwd: Debian 7 - Update error

Quoting Brian May (br...@linuxpenguins.xyz): > There are multiple GUIs out there, you haven't said which one you are > using. Indeed, since he could be using KPackageKit, or kpackage, or synaptic, or Apper, or update-manager, or aptitude (ncurses full-screen mode), or who knows what-all, and

Re: Debian 7 - Update error

Quoting Peter Ross (petross...@gmail.com): > > So, why are you suddenly changing the subject to 'a stereotypical office > > worker', Peter? > > Because the desktop is aiming for the average user who is not an admin. Well, while the desktop is toiling away at that endeavour, I'm busy telling the

Re: Debian 7 - Update error

Quoting Peter Ross (petross...@gmail.com): > In my case my "rpm and FreeBSD infested brain" was on holidays and > was about to update the only "apt-get driven" system I have around at > the moment. So, what is the command line tool I have to learn? The one that would suffice is apt-get. It

Re: Debian 7 - Update error

Quoting Peter Ross (petross...@gmail.com): > Hi all, > > answered the question myself: Do not use the GUI;-) > > "apt-get clean; apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" worked. > > Sad, a bit, that "novice users" still need the command line, it seems. Reasons it is best to avoid relying on

Re: Web performance

I wrote: > Basically this is a query of the form 'Please suggest open source > alternatives to proprietary package X', which generically (1) > presupposes intimate knowledge of proprietary package X and (2) > implicitly assumes that the pinnacle of success would be replicating > package X's

Re: Web performance

Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > Is there a good FOSS system for monitoring web performance? Please define 'Web performance'. > I've just seen a demo of Dynatrace which is impressive and it would be > good if there was a free alternative. Basically this is a query of the form

Re: Virtualbox

Quoting Glenn McIntosh (neonsig...@meme.net.au): > They have a dual licensing system, where VirtualBox itself is GPL, but > the extensions are under a closed licence. The extensions including > things like USB support for the guest. USB 2.0 support. (USB 1.1 is built into the GPLed core code.)

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): [init systems:] > the majority had no say in it, and probably aren't capable of switching > to something else if systemd doesn't meet their needs. They can follow recipes, though. There's a continuum from people who can fully maintain software through

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > I don't approve content-free hate comments. There were no comments about > actual issues so none were approved. I believe you, of course. Yeah, that's genuinely weird. I really have no idea why a bunch of deplorable types (sorry, joke

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Yet occasionally people do such things. I see you're back to ignoring my point. Ah well. > > Also, poorly socialised nerds don't perceive NSA as taking their toys > > away the way (e.g.) entitlement-crazed debian-user subscribers do when >

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > More complex things have been done in Debian before. Getting the full GNOME > functionality without systemd might not be possible, but getting the > functionality that most people want (IE what has been commonly available > before

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Yes, you can do that. It's much easier than creating a new web site > for a new "distribution" which seems to be Debian with a few packages > changed. Indeed, some of the Devuan people were rather upset with me. ;-> (A bunch of them had

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > People who have chosen systemd have spent a lot of time making it work better > and solving some real problems that other init systems have had for many > years. People who want to choose SysVInit have spent a lot of time flaming > people

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Quoting Andrew Pam (and...@sericyb.com.au): > On 29/09/16 16:12, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > >ftp://linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/ed-is-the-standard-text-editor > > I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't. > > Cheers, > Andrew {laughs} But what does your _na

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

Quoting Paul van den Bergen (paul.vandenber...@gmail.com): > Fanbois huh? vi or emacs? ftp://linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/ed-is-the-standard-text-editor (For some reason, many Yanks cannot seem to locate my humour directory. I blame the education system -- lamentable problems spelling the

Re: pdns security update (was Re: NBN satelite setup)

Oh, meant to add: > > - powerdns is serious overkill for my needs (home server with only a > >few domains). > > Yeah. $WORK did a massive conversion of hundreds of domains from BIND9 > to PowerDNS Authoritative Server, and there were various problems along > the way. I'm not convinced it

Re: pdns security update (was Re: NBN satelite setup)

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:12:07AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > > _But_ that is completely unrelated to pdnsd. > > ah, my mistake. i assumed he was talking about powerdns. No worries. ;-> > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html

Re: pdns security update (was Re: NBN satelite setup)

Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 07:10:43AM +1000, zlin...@virginbroadband.com.au > wrote: > > I am using pdnsd > > FYI, I saw this DSA come in a few days ago: > > https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3664 > > Debian Security Advisory > DSA-3664-1 pdns

Re: NBN satelite setup

Quoting zlin...@virginbroadband.com.au (zlin...@virginbroadband.com.au): > I am using pdnsd as a local cacheing from a sugestion from Russell > Coker, this turned out to be a real excellent sugestion as it sped > up page loading no end (this was on dialup). I'm sure it would -- just from the

Re: outage

Quoting Brian May (br...@linuxpenguins.xyz): > A classic example is the "signal failure" excuse that is vastly overused > by Metro trains and prior companies. We rarely hear what went wrong, > unless it results in being able to divert blame (rightly or wrongly) > onto somebody else (e.g. possum

Re: Brother scanner driver

Quoting Rohan McLeod (r...@jeack.com.au): > Bob via luv-main wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have set a box for a friend running Kubuntu 16.04 with a brother > > MF7680DW multifunction printer/scanner attached via usb. > > Are you sure that model number is correct ; google can't seem to find it ! I

Re: Anyone for Telstra Air

Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > I don't use ANY Telstra services and I most definitely NEVER use public > WiFi, as I believe that NEITHER can be trusted; that includes Telstra > themselves of course! One alternative is to use networks but not trust them.

Re: Who owns Android ?

Quoting Ben McGinnes (b...@adversary.org): > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:54:41AM +1000, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > > > Libertarianism is all about liberty for the super-rich and serfdom > > for people like us. > > > For instance my lot, Pirate Party > Australia... Yay, Pirate Party!

Re: Impending Crypto Monoculture

Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > letsencrypt perhaps? It works very well. It (https://letsencrypt.org/, a recently invented, automated, no-charge CA) solves the one specific problem it set out to solve, well. And it's commendably well intended & benevolent.

Re: Impending Crypto Monoculture

Quoting Chris Samuel (ch...@csamuel.org): > It's an interesting situation, though I think I'd trust Dan a bit more than I > trust the USG now. :-) I trust Dan a _great_ deal more than I do the USG, and that's after he sort-of-almost-threatened a bogus lawsuit against me 2001 for committing

Re: simple CLI MUA for GPG

Quoting luv-main@luv.asn.au (luv-main@luv.asn.au): > On 12.04.16 11:01, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > > > > In August, I wrote [link] about the NSA's plans to move to > > quantum-resistant > > algorithms for its own cryptographic needs. > > Rick, > &g

Re: simple CLI MUA for GPG

Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentb...@gmail.com): > My (armchair, inexpert) impression is that this isn't a reasonable > inference. > > It'd be like saying "the wheel feel off my bicycle, therefore all > wheeled vehicles are suspect". Oh, I certainly wasn't saying 'doubt everything', as unfocussed

Re: simple CLI MUA for GPG

Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au): > The NIST problem is specific to /their/ earlier recommendations; and no, > I don't think you can trust NIST. For me specifically as opposed to most people here, the subversion of NIST was particularly irritating because it's

Re: simple CLI MUA for GPG

Quoting Glenn McIntosh (neonsig...@meme.net.au): > Ecrypt have published a couple of reports on keysizes. A 512bit EC > keysize is roughly equivalent to a 15424 bit RSA keysize. > http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/ecrypt2/documents/D.SPA.20.pdf > > These are really just a statement of the mathematical

  1   2   >