Re: [PLUG] VPN anyone?

2016-01-01 Thread Russell Johnson
I believe what the OP is talking about is a privacy VPN. There are several companies that are selling VPN services so that you can anonymize your connection. -Russ > On Jan 1, 2016, at 17:57, Ishak Micheil wrote: > > Unless I missed it above would you be willing to

Re: [PLUG] I'm going to build a laptop..

2016-01-01 Thread Russell Senior
> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom writes: Keith> Security, CPU, etc? I don't know of any CPU that is "better" for Keith> security, and if one had special features for that, the kernel Keith> would need to support those features. I would love a CPU with Keith> byte-counting

Re: [PLUG] VPN anyone?

2016-01-01 Thread Louis Kowolowski
I’d suggest starting here (https://www.privacytools.io/) if any of your concerns about VPN are related to privacy. > On Dec 31, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Vedanta Teacher > wrote: > > Greetings, > > For the purposes of safety, security and anonymity I was thinking of >

Re: [PLUG] VPN anyone?

2016-01-01 Thread Neal
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Russell Johnson wrote: > I believe what the OP is talking about is a privacy VPN. There are several > companies that are selling VPN services so that you can anonymize your > connection. That's my belief too. I get the heebie jeebies thinking

Re: [PLUG] VPN anyone?

2016-01-01 Thread Ishak Micheil
Ah. Thanks for clarification Russ. On Jan 1, 2016 18:10, "Russell Johnson" wrote: > > I believe what the OP is talking about is a privacy VPN. There are several companies that are selling VPN services so that you can anonymize your connection. > > -Russ > > > On Jan 1, 2016, at

Re: [PLUG] I'm going to build a laptop..

2016-01-01 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:38:05PM -0800, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > Everyone, > > After some deliberation I've decided to build my own *laptop* in the new > year and install Linux on a virgin HD. I did have some questions: Laptops can be modified, but building a laptop from scratch is not

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I used 'umount -l' to get rid of it. Right after that is when I got the: > [410083.768178] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sr0 John, That makes sense. The umount man page has this description for the '-l' option: "-l

Re: [PLUG] VPN anyone?

2016-01-01 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 22:15:46 -0800 "John Bartley K7AAY j...@503bartley.com" dijo: >StackSocial.com has a $19/3 year offer for VPN Unlimited I found >irresistible. Their support techs were knowledgable, same-day >responsive, and nice. They have an abundance of non-Five

Re: [PLUG] Optical drive driving me crazy

2016-01-01 Thread John Jason Jordan
I finally got to a point this morning when I could reboot. After doing so everything is back to normal - after closing the drive door with media in it the media appears, although not mounted, and dmesg no longer ends in the dreaded "inode busy" message. While rebooting solves the problem, all