There's a fundamental issue that is dependent on physics and how atoms and
molecules move about inside of materials that has to do with CPUs. And that is
that the only way to get more power is either raise the clock speed, or
recompile software with higher CPU flags turned on which pushes more
Chromebook:
https://www.quantulum.co.uk/blog/linux-on-a-chromebook/
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Eric House
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2024 10:14 AM
To: p...@pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Seeking something between Raspberry Pi and NUC
I do a lot of traveling where a
Keep in mind that many if not all are merely resellers. I think ENOM is the
largest actual Registrar and TUCOWS is the #2.
A giveaway is if you register a domain name with a "Registrar" and select the
"use your default nameservers" or some such, and the IP addresses of the
nameservers resolve
Absolutely I second this, in fact I'm typing this on an HP Elitebook that I
bought off least 2 years ago for around $300.
The one caution I'd have is don't get a giant screen. Instead buy a dock like
this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Docking-Multiport-DisplayPort-Ethernet-Charging/dp/B0BM49XNJ3
To be fair the 2003 version of Word didn't have all the Nanny State
spyware-report-to-Microsoft stuff in it the current versions do.
"The fact that GW provides the requested features today is moot, because
tomorrow those features could be removed or changed rendering your conclusion
incorrect."
It would be interesting to know if anyone ever tried building Snort3 for that
box.
It seems as though you are unable to use opkg with the QorIQ platform and that
Any apps must be compiled into the image before it's written to the SD card.
At least
Per this:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/howto-in
We used to have customers buying the Linksys BFR-41 routers to use on their DSL
line and those pieces of crap would do the same god dammed thing. But of
course the customers would blame us and claim our DSL service was slow. It
took the loss of probably 4-5 customers before I caught on to wha
There's tools in quemu to convert a VirtualBox VM to the qcow2 format.
If anyone is interested I'd be happy to post a complete set of instructions for
going from bare metal to Ubuntu 24.04 server,
Running KVM, Copilot, and virt-manager.
I've used Copilot to create a Windows 11 Pro guest VM under
I don't think you needed a printer driver for WP for DOS only WP for Windows.
For the DOS version you just needed an HP printer and select Laserjet Plus or
whatever on a parallel port from the DOS version.
If you are running it under 16 bit compatibility mode in W2K, just install the
generic pr
switches to battery. That's really not ideal and can be a problem
> > for these "Power Stations." I did buy the Anker SOLIX Home Power
> > Panel which is an automatic transfer switch and have yet to install
> > that which might improve the situation but I wanted t
Spendy buggers!
I suspect a "power station" is just a renamed UPS with $300 added to the price!
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Tomas Kuchta
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 12:45 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: [PLUG] Li-Po power station as ups
Bunch of times we
That wouldn't be a good gift for a low income child since the child's family
does NOT have the money to keep Apple supplied with cash. It's like giving
a new Mercedes to a poor person who needs a car, they can't even afford the
clothes needed to be allowed to step on the Mercedes dealership proper
Any browser based on the Chromium engine can only display a max of 6 stream
windows and most modern security cameras are outputting in H.264 mpeg video
format of which Chromium does not have an encoder built in. However, there are
builds of Chromium out there that have that codec added and will
Rich, you are a candidate for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Compile it yourself and you are off to the races.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2024 7:54 AM
T
So does Lady Gaga:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LadyGaga/comments/16gu3q5/13_years_ago_today_lady_gaga_wore_a_meat_dress_to/
That there's malWEARlol
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Jake Bottero
Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2024 10:25 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject:
This is what I get:
Generated directory is
=
compver: 24.0.4.0 x86-64 (Apr 12 2024 12:32:49)
Product folder
qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect t
Could not connect to any X display.
Hell with that shit. If they can't run from the command line then s
the LO developers to duplicate
Ted
-----Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Ted Mittelstaedt
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 9:45 AM
To: 'Portland Linux/Unix Group'
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods
Hmm looks like the list does not permit attachm
Hmm looks like the list does not permit attachments?
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Ted Mittelstaedt
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 9:44 AM
To: 'Portland Linux/Unix Group'
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods
Is this what you are a
Is this what you are after?
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 9:36 AM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods
On Sat, 4 May 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Open it in excel
Which entry there's a lot of links on that page
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 9:36 AM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Password protected .xlsx; cannot save as .ods
On Sat, 4 May 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt
Open it in excel and do a file save as an OpenDoc spreadsheet. (*.ods)
If this is a publicly accessible spreadsheet with no private data in it just
email me the URL and I'll send it back.
There might also be online xls to ods converters as well
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Beh
Well they use Whitworth bolts and drive on the wrong side of the road so that
tracks...
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Dick Steffens
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2024 10:23 PM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released
On 4/28/24 22:14, Ted
Well it seems that they are eschewing spellcheck:
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS also enables frame pointers by default on all 64-bit
architectures so that performance engineers have ready access to accurate
and complete >flame< graphs as they profile their systems for
troubleshooting and _optimisation_.
Altho
That's cool but dammit, I'm still waiting for my Jetson's flying car.lol
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 4:57 AM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Voyager 1 ... END of Radio silence (was: Radio silence since
Apr
around complaining about that but still
using all this social media crap are humorous hypocrisy at best.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 23:47 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> This is because of a fundamental misunderstanding of how cell phone
> apps like whazzupapp work.
>
> I would bet mone
This is because of a fundamental misunderstanding of how cell phone apps like
whazzupapp work.
I would bet money you are NOT seeing this "latency" when you make a phone call
from your whatsapp to another whatsapp on some other cell phone. It's only
when you are sending instant messages.
Let m
Ah but I suspect in all of your supervision of employees you never had an
employee who was under contract from the Russian military, and probably being
paid millions of rubles or whatever they are using there, at the same time you
were supervising them, who's job was to pwn the project for his a
I also appreciate the heads-up on this as I literally do have better things to
do than spend an hour every day reviewing security exploit mailing lists. 😉
Coming from a FreeBSD background this is why I have never liked the "yum
install" and apt-get" things that the Linux userbase take for grante
Hi All,
Here's one for the disk experts:
I've got a server that I built a few years ago from Ubuntu 16.04
The server has 4 physical disks in it. It has one of those "software RAID"
cards in it so when I built it, I only installed 4 drives and put the 2
pairs into mirrors using the raid
" corporate power over government regulatory action to protect consumers rights"
Ah well NOW yer getting nasty! I was being NICE. And incidentally they are
both - greedy dictator wannabes who are also whining pansies.
Probably should continue this on plug-talk, BTW.
Sorry but BOTH groups have
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/03/oregon-passes-expansive-ri
ght-to-repair-law-defying-tech-industry-concerns.html
I notice Google and Android are not out there whining like pansies.
I think this needs to be on the docket as a speakers topic once the bill is
signed. Do we
MC the problem I'm seeing that Ben has is NOT solvable by most of the advice
he's gotten.
He has a team of programmers overseas who have a very specific customized
environment that they created that they have a process of applying to the
vanilla Ubuntu installs he's putting on hardware.
I can
g
On Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 at 10:50 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> Are these 800 servers virtual or physical?
Physical.
> Are the physical servers home-built or commercial from a major brand (HP
> Proliant, etc.)
Home-built... but often with parts from major brands. Or copy cat
Are these 800 servers virtual or physical?
Are the physical servers home-built or commercial from a major brand (HP
Proliant, etc.)
Are the servers all the same brand and model or are they a mismash of pieces
from different makers?
Are the servers yours or owned by customers? That is, if they
Admin: Backup of critical files only for no more than a year and less than
that if large data amounts over a TB
User: "why can't you restore my file from 1976 I needd it!"
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 1:44
st and have Spectrum as my ISP but I still use my comcast
email thru Thunderbird. And so my Thunderbird is configured to contact the
comcast server even when I am on the Internet via Spectrum. So it is most
likely your first translation, I think?
-Mark
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Beh
Actually the big problem isn't tech vendors of SOHO routers doing this. They
have actually already been doing this for years. The WAY they have been doing
it in the past has not in general been much of a problem either.
For example most of the Linksys Exxx routers auto-update themselves to the
cale.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Bill Barry
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2024 12:29 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Thanks! Re: Ziply fiber - fixed IP address?
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 2:12 PM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> No, because you are r
G On Behalf Of Bill Barry
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:34 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Thanks! Re: Ziply fiber - fixed IP address?
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 1:04 PM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> I used a free dynamic DNS provider for my customers who were not
>
Mark,
If you sent this message using markcasi...@comcast.net from your Thunderbird
account then your T-bird is likely configured to login to Comcast and make
an auth-SMTP connection to it.
So in that case the error message would be coming from Comcast's mailserver,
it is essentially saying "Hey m
I used a free dynamic DNS provider for my customers who were not running their
own mailserver and too small to want to spend the money on a static IP, and
then they could just use the community openvpn client to remote into their
network, instead of crapping up their computers with additional sp
Well it's a hack and a half and I'm sure if I show it I'll be sent to Linux
hell, but I could do a presentation on "Bandwidth monitoring OpenWRT and
DD-WRT routers with MRTG"
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Michael Dexter
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2024 3:25 PM
To: Portl
It depends on what you are needing to do.
If you are installing new cabling then the cheap $50 from Ebay will work:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/145198295238
If you are working with old existing work then you need a TDR. The reason is
because IF the cable you are trying to find with a toner is sho
whether you are plugged into a transceiver,
or your remote, etc. We've been happy with it. I am sure you can find non-fluke
for less, but when you are measuring things, it is nice, and an inferential leg
up, to know you are probably measuring them correctly.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 10:34 AM T
The problem with a TDR is it's only good if you shorted or opened a cable. My
problem has always been pair reversals on building cables and a TDR is useless
for that. I have a Pentascanner that I used to use for this kind of thing and
the only use I got out of it was discovering a split pair o
Just reboot the system and hit the Pause key during POST. The system will sit
frozen at the BIOS screen drawing power and then you can pull A/C power out of
the wall. It the UPS dies no problem.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of American Citizen
Sent: Saturday, January 2
Note that when Office 365 is first installed on a PC it creates a directory for
itself in Program Files.
A remote attacker who gets non-admin access to a PC can read the creation date
of that directory to see when it was installed.
For example on my laptop in Add Remove programs it shows MS Off
s more valuable. But if it's a
numbers game then no.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 11:16 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> I think just about all those phishing emails that are trying to
> distribute phishing viruses are distributing viruses written for
> windows, because Windows is written
I think just about all those phishing emails that are trying to distribute
phishing viruses are distributing viruses written for windows, because
Windows is written so poorly that you have to be administrator on a windows
system to do even basic user tasks like connecting to a printer.
They know
up
Subject: Re: [PLUG] virus check methods
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 02:41 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> How in the world is a regular non-root user going to install a rootkit
> on a Linux workstation?.
>
Not patched CVEs, zero day exploits, establishing network connection to LAN and
finding
How in the world is a regular non-root user going to install a rootkit on a
Linux workstation?
Just askin!
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of MC_Sequoia
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 10:34 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] virus check methods
"what d
Does anyone even write Linux viruses anymore?
I thought the days of the Morris Internet Worm were long gone.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of mo
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 3:05 PM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] virus check methods
1 of my vendors had th
> > >
> > > I am hoping that telling the kernel, as per the suggestions here,
> > > to unpower it that the controller goes back to "sleep mode". Also
> > > it would be convenient if can I bring the device backup with out
> > > unplugging it.
x Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] How to script USB device detection
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 01:00 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> I've messed with this before trying to troubleshoot USB cams.
>
> It's highly dependent on the USB hardware. Not all USB devices
> implement "low power&quo
I've messed with this before trying to troubleshoot USB cams.
It's highly dependent on the USB hardware. Not all USB devices implement "low
power" mode.
Your best shot is to get a good USB 4 port hub - not a crappy one - a good one
and the good ones
Implement power control and can cut power to
One of the problems of having up to date backups wis the prevalence of online
backup solutions out there.
The problem, Russell, is that if an organization has online backups, and a
cyber criminal gets a ransomeware injected, the modern ransomeware can reach
out over the Internet and destroy the
He first one is a known issue which is why professional image modifiers will
run their modded images through an analog stage (take a picture of the
screen with a film camera then scan the developed picture)
The second one is pure bullcrap. That story is a modification of a story
from the spy vs s
This is standard a lot of spam filters just automatically blacklist blocks of
dynamically assigned IP addresses. Charter uses specific
IP subnets for DHCP and Spamhaus ZEN likely knows about those subnets. Charter
might have even reported them to Spamhaus.
Ted
-Original Message-
From:
Find a spare SSD, download the win10 install USB ISO, temporarily swap out the
hard disk with the SSD, install windows, update bios, replace old disk and wipe
the SSD for some other use
The BIOS update almost certainly does nothing to the machine that helps you
with Mint on it. Most of the BIO
Free Geek is not what it was.
They used to have all these programs to grant computers to low income
individuals and school kids and those were all shut down during COVID
Their programs to grant to non-profits are also closed.
The only thing they have left is the online ebay store and if you are
k Steffens
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2023 5:03 PM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] UPS shopping
On 12/30/23 16:00, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> The problem with generators is that the frequency is dependent on how
> fast the rotor spins and the second you put an electrical load
Wrap about 20-30 turns of wire around one leg of the AC power line and
connect both sides to a scope and you have an inductive powerline
oscilloscope. Much safer than resistors and capacitors.
Also:
$32.00 off Amazon:
MINIWARE Pocket Oscilloscope DS211, Portable Oscilloscope Mini Size
Handheld,
The problem with generators is that the frequency is dependent on how fast the
rotor spins and the second you put an electrical load on
A generator you increase the magnetic field resistance to the armature and the
generator slows down.
When the generator is the size of a barn at Bonneville Dam
APC BackUPS are modified sine wave and there is no issue with them and your
garden variety Dell or HP desktop, but of course you are taking your chances
with anything high quality on them.
APC SmartUPSes are pure sine wave. They are more expensive.
APC makes all of this very clear in their doc
No they won't since like most things there is still a need - it's just a
need by professionals who know what the hell they are doing.
So yeah, the El-Crapo BackUPSes that look like a messed up power strip with
micro-sized batteries and no management ports that keep
The PC up long enough for the us
25, 2023 at 21:58 Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> Yeah although I'll provide the perspective opposite from the "Nanny State"
> perspective which is:
>
> "AFAIK it's still just a toy model rocket"
>
> As kids we used to do all kinds of fun and games with t
Yeah although I'll provide the perspective opposite from the "Nanny State"
perspective which is:
"AFAIK it's still just a toy model rocket"
As kids we used to do all kinds of fun and games with these that would fall
into The Christmas Story classification of
"You'll put your eye out"
I saw a k
> Yes: using a website to launch the rocket.
I know, really! They are supposed to use a Habitrrail that releases a rodent
that runs through a maze and triggers a button as a food reward Website?
How simple!
(clearly you are under the impression model rocketry is all about launching
r
I built a number of these things in my youth, timer based and so on. Th
wireless and pi are of course unnecessary, as was the digital countdown display
I used in my youth.
The big thing that kills these attempts is the power to the ignitor. Ignitors
need a lot more power than just 2-4a. Whi
You might be interested in this - the useful stuff starts at 8:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh3OA3WMJng
For these, you have to bake the old tapes in an oven to read them, then run
them through a cleaning machine.
There's a busy community that works at preserving the data from these. Pret
I have to wonder where they get the cartridges to drill? Tonerbuyer.com
doesn't pay anything for the 98A cartridge and won't pay for you to ship it
to them, and Office depot makes you buy $10 in purchase per month in order
to qualify for $2 back in rewards for every ink or toner cartridge you
recy
I have 4 HP Laserjet 4+ printers myself. One of them fell off the table it was
on, on to some papers and the internals are a bit wedged and now it jams on
every print, the other 3 have jamming problems as well and
Print reliably only off the manual feeder only. I also have the duplexer and
Pos
The HP Laserjet 4+ uses #98A cartridge not #48
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Michael Ewan
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 11:15 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Cc: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] HP Laserjet 4M+ with duplexer free to good home
It seems
Are you SURE that they changed it due to other language requirements?
H a quick check on Google and I think this is the REAL reason:
"...Here's another horrifying example, an aspect of American culture,
the-the pussification, the continued. the continued pussification of the
American Unix
I suspect a clue to your issue is in your post, - see the following:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/639540/how-much-memory-can-a-32-bit-process-access-on-a-64-bit-operating-system
I suspect that somewhere in that mess you might have a program that's not 64
bit clean.
Just for grins try def
Yes, pretty much any 7200rpm drive with a decent warranty is what you want
for a desktop with a mag media drive.
The bottom of the barrel are the 5400rpm drives and the only place those
should have ever been used is in laptops.
I have bought them in the past for people with NASes that are inadequ
system should
just boot up on the new disk once you change cables
Once running you can expand the last partition with growpart:
https://www.linuxscrew.com/linux-growpart-fill-disk
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 6:45 A
Is it a single drive that's the destination or multiple drives in an array?
Single mag media drives that do that - what I do is assume they are bad -
backup all data on them - then if I am not trusting the software I dd zeros
over the entire drive, then run SMART to see what the drive reports.
SS
I'd like a copy of your text2ps.c There are multiple copies of it floating
around as versions of it are included in the tcm utility/utilities and the hp
filters that can be installed in Ubuntu. The original program was just put out
in the Public Domain and I suspect a lot of people have app
: Sunday, November 19, 2023 11:52 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] email services supporting IMAP
On Sun, 19 Nov 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Interesting. In 1993 the emerging NSFnet was not permitted to be
> connected to commercial entities. You must have had a speci
: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] email services supporting IMAP
On Sat, 18 Nov 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Ziply has no restrictions on individuals at home getting business
> accounts, Rich.
That's true. I've run my business from my house for 30 years and have
Ooops
For example the top of the line Netgear Nighthawk series only runs at 1
s/gigabit/gigahertz/
clock speed. That kills throughput.
Ted
2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Or, you can do what I do and get a static IP and run your own mail server.
Ted,
FWIW, unless Ziply changed their policy only business domains can be
assigned a static IP address (for $10/month); they don't support static IP
addresses for personal domains.
Rich
Or, you can do what I do and get a static IP and run your own mail server.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Kevin Williams
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 6:56 PM
To: PLUG ; Galen Seitz ; plug
Subject: Re: [PLUG] email services supporting IMAP
Correction:
$20/yr for Runb
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 7:20 PM
>There may be ways to rate-limit your bulk data request, so it doesn't
trigger their rate-limits, and looks more like an obsessed human user. >I
hypothesize; there are web provider proce
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 8:57 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Moving 15 GB ... in 1970
>a) the bandwidth your plan claims does not factor in the speed at which the
>rest of the internet will delive
You can allegedly copy ntbackup.exe, ntmsapi.dll and vssapi.dll from some
convenient Windows XP system to any later version of Windows and use that to
open *.bkf files. I've not tried it myself.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Wednesday, November 8,
SD card to floppy adapter before.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath
One of the most niche things I have seen in person.
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023, 8:37 AM Ted Mittelstaedt
wrote:
> It's not QUITE this bad but it is pretty bad.
>
> I use USB external hard disk docs and disks for
It's not QUITE this bad but it is pretty bad.
I use USB external hard disk docs and disks for backup. Once you get a
COMPATIBLE device then backup over USB is reliable.
But there are many dock models out there that won't work with different
motherboards or will work a few times then stop worki
he technology to her, as
she's convinced the sound is better, LOL.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of John Jason Jordan
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2023 10:28 AM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Formatting confusion SOLVED
On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:00:48 -0700
&
SD cards and USB sticks are often used in things like cameras, stereos,
music players, TV,s etc. which have no mechanism (brought out to the user,
at any rate) for issuing an "eject" or "unmount" command (even should the
user actually want to do this which most of them don't, being completely
cluel
>I suppose if Cisco switches to h.265 for video conferencing, this will be all
>me a moot point.
They are a founding member of AOM and already use a software version of AV1 in
Webex:
https://blog.webex.com/engineering/the-av1-video-codec-comes-to-webex/
If MPAA-LA had actually worked with the
The date is tonight is that right?
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 11:53 AM
To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] REMINDER: March PLUG Meeting: Anatomy of a Mailing List Meltdown
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting
the specific error message from Brave is "The video could not be
loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is
not supported." This is in fact a duplicate of the Firefox error message on
ALL CPUs.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: American Cit
Try this:
Go to the following in Firefox:
https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h265
Click Download on the first one - you will get the codec error
If your CPU is Kaby Lake, try that on Chrome.
If not, do it from the Debian-compiled Chromium off the link I posted and it
will work.
Yout
st on Ubuntu)
Firefox, OTOH, does NOT support H.265 on EITHER a pre or post Kaby Lake CPU
Ted
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Ted Mittelstaedt
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 11:51 AM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Cc: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Can so
-Original Message-
From: PLUG On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 12:06 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Remote work on downed server ( Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG
Meeting: Anatomy of a Mailing List Meltdown )
>In this hypothetical exchange
On Ubuntu, ffmpeg and it's libraries are not installed by default, and Firefox
is installed.
However, even installing via apt install ffmpeg later, Firefox does not use
those libraries, despite the fact
that the installed ffmpeg is indeed compiled with --enable-libx265 and
/usr/lib/libx265.so.1
I understand it but try explaining that to Reolink.
What it boils down to for many is either you lose $1000 on buying a new
catalytic converter when the skanks cut yours off and run off with it, or you
fork over $300 in cameras and cabling you do yourself, plus some hours on an
older PC, to get
The problem with that is that the assessment itself is biased. If a business
owner is doing the assessment they tend to bias against cost.
But, what happens if a customer calls at the very moment your receptionist's PC
is crashed, and she says "sorry I can't help my computer is down"
And that c
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