Re: [PLUG] Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD and/or a Live CD I could use?

2016-05-11 Thread John Jason Jordan 
On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:59:27 -0700
Vedanta Teacher  dijo:

>  Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD for civilian use
> and/or a >Live CD set?

In anticipation of seeing you at the Clinic I decided to download the
latest OpenBSD, which I understand is 5.9. I have great download
bandwidth at home and it costs me nothing, and downloading an ISO for a
distro takes only a few minutes. Once I have the ISO(s) on my computer
I can burn them to optical media or a USB drive for you. From there
others can help sort out the difficulties you are having with the
installation.

However, I am finding it difficult to find the appropriate ISO file.
Apparently OpenBSD does not encourage the use of torrents. And the
FTP pages on their mirrors are inscrutable. At least I cannot scrute
them.

Can someone point me in the right direction?
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Re: [PLUG] Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD and/or a Live CD I could use?

2016-05-11 Thread Vedanta Teacher 
Neal,

   Thank you, I'll try that too. I did have one CD that only had a [
install59.iso ]
file. I'll try what you suggested in the morning.

  I feel like I need Star Trek music or something...

Paul W.

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Neal  wrote:

> Wild guess here but you should only have the .iso image of the install
> CD on the computer you're using to burn the CD. You need to burn the
> .iso file to the CD _as an ISO image_, not burn the .iso file itself.
> Usually CD burning software gives you the option, and Windows even has
> it built-in, or did last time I checked, but right-clicking on the
> file in file explorer.
>
> Once you burn the image to the CD the right way there will be,
> guessing again, hundreds or thousands of files on the CD itself, not
> one big multi-hundred megabyte .iso file.
>
> I hope this is of use to you and good luck!
>
> NealS
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Re: [PLUG] Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD and/or a Live CD I could use?

2016-05-11 Thread Neal 
Wild guess here but you should only have the .iso image of the install
CD on the computer you're using to burn the CD. You need to burn the
.iso file to the CD _as an ISO image_, not burn the .iso file itself.
Usually CD burning software gives you the option, and Windows even has
it built-in, or did last time I checked, but right-clicking on the
file in file explorer.

Once you burn the image to the CD the right way there will be,
guessing again, hundreds or thousands of files on the CD itself, not
one big multi-hundred megabyte .iso file.

I hope this is of use to you and good luck!

NealS
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Re: [PLUG] Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD and/or a Live CD I could use?

2016-05-11 Thread Vedanta Teacher 
David,

  Indeed, I poured through the Man pages & I have a copy of
Absolute OpenBSD and I followed the instructions as closely
as I could.

  I was just pondering if I should install 5.8 & Xenocara (I have
a second post on Xenocara) , see how it works and take it
from there. I did still want to install of the proper dependencies.

Thank You,

Paul W.

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:44 PM, David  wrote:

> On 05/11/2016 06:59 PM, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD for civilian use
> and/or a
> > Live CD set?
> >
> > I have a relatively new Dell Insperon lap top W/6 gigs RAM and 1 TB HDD .
> > 3000 series,
> > model 3558., Intel i3-5051U so, I'm 99.9%+ sure its an AMD64 type of
> chip.
> >
> > #0: I don't have a Live CD so I tried to download the 5.9 version from a
> > HTTP mirror
> > in San Francisco ( http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/ ). I
> > burned it to
> > a CD but it didn't work. I've gone all of the way from just trying :
> > install59.iso
> > to burning and trying all of the images on the:
> > Index of/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64
> > but nothing worked.
>
>
> 
>
> Unfortunately, I have no (or at least not recent) experience with
> installation of OpenBSD.
>
> Have you consulted the README and INSTALL.amd64 files? (No snarkiness
> intended here.)
>
> 
> 
>
> It appears there are some "gotcha" issues with this release per the
> README, and the second file gives you the information to use
> install59.iso to create the necessary bootable media.
>
> I don't recall the exact cli command using dd to create the CD, or I'd
> pass that on here. If you have other software burning software, you can
> use that, or the dd command is easy to locate with your favorite search
> engine if needed.
>
> There are also directions to create a bootable USB as well.
>
> Hopefully this gets you going in the right direction.
>
> dafr
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[PLUG] Installing OpenBSD & Xenocara ...

2016-05-11 Thread Vedanta Teacher 
Everyone,

  I had forgotten, I did also want to install Xenocara,  the graphical
face for OpenBSD. I am learning terminal commands but it
will take me a while to get up to speed but I am looking forward
to it.

Thank You,

Paul W.
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Re: [PLUG] Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD and/or a Live CD I could use?

2016-05-11 Thread David 
On 05/11/2016 06:59 PM, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD for civilian use and/or a
> Live CD set?
>
> I have a relatively new Dell Insperon lap top W/6 gigs RAM and 1 TB HDD .
> 3000 series,
> model 3558., Intel i3-5051U so, I'm 99.9%+ sure its an AMD64 type of chip.
>
> #0: I don't have a Live CD so I tried to download the 5.9 version from a
> HTTP mirror
> in San Francisco ( http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/ ). I
> burned it to
> a CD but it didn't work. I've gone all of the way from just trying :
> install59.iso
> to burning and trying all of the images on the:
> Index of/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64
> but nothing worked.




Unfortunately, I have no (or at least not recent) experience with 
installation of OpenBSD.

Have you consulted the README and INSTALL.amd64 files? (No snarkiness 
intended here.)




It appears there are some "gotcha" issues with this release per the 
README, and the second file gives you the information to use 
install59.iso to create the necessary bootable media.

I don't recall the exact cli command using dd to create the CD, or I'd 
pass that on here. If you have other software burning software, you can 
use that, or the dd command is easy to locate with your favorite search 
engine if needed.

There are also directions to create a bootable USB as well.

Hopefully this gets you going in the right direction.

dafr

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[PLUG] Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD and/or a Live CD I could use?

2016-05-11 Thread Vedanta Teacher 
Greetings,

  Does anyone have experience installing OpenBSD for civilian use and/or a
Live CD set?

I have a relatively new Dell Insperon lap top W/6 gigs RAM and 1 TB HDD .
3000 series,
model 3558., Intel i3-5051U so, I'm 99.9%+ sure its an AMD64 type of chip.

#0: I don't have a Live CD so I tried to download the 5.9 version from a
HTTP mirror
in San Francisco ( http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/ ). I
burned it to
a CD but it didn't work. I've gone all of the way from just trying :
install59.iso
to burning and trying all of the images on the:
Index of/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64
but nothing worked.

#1: I do have other live CD's so I popped the one for OpenSUSE in and the
message
"Welcome to Grub" popped up. So I have the UEFI/BIOS configured correctly.
(Blessings to Dell for having such awesome support pages & BIOS settings-
IMHO they are much better that ASUS or HP .)

#2: I'm thinking that I'm pulling & burning the wrong images from HTTP but
I just
don't have enough experience on pulling things off of mirror sites and
making them
work.

#3: I will be at the clinic Sunday with the machine & an extra machine to
burn
images. I'm open to ideas. *But, Don't Do It For Me *, just show me how. If
you
do it for me I'll never learn.

Finally, before everybody flames me just remember. Unlike people that sit on
a distro for years and never change, I'm always willing to push the limits
of my
knowledge, take chances and learn new things. And everybody was a newbie
at some point, I'm just a newbie @ OpenBSD.

Blessings,
Paul W.
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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread King Beowulf 
On 05/11/2016 04:15 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> An underlying question: What should I be reading?
> 
> I wish a blackbox which:
> 
> 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be 
> considered]
> A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian

This one is your black box: Drop WinXP and use newest kernel Debian (or
Slackware but I am biased).  It has all the network tools you need
either already installed or in the repo. Run WinXP as a Qemu VM and
remote in via TigerVNC...if you must.  Use qemu to run multiple versions
of whatever

Connect it to a gigabit switch and a bunch of USB hubs.  Check the
motherboard specs: although you might only see 2 or 4 USB ports sticking
out the back, most motherboards in the past 5 yrs or so have another 1
or 2 USB headers that are unused (each header gets you 2 ports).

If you have extra PCI or PCI-x slots, you can add $10 NIC cards that you
can bridge with Linux metwork tools.

You can keep t connected to a monitor/kb and still use it as a
workstation.

CAVEAT: if the current CPU does not support virtualization (Intel VT-x
or AMD-V), buy a nice quad core (or more) box wit one of the newer i3 or
i5 CPUs, or AMD, with an ASUS or MSI motherboard.

> B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is 
> running SeaMonkey.

Seamonkey is available in Linux distros; I use it in Slackware on
occasion.

>Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is 
> as a portable.

So, dump WinXP and convert to Linux.

> C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the 
> HDD as many as
>ten times in one week ;/
> D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
> 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection 
> of flash dives
> and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.

Any Linux box can be set up as a file server via NFS and SAMBA for File
sharing.  I cast out Win* so now only use NFS to transfer files between
linux boxes here.

> 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot 
> Z915 connected
I am not sure on Linux driver support; the spec sheet says yes.

> via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really 
> wanted a USB cell network
> modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't 
> try assaulting me with
> their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data 
> plan. this connection
> shall be protected by a firewall.

iptables/netfilter is provided by every Linux distro.  There are a
number of GUI tools to make admin easier.

> 
> How broke will I be?

< $100 for 8-16 port gigabit switch, powered USB hubs, Cat5 cables.
Maybe some more DRAM for (A) above.  $400-600 if you build a nice server
box - less if you snag a used one

I don't recommend a ARM CPU such as Raspberry Pi since these single
board computers can be I/O limited.

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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Larry Brigman 
Remember he is in outer Missouri, not Portland metro.
On May 11, 2016 10:13 AM, "Keith Lofstrom"  wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:51:45AM -0700, Larry Brigman wrote:
> > All of 1) can be handled by a network switch.  Network switches can be
> > chained together to allow more connections.
>
> Surplus stores.  Plenty of perfectly good 10/100 8 port
> (even 24 and 32 ports) switches out there, replaced by
> gigabit switches.  There's a whole shelf of them at
> ecoBinary in Beaverton.  For my own office, I scored a
> 32 port gigabit switch with a broken power supply that
> I knew how to fix.
>
> I use the huge bandwidth for backups every night, but
> normal users less obsessive about backup can easily
> get by with 100 mbps.
>
> Keith
>
> --
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[PLUG] OS alternative to CONNECT:Direct Secure+

2016-05-11 Thread Daniel Herrington 
All,

I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with this tool? There is a suggestion
by the our vendor to use it, but it simply looks like a secure ftp solution
that IBM is charging for. I'm investigating what features CONNECT offers,
but wondering if anyone has had first hand experience with it and knows
other options.

thanks,

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[PLUG] Clinic on Sunday

2016-05-11 Thread wes 
Reminder, the Linux Clinic is this Sunday. Bring your ailing systems or
questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful
direction.

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[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Clinic on Sunday

2016-05-11 Thread wes 
Reminder, the Linux Clinic is this Sunday. Bring your ailing systems or
questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a useful
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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett 
On 5/11/2016 11:19 AM, Nat Taylor wrote:
> pfSense might be worth looking into.  It won't run on the pi though, you'd
> need an old desktop or a router with a x86 or x86_64 in it.  That's the pro
> solution.  Alpine Linux would, however, work on the pi.

It may be some connectivity Issues I'm experiencing [A Baudot TTY 
would be a speed demon by comparison], but pfsense.org looks so 
bad you'd think I designed ir ;/

Going down for system glub glu



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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Keith Lofstrom 
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:51:45AM -0700, Larry Brigman wrote:
> All of 1) can be handled by a network switch.  Network switches can be
> chained together to allow more connections.

Surplus stores.  Plenty of perfectly good 10/100 8 port
(even 24 and 32 ports) switches out there, replaced by
gigabit switches.  There's a whole shelf of them at
ecoBinary in Beaverton.  For my own office, I scored a
32 port gigabit switch with a broken power supply that
I knew how to fix.

I use the huge bandwidth for backups every night, but
normal users less obsessive about backup can easily
get by with 100 mbps.

Keith

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[PLUG] Explanation for mupdf warning?

2016-05-11 Thread Rich Shepard 
   Viewing a PDF document using mupdf shows this warning on the virtual
console: 'warning: premature end of data in flate filter'.

   My web search turned up on hits on what this really means. Can anyone here
explain it to me?

Just curious,

Rich
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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Nat Taylor 
"And some sort of DNS server" - Damn you autocorrect

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Nat Taylor  wrote:

> And some sort of end server.  How about running openwrt on it?
> http://computers.tutsplus.com/articles/installing-openwrt-on-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-new-home-firewall--mac-55984
> I'm sure there are plenty of software solutions, that's just the first or
> second one I found (the first one did Tor and openvpn over wifi didn't
> think that as your spec)
>
> On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Nat Taylor  > wrote:
>
>> You'd need a USB Ethernet adapter for two ports on the pi.  I'd get the
>> pi 3 and turn off the wifi
>>
>> On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Richard Owlett  wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/11/2016 10:00 AM, Nat Taylor wrote:
>>> > a $35 raspberry pi with a 4 port switch connected to it ($ 17 on
>>> amazon, or
>>> > wherever)
>>> > Maybe run ubuntu snappy core with a squid proxy in docker?
>>>
>>> Never thought of a Pi. Will have to research accessories
>>> (including enclosures optimally with integral power supply) to
>>> match vague mental image that "Thingy(TM)".
>>> Triggered thought that I should revisit Voyage Linux.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Richard Owlett 
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> An underlying question: What should I be reading?
>>> >>
>>> >> I wish a blackbox which:
>>> >>
>>> >> 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be
>>> >> considered]
>>> >>  A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian
>>> >>  B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is
>>> >> running SeaMonkey.
>>> >> Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is
>>> >> as a portable.
>>> >>  C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the
>>> >> HDD as many as
>>> >> ten times in one week ;/
>>> >>  D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
>>> >> 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection
>>> >> of flash dives
>>> >>  and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.
>>> >> 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot
>>> >> Z915 connected
>>> >>  via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really
>>> >> wanted a USB cell network
>>> >>  modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't
>>> >> try assaulting me with
>>> >>  their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data
>>> >> plan. this connection
>>> >>  shall be protected by a firewall.
>>> >>
>>> >> How broke will I be?
>>> >> TIA
>>> >>
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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Nat Taylor 
And some sort of end server.  How about running openwrt on it?
http://computers.tutsplus.com/articles/installing-openwrt-on-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-new-home-firewall--mac-55984
I'm sure there are plenty of software solutions, that's just the first or
second one I found (the first one did Tor and openvpn over wifi didn't
think that as your spec)

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Nat Taylor  wrote:

> You'd need a USB Ethernet adapter for two ports on the pi.  I'd get the pi
> 3 and turn off the wifi
>
> On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Richard Owlett  > wrote:
>
>> On 5/11/2016 10:00 AM, Nat Taylor wrote:
>> > a $35 raspberry pi with a 4 port switch connected to it ($ 17 on
>> amazon, or
>> > wherever)
>> > Maybe run ubuntu snappy core with a squid proxy in docker?
>>
>> Never thought of a Pi. Will have to research accessories
>> (including enclosures optimally with integral power supply) to
>> match vague mental image that "Thingy(TM)".
>> Triggered thought that I should revisit Voyage Linux.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Richard Owlett 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> An underlying question: What should I be reading?
>> >>
>> >> I wish a blackbox which:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be
>> >> considered]
>> >>  A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian
>> >>  B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is
>> >> running SeaMonkey.
>> >> Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is
>> >> as a portable.
>> >>  C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the
>> >> HDD as many as
>> >> ten times in one week ;/
>> >>  D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
>> >> 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection
>> >> of flash dives
>> >>  and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.
>> >> 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot
>> >> Z915 connected
>> >>  via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really
>> >> wanted a USB cell network
>> >>  modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't
>> >> try assaulting me with
>> >>  their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data
>> >> plan. this connection
>> >>  shall be protected by a firewall.
>> >>
>> >> How broke will I be?
>> >> TIA
>> >>
>> >>
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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett 
On 5/11/2016 10:00 AM, Nat Taylor wrote:
> a $35 raspberry pi with a 4 port switch connected to it ($ 17 on amazon, or
> wherever)
> Maybe run ubuntu snappy core with a squid proxy in docker?

Never thought of a Pi. Will have to research accessories 
(including enclosures optimally with integral power supply) to 
match vague mental image that "Thingy(TM)".
Triggered thought that I should revisit Voyage Linux.
Thanks.





>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Richard Owlett  wrote:
>
>> An underlying question: What should I be reading?
>>
>> I wish a blackbox which:
>>
>> 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be
>> considered]
>>  A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian
>>  B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is
>> running SeaMonkey.
>> Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is
>> as a portable.
>>  C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the
>> HDD as many as
>> ten times in one week ;/
>>  D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
>> 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection
>> of flash dives
>>  and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.
>> 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot
>> Z915 connected
>>  via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really
>> wanted a USB cell network
>>  modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't
>> try assaulting me with
>>  their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data
>> plan. this connection
>>  shall be protected by a firewall.
>>
>> How broke will I be?
>> TIA
>>
>>
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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett 
On 5/11/2016 9:51 AM, Larry Brigman wrote:
> All of 1) can be handled by a network switch.  Network switches can be
> chained together to allow more connections.
> 2) and 3) now required a wireless router something like the one I am using
> ASUS RT-AC66R.
> It has two USB ports and the option to handle alternate routing for a 3/4G
> modem.  You can turn off the wifi.
> If you only have four computers you could just get the ASUS device and be
> done but the temporary devices would be over the four
> port limit of the router.

Sorry, no sail ;/
My specmanship skills must have atrophied more than I thought.
I had wished to explicitely exclude that solution.

Nobody ever said I was "normal". [No comment on silings' comments.]


>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Richard Owlett  wrote:
>
>> An underlying question: What should I be reading?
>>
>> I wish a blackbox which:
>>
>> 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be
>> considered]
>>  A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian
>>  B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is
>> running SeaMonkey.
>> Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is
>> as a portable.
>>  C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the
>> HDD as many as
>> ten times in one week ;/
>>  D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
>> 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection
>> of flash dives
>>  and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.
>> 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot
>> Z915 connected
>>  via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really
>> wanted a USB cell network
>>  modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't
>> try assaulting me with
>>  their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data
>> plan. this connection
>>  shall be protected by a firewall.
>>
>> How broke will I be?
>> TIA
>>
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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Nat Taylor 
a $35 raspberry pi with a 4 port switch connected to it ($ 17 on amazon, or
wherever)
Maybe run ubuntu snappy core with a squid proxy in docker?

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Richard Owlett  wrote:

> An underlying question: What should I be reading?
>
> I wish a blackbox which:
>
> 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be
> considered]
> A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian
> B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is
> running SeaMonkey.
>Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is
> as a portable.
> C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the
> HDD as many as
>ten times in one week ;/
> D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
> 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection
> of flash dives
> and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.
> 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot
> Z915 connected
> via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really
> wanted a USB cell network
> modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't
> try assaulting me with
> their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data
> plan. this connection
> shall be protected by a firewall.
>
> How broke will I be?
> TIA
>
>
>
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Re: [PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Larry Brigman 
All of 1) can be handled by a network switch.  Network switches can be
chained together to allow more connections.
2) and 3) now required a wireless router something like the one I am using
ASUS RT-AC66R.
It has two USB ports and the option to handle alternate routing for a 3/4G
modem.  You can turn off the wifi.
If you only have four computers you could just get the ASUS device and be
done but the temporary devices would be over the four
port limit of the router.

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Richard Owlett  wrote:

> An underlying question: What should I be reading?
>
> I wish a blackbox which:
>
> 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be
> considered]
> A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian
> B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is
> running SeaMonkey.
>Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is
> as a portable.
> C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the
> HDD as many as
>ten times in one week ;/
> D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
> 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection
> of flash dives
> and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.
> 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot
> Z915 connected
> via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really
> wanted a USB cell network
> modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't
> try assaulting me with
> their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data
> plan. this connection
> shall be protected by a firewall.
>
> How broke will I be?
> TIA
>
>
>
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[PLUG] Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett 
An underlying question: What should I be reading?

I wish a blackbox which:

1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be 
considered]
A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian
B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is 
running SeaMonkey.
   Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is 
as a portable.
C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the 
HDD as many as
   ten times in one week ;/
D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection 
of flash dives
and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.
3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot 
Z915 connected
via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really 
wanted a USB cell network
modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't 
try assaulting me with
their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data 
plan. this connection
shall be protected by a firewall.

How broke will I be?
TIA



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